by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Mar 15, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
For several years now, ever since I’ve lived near English Bay, I’ve been noticing this odd sight out on the water. Once in a while, there’s this Viking ship out there. That’s right, with that characteristic striped orange sail, oars and what...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Mar 8, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
WHAT WE READ “Desolation Island”, the fourth book in Irish writer Patrick O’Brian’s naval series, set in the age of Lord Nelson. O’Brian chronicles the adventures of eccentric ship surgeon/spy Stephen Maturin and his buddy, Captain Jack...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Feb 16, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s been a while since I waxed poetic about ports. Last year I went on at some length about Port Metro Vancouver, how it’s this engine of Canadian economic growth, moving monumental quantities of trade in an understated, almost hum drum way. An even...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Jan 18, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Seaplanes are boats that fly. How cool is that?! On that basis alone I’m going to make it a goal for 2012 to fly in one. Heck, I might even get behind the controls, or at least get to sit in the cockpit. Or maybe I missed out on that one after turning ten…...
by Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait | Jan 10, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s been over 60 years since the last crossing between West Van’s Dundarave pier and the Vancouver Wharf, yet its memory and talk of its resurrection live on. In fact, it’s always been a bit of a surprise and disappointment to me that there...
