Campion Marine has been building high-performance sport boats and cruisers for 36 years. The company, at its facility in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, builds the Allante line of sport boats and cruisers, the Explorer sport utility water craft, Chase high-performance boats and the Svfara wake/surf towboats. They manufacture more than 37 models and 48 variations of boats ranging from 16 to 30 feet in length and market and sell their boats in more than 30 countries.
“I have wanted an ecologically friendly boat for some time, but the right combination has not been available until now.” says Hayhoe. “I have spent a lot of summers on the Muskoka lakes and I am impressed with Campion’s vision towards a more ecologically responsible boating experience. This will be an exciting project and I look forward to picking up my Campion bio boat from Campbell’s Landing and getting out on Lake Muskoka.” Gary Campbell of Campbell’s Landing Marina states, “We are extremely excited about this project.” Campbell’s Landing is located in Gravenhurst, Ontario on Lake Muskoka.
You may remember our post about the Kontiki Expedition, but I bet you haven’t heard of Plastiki. A man named David de Rothschild plans to sail a boat made entirely of recyclable plastics across the Pacific Ocean…
“In Summer 2009, David de Rothschild and a crew of experts, scientists and creatives will sail 12,000 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney in a boat made out of plastic bottles and recycled waste products. This epic voyage is named The Plastiki taking inspiration from Thor Heyerdal’s 1947 expedition The Kontiki.”
If I ever get to a point in my life where I no longer need to work a 9 to 5, I’ll spend my non fishing time learning to build things. To start, I’d love to take some classes to learn all about marine mechanics. With a little bit of time and know-how I could make something like this!
Well folks, its time to get back to our regularly scheduled updates! I’ll start with this crazy video our friend Martin linked in the forums. If you have ever doubted the importance of a life jacket and a kill switch, just watch this!
My good friend Martin Szomolanyi and I started our morning launching out of Humber Bay and taking a very cold but also very fast boat ride out to the islands. We started fishing from the East end to the West end covering the inner channels and the outer city facing shorelines. We spotted a ton of pike in only our first few hours there, most pike would follow right up to the boat and then turn away. We even spotted pike swimming right past our boat without a care in the world.
It wasn’t long until we starting hooking into them, first I hooked into a small pike that completely missed my lure and ended up getting his mouth wrapped up in a fluorocarbon leader and just refused to let go. Once I got him close enough to the boat and notice my xrap was swimming care free about an inch away from the fish I quickly grabbed him behind the head and pulled him out of the water.
My good friend Martin Szomolanyi and I started our morning launching out of Humber Bay and taking a very cold but also very fast boat ride out to the islands. We started fishing from the East end to the West end covering the inner channels and the outer city facing shorelines. We spotted a ton [...]
