Boating News
Bute Island stern ties preserve natural beauty and improve shoreline boater safety
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD), with technical, materials and funding assistance from the BC Marine Parks Forever Society, installed 8 stern tie pins and chains to improve anchoring safety for boaters at Bute Island Regional Park in Ladysmith Harbour.
New Mooring Buoys at D’Arcy Island
Two new mooring buoys have been installed in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve in the vicinity of D’Arcy Island which lies between Sidney and Victoria in Haro Strait.Read more…
The Economic Effect of Recreational Boating
Did you know that recreational boating is not only about having fun but also a very powerful economic factor in BC?
A National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) Canada study found that recreational boating injected $1.3 billion into B.C.’s economy in 2016 on revenues of $2.2 billion, and employed nearly 17,000 British Columbians.
The New Waggoner Cruising Guide
lots of great information and an update on the Marine Parks Forever Society’s activities
We wait eagerly every year for the new Waggoner Cruising Guide: Lots of important information for boaters, annually updated and interesting articles. This year’s edition includes a chapter on the Marine Parks Forever Society’s activities for the BC Marine Parks, including locations for the 186 stern-tie pins. And you can also find how you can contribute to the work of MPFS!
British Columbia’s Marine Parks Make Boat-Camping Easy
The first time I heard the expression “marine park” I pictured some shallow water area with lots of starfish. A marine park was a chunk of water, right? Fancifully, I imagined under-water interpretive signs, that one could read, I suppose, if they could hold their breath long enough.
Wrong. BC’s marine parks and protected areas reflect the biodiversity of the coast’s terrestrial and marine ecosystems. From the southern Gulf Islands to the archipelagos and deep fjords of the Great Bear Rainforest, marine parks occupy the most stunning locations in a sea of stunning. Just as our terrestrial parks enshrine the uber-remarkable, so do our marine parks. And like conventional parks, they enable us to camp in nature’s finest.