All Power and Sail Squadron members as well as the public are invited to attend our AGM. Refreshments will be available.
The Parry Sound Inn and Suites is located at 292 Louisa Street, immediately behind the Starbucks.
Any member interested in joining the Bridge team is highly encouraged to contact me. We are urgently in need of people who care about boating safety. Previous experience with Bridge activities is not necessary.
See you there.
Joe Grasso
commander@parrysoundboating.ca
Photo courtesy Chris McDonald
You are invited to join in celebrating Canada Day at the Parry Sound Waterfront!
For more than forty years, the Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron, now known as CanBoat Parry Sound, has held a sailpast of large and small power and sail vessels immediately before the Town fireworks on Canada Day. You are invited to be part of it.
It is enormous fun to take part in the sailpast because of the tremendous, enthusiastic reaction from onlookers on shore waiting for the fireworks.
If you would like to be part of the show, please email Canboatsailpast@gmail.com to let us know your name, vessel name and length overall.
Details: on Tuesday July 1, CANADA DAY,
1. string up a few extra or coloured lights on your boat, leave them turned OFF
2. put on your life jacket and navigation lights
3. meet us “offstage”, south of Rosetta Island at 8:30PM (2030) to form up
4. monitor channel 16 but tune to VHF Channel 6, for parade coordination from BLUE PEARL, Fleet Captain Larry Woolner
5. come onstage— in view of the town dock — and LIGHT UP your vessel
6. parade in line astern behind the Police boat and Blue Pearl, along the route which goes near the river mouth and slowly along the length of the town dock.
7. enjoy the tumultuous applause!
8. go out in the Sound, to be seen by Belvedere Heights residents, or return to your dock, to watch the fireworks at 10 PM (2200) Please follow VHF directions to ensure the Island Queen has clear passage to return to the dock.
It is a spectacular evening and you can be an important part of it.
Please join us!
Photo courtesy Chris McDonald
You are invited to join in celebrating Canada Day at the Parry Sound Waterfront! For more than forty years, the Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron has held a sailpast of large and small power and sail vessels immediately before the Town fireworks on Canada Day. You are invited to be part of it.
It is enormous fun to take part in the sailpast because of the tremendous, enthusiastic reaction from onlookers on shore waiting for the fireworks.
If you would like to be part of the show, please email parrysoundsailpast@gmail.com to let us know your name, vessel name and length overall.
Details: on Monday July 1, CANADA DAY,
It is a spectacular evening and you can be an important part of it. Please join us!
The sailpast is normally held on the Canada Day weekend in July but was delayed to September 1st. due to the environmental condition. The event was one of the very best in years!
The photographs are courtesy of Thom Morrissey.
Thanks to Marianne King-Wilson for organizing the event.
The Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron Annual General Meeting will be held at the Museum on Tower Hill in Parry Sound on April 22, 2017 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. There will be more information as the meeting date approaches. We can be reached at info@parrysoundboating.ca.
Early April sunset on the Big Sound. Pretty, but not yet boating season.
The GeoBayCaching program we introduced a couple of years ago is undergoing an update and refresh. We have discovered that the cache containers we originally used were being abused by the locals, bears in at least one case, or decomposing as a result of the elements.
The new geocaches are now being built with commercial grade 4″ PVC pipe and fittings. They should stand up to the elements. We’ve added a red band to the caches that capture the sense of our local Red Rock Island Lighthouse.
Three of the new geocaches have been deployed by Commander John Mason in the past week. The new geocaches are located on The Pancakes, Franklin Island and Windsor Island. The idea of the GeoBayCache program is to encourage people to get out and explore, not play hide-and-seek. The locations of most of the geocaches are sufficiently out-of-the-way that there is no need to ‘hide’ them once you get close.
If you get out to a location and can’t find the geocache, please let us know (communications@parrysoundboating.ca). Here’s hoping that the geocaches don’t become collector items.
The New Power and Sail Squadron Geocaches
Canada will celebrate its 150th anniversary next year. As we approach that special birthday, Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron, invites boaters to prepare now.
Celebrate the First of July (149) by joining our Christmas in July Sail Past. Decorate your power boat like a lighted Christmas present or your sailboat like a Christmas tree and join us. You don’t have to be a member of CPS to participate, just have a boat.
Decorate your boat and join us behind Rosetta Island at 9:15 on July 1 – Canada Day.
Contact John Mason, 705.342.1315, or masonj@vianet.ca, for more information.
The Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron hosted the Voyageur District Power and Sail Squadron annual general meeting in Parry Sound this past weekend. A reception was held at the Parry Sound Area Museum on Tower Hill Friday evening, followed by the Voyageur District AGM Saturday morning at the Charles W. Stockey Centre. The Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron AGM was held Saturday afternoon.
The following Officers were elected to the Bridge of the Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron for 2106-2017:
Voyageur District Commander Elizabeth Appleton finally figures out what to do about the Parry Sound Power and Sail Squadron Commander. Commander John Mason raises his hand in protest. ;=)
A two evening VHF instruction course with examination will be offered May 3rd and 10th, 2016, at Lakeland Long Term Care facility (beside the West Parry Sound District Hospital in Parry Sound).
The complete package with CD covers VHF marine radio and Digital Selective Calling (DSC). The course will prepare you for the Restricted Operator Certificate (Maritime) and DSC Endorsement exams that will be administered on the second night with temporary licenses issued that evening for people successfully completing the exams.
To legally operate a maritime radio as an individual or business you need this certificate. The Maritime Radio course teaches emergency radio procedures as well as everyday operating techniques.
Register with John Mason in advance so course materials can be ordered.
705.342.1315, or masonj@vianet.ca.
Cost: Active Canadian Power and Sail Squadron members $80. Non-members $90.
Note: Students must come ready to show that they have memorized the Phonetic Alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charley… It is available online. Here is a link to get you started.
State of the Sound – March 3, 2016. Not Quite Ready for Boating.
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