Blog entries

Never Quit - Ottawa River Run

PBC Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:34:51 +0100

Saturday June 25th was another cloudy day with the threat of rain. Again the rain held off as we had a lazy start to the Ottawa River Run. With guests from the military in many of the boats we had an awesome run from Petawawa to Swisha and back to Pembroke for lunch at Joey’s Seafood Restaurant. We changed up who was riding in the boats to give our guests an opportunity to experience a different ride after lunch. We headed back up the river and back into...

June 11th Team United Fighting for a Cure Charity Poker Run

PBC Admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:20:33 +0100

Saturday June 11th was cloudy and overcast with threat of rain but thankfully it held off.

We had an excellent day of boating with a BBQ lunch at Starport Marina served by Era 67. It was a short leg back into Orillia and some dockside socializing before we all went to spruce up for dinner.

Dinner was a delicious Prime Rib Buffet at 16 Front Street followed by our awards and auctions.

Winning ...

PBCE Makes some headlines in the Financial Post

Carl McBride — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:21:02 +0100

Just a short piece about the club, the lifestyle and our upcoming events were published in Friday's financial post.

At their leisure

Karen Mazurkewich, Carrie Tait, Nicholas Van Praet and Karen Burshtein, Financial Post · Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010

Polo and poker run boating regattas. In Canada? Our monied class can relax with the best of them. Never mind the disappointing job figures, which indicate an economy still in rehab, when it comes to chilling in the ...

Marine exhaust Legislation

Carl McBride — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:56:17 +0100

With exhaust noise becoming more of a concern among activists and waterfront residents, we had done some additional research in an effort to clarify issues of compliance and legality. The information below was found on a Government of Canada website. Below is the link to the source.

http://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2010/2010-05-12/html/sor-dors91-eng.html#REFa

Vol. 144, No. 10 — May 12, 2010

Registration

SOR/2010-91 April 29, 2010

PBC In The Media

Carl McBride — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:16:39 +0100

They say there is no such thing as bad press. Here is some that we had received on the weekend.

A Channel News lead with our story

http://www.anewsvideo.ca/videos/223/saturday-june-12-2010-a-news-at-6-webcast

Here is an article that was published in the Orillia Packet.

http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2620383

The Captain's Club

Carl McBride — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:51:09 +0100

Introducing the Captains Club

The Captains Club has been created to recognize our members and sponsors for further supporting our mission of promoting safe and responsible performance boating through education, awareness, and organized boating events, while contributing to the local communities through charitable fund-raising activities and the support of the performance boating community.

It is through their generous contributions and passionate achievements in suppor...