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New 10 Products Whale Watching in Newfoundland PLUS Flag Etiquette Mobile Devices CYA Insert Antique and Classic Boats Summer Show Roundup August 2011 $5.95 CDN CANADIANYACHTING.CA VANTAGE POINT By Elizabeth A. Kerr CANADIAN YACHTING AUGUST 2011 PUBLISHER Elizabeth A Kerr 416-258-9948 • [email protected] Invite a Friend to MANAGING EDITOR Andy Adams 416-574-7313 • [email protected] ART DIRECTOR Allan S. Bates Go Boating Today! [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS Andy Adams, John Armstrong, John Gullick, John Morris, Greg Nicoll and Mark Stevens & Sharon-Matthews Stevens IN SUPPORT OF Discover Boating’s Welcome to the Water campaign launched this spring, Canadian Yachting is encouraging its 30,000 readers to invite a friend to go ACCOUNTING Eleanor Campbell 705-527-7666 • [email protected] boating this summer! ADVERTISING In this issue, the Galley Guys write about joining members of the Port Credit Yacht John Armstrong 905-330-4837 • [email protected] Club on a scheduled club cruise to the Toronto Islands. It didn’t take long to make Ian Gilson scores of new friends and taste a wide and creative selection of hors d’oeuvres and 905-719-5152 • [email protected] Lynn Lortie wines at the pot luck supper. When was the last time that you invited friends to share 705-527-9873 • [email protected] in the fun and excitement of being on your boat? Ross McCutcheon 604-644-0646 • [email protected] Maybe it’s us but we think that many of our friends think that we “boaters” head Greg Nicoll off to the wet and cold wilds, challenging untamed waters for a weekend full of dan - 416-620-9373 • [email protected] ger and hard work, when really most of us are relaxing and enjoying this beautiful Mary Nicoll 905-535-2866 • [email protected] sport. That’s a fact. 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Canada Post Mail Agreement 40065481 ISSN 0384-0999 Return postage guaranteed www.canadianyachting.ca 3 CONTENTS Volume 40 Issue 4 6 12 18 FEATURES 6 “Thar She Blows” Whale Watching in Newfoundland By Mark Stevens Photographs by Sharon Matthews-Stevens 12 Antique and Classic Boats Summer Show Roundup By Andy Adams 26 BOAT REVIEWS DEPARTMENTS 4 Vantage 18 Tiara 3900 Sovran 36 Galley Guys 22 Four Winns H310 42 Engine Room 53 Safety 26 Catalina 355 57 Electronics HOW TO 60 New Products 74 Crossing The Line 32 Flag Etiquette 42 Improve Ventilation 53 Light Your Way to Safety 57 Use Mobile Devices On Board SPECIAL INSERT 45 Canadian Yachting Association Cover: Chippewa, an Edwardian Gentleman’s Launch owned by Michael Vollmer! 4 Can adia n Ya chting l August 2011 “THAR SHE BLOWS!” The boat ride in Western Newfoundland's By Mark Stevens Don’t call me Ishmael. Western Brook Pond is grab-you-by-the- Photos by Sharon Matthews-Stevens throat beautiful. No apocryphal white whale for me, no leaking longboat bristling with har - poons. place in the annals of nautical tradition, pounded by waves stirred up by the pre - Our vessel is more seaworthy, our in the process ticking off an item near the vailing westerlies, rising five hundred crew and passenger manifest less motley. top of my own “bucket list.” metres from the sea. We will not kill the great leviathans that “Thar she blows!” It might be the most beautiful place in pierce the skin of the sea, we will merely For days now I have been waiting to the entire world as long as you don’t share their playground. voice those words. include stretches of the island’s south We will also share the lives of the peo - My own boat on Lake Ontario is lone - coast, or Gros Morne, or the Codroy ple of the sea on Canada’s great island, ly, but I could not resist the siren call of Valley or… skimming over waters once plied by this monolithic island, couldn’t invest the A sign here proclaims the place that Basque and Portuguese fishermen, past time it would take to sail here, wasn’t suf - locals call “the end of the world” as one shores explored a thousand years ago by ficiently seaworthy even if I had the time. of Newfoundland’s best land-based, Vikings, past shores settled for hundreds I understood the appeal that lured whale-watching locations. Minke, twen - of years by French and Devonshire fisher seventy-five boats here on the 1997 ty-five-metre fin whales, humpbacks, bot - folk and Irish lured here by dreams of a Flotilla to celebrate the 500th anniversary tle nose dolphins. better life. of Cabot’s voyage, seduced another fleet So I find a bench and watch. I’m not We will cavort with whales off the in 2000 for the millennial celebration of optimistic – I can’t find my glasses when coast of Newfoundland’s St. Anthony. the Viking landing here. I’m wearing them. No blood lust here, just a quest for the So I compromised. And I wasn’t sorry. Then I see a puff of mist above the greatest show on earth. First cue came five days ago at the end water. Something black, roiling and turn - So don’t call me Ishmael. of rugged Port-au-Port Peninsula at Cape ing. The hackles on the back of my neck Then again, if events transpire as I St. George, down a dusty, rocky path stand up. I feel humbled and exhilarated hope that they shall, I will soon be shout - called “my grandfather’s trail.” at the same time. ing out a clarion call that earns me a A rust-coloured cliff juts over the seas, Then another, breaching, tail fin clear - 6 Can adia n Ya chting l August 2011 Fishing Point lighthouse, at the end of St. Anthony harbour, is last landfall before venturing into waters populated by a variety of whale species. m s i r u o T r ly visible.