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Sunday November 9, 2025, and I am sitting at my computer looking at Ottawa's first snowfall. It is early, so I am thinking that the sooner it comes, the sooner it will be spring . . . "Ya, sure! Or maybe not, you silly thing." I will keep you posted. This month, we have 13 articles for you, and I hope you will find them interesting and share with friends.
The Fishers Landing Racing Club was established by a group of young racers in 1949. Races were held in the River, in the New York River Communities of Clayton, Fishers' Landing and Ontario's Gananoque and Brockville. The popularity of the races attracted contenders from both sides of the border, the Great Lakes, and Atlantic seaboard. The open waters of the St. Lawrence River...
At first light, it appears as a shadow – silent, rising out above the River. Then, the shape resolves with steel and purpose, a freighter sliding down the St. Lawrence with impossible grace. Seven hundred feet of raw mass and structural strength, yet it moves with the quiet confidence of a heron over glassy water. The water parts without some protest, folding around the hull ...
November 11 is commemorated in both the USA and Canada. Veterans Day in the USA and Remembrance Day in Canada.
This year we were doubly proud as Mrs. Nancy Payne from Lansdowne, ON, was chosen from across Canada by the Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command as the National Silver Cross Mother. The chosen individual is the mother of a Canadian sailor, aviator or soldier...
Over two years ago, I wrote about a famous sailboat named Palawan that was anchored in the Thousand Islands. Anne and I were taking an afternoon cocktail cruise in our 21-foot center console, and there anchored by Douglas and Deer Islands was a 68-foot ketch with a very familiar shape. We motored over and I asked the crew if this dark blue ketch was formerly named
