There is so much pleasure in boating. The skills needed, to take care of a boat and to get it safely from one place to another, cannot be taken for granted. It's not always easy! The tragedies documented below testify to that. The CPS Boating Course will give you the tools to prevent some of the events pictured here. |
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 Grounded in Silva Bay (RP) |
 Near sinking: Silva Bay (RP) |
 Silva Bay claims another one: Oh dear, it's gone! (RP) |
 Under the dock at Silva Bay (RP) |
 The Finback Saga: I am looking west; what's wrong with this picture? (RP) |
 More Finback; let's see, which way is Bowen Island, and what is that black over yellow over black thing in the east?(RP) |
 Finback: and the sails are still up because....? (RP) |
 Finback: and then the luckiest people I have seen in awhile (RP) |
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 There is more to this story....(RP) Russ promises he will write about this episode - webmaster |
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 Granny Knot. What not to do. On the rocks in Silva Bay, Nov. 2008 (RP) |
 Another shot of Granny Knot (RP) |
 F.V. Zonta on the rocks by Kendrick Isle with C.G. Hovercraft June 6/09 (RP) |
 F.V. Zonta on the rocks by Kendrick Isle with C.G. Hovercraft June 6/09 (RP) |
 Oct. 14, 2009: Grounding at Law Point. Photos show removal effort (RP) |
 Grounding at Law Point 2 (RP) |
 Ondina, flying a jolly roger burgee, like several |
 other navigators who have come to grief in local waters, |
 tried to pass between Tugboat Isle and the port hand day beacon entering Silva Bay Wed. 8/11/2010.(RP) |
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 Power boat washed up in Gabriola Passage (RD) |
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Photo Credits: Russ Pearce (RP), Bob Derksen (RD); Stamp: Don Butt; Woodcut: Albrecht Dürer |
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