Day sail in a squall to Vancouver Harbour from Ladysmith, Vancouver Island to see Fireworks Festival, Celebration of Light, the world's longest running off-s...

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it's just a little bit after five in the

morning and we're all up early because

we're off to Vancouver to see the

spectacular celebration of light

ladysmith harbour is calm as we head out

so we're expecting a lot of weather look

at that

the colors coming into the sky and we

are gonna have our dawn ladysmith Harbor

has great boating facilities including

four marinas oyster harbor was its

original name back in the coal mining

days town has a beautiful heritage

downtown area and several museums terry

and mark on this beautiful 65-foot

ferrocement catch Christie's joy and she

was a joy for sure Lee ladysmith is a

gateway to some of the best sailing in

the world the Gulf violence and Georgia

Strait our timing was going to be

perfect Gabriel a passage it's really

nice and quiet in here 3com currents in

here can exceed up to 8 knots you can

also get some nasty whirlpools so you

definitely want to take this at the

right time if you haven't gone through

gabriola pass yet here's the 360 degree

for ya isn't it pretty and we were out

we hit the Georgia Street and the wind

picked up like it promised to mark

through a reef in the main just to keep

things safe

there was a gale warning and frankly the

Georgia Street usually does have some

kind of small craft warning this trade

is about 240 kilometers long and berries

and with from 18 to about 55 kilometers

Vancouver it was so cool to come into

Vancouver on a sailboat this is a busy

place actually it's the busiest port in

Canada and the busiest on the west coast

of North America this is also where I

lived in my 20s and we had fun a quick

stop at false creek views to fill er up

and we were ready to start 5 25 litres

6.6 gallons

that round building in the center is

Martello towers and it was home sweet

home for a number of years for three of

us in a one-bedroom apartment and

there's Stanley Park my favorite place

mark dropped the anchor and it was

perfect right behind the raft where the

fireworks were going to be going off

thanks for the spread Terry Cheers it's

really starting to pack up the page look

at that yes there is Sam underneath

those people they were here to check out

the celebration of light live bands kept

them entertained on shore

starting to fill up so no we're like it

was last year right

nope

c-span's Raven is a 92 foot cut that has

an impressive 5,000 horsepower so cool

how they do the water spray the Raven

has full fire fighting capabilities and

it demonstrated that to the crowd

as darkness fell the air crackled with

anticipation

there it was the Honda celebration of

light the celebration is one of

England's largest festivals and it's the

longest running offshore fireworks

competitions in the world we were here

to see the finale and it was the Walt

Disney Company I remember watching the

first one is back in nineteen ninety and

back then it was Benson & Hedges

Symphony a fire over half a million

people had come downtown and they shut

off the streets because I simply

couldn't handle anymore but hey we had

the best seats in the house how sweet is

that

it was a magical night and if you get a

chance to get out there do it on a boat

haha that was truly epic and all the

boats are taken off right away hey once

the fireworks were dead the Blue Bulls

cleared up we have the harbor to

ourselves that's even more magical if

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