Kelowna Yacht Club- Photo of the Week

Canada Day at KYC with Shona and the fireworks
Photo by Al Cotton


Randy Prost overseeing 2010 Moorage expansion.

GM Randy Prost overseeing the 2010 moorage expansion as he retires from KYC.
photo by Al Cotton

 

.Boat for Hope boarding party.

A "Boat for Hope" boarding party challenges the "Jaded Dragon" on Okanagan Lake.
Photos by Larry Levebvre

 


Serenity at KYC
Photo by Ken and Donna Good

Port Start
"Contagious" (172) demonstrates a perfect port-start during the
2010 Vernon Yacht Club United Way Charity Regatta.
Photo by Dave Simpson

Enigma June 2 2010

"Somewhere, under a Rainbow.....", "Enigma", June 2, 2010
Photo by Drew Bird

 


Commodore Bob Smith and first lady Gayleen
representing KYC at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club .

(HMCS Oriole in background)

 

Kids dont float

Thanks Canadian Tire for reminding us that "all" the kids need a PFD while on the dock.
Photo by James.


Green monster
"The Green Monster"
photo by Ken and Donna Good

 


"Just Flickering around" Photo by Al Cotton


"It isn't easy being this cute"
Photo by Janice Casling

 


"Good Ol' Canadian Girls! .. Whoo ! Whoo! "
Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images

 


False Creek , Vancouver 2010 Olympic lights.
Photo by Hans Baak.

 

The Kelowna Fire Department cleans up the KYC racing bouys for 2010 season.
Photo by Peter Currie


Carrie -ing a torch for KYC
Past Commodore Carrie Holtby carrys a torch for KYC
photo by Richard Soneff

 

 

.
Ex Kelowna Fire Chief Gerry Zimmerman carries the Olympic Torch

 


Wow!!... What KYC members are forced to do on a winter's day in the Okanagan Valley.
Photo by Valerie Cloutier, KYC's sailing coach.

 


Al Cotton's handsome Bird in a Bush

Big White Dec 27th.
KYC sailors Janice Casling and Barbara Coughlin having fun for the camera at Big White on Dec 27th.
photoshop by James.

 


Massive ice storm in Switzerland (Leman Lake) in January of 2005 . Photo credits unknown

 


Big White Mt. opened in November in the sunshine
Photo by KYC sailing coach Valerie Cloutier

 

Fall Colours: A Holiday Cactus in full bloom.
Photo by James.

 


KYC's Malcolm Whitehouse lays a wreath as part of the Remembrance Day Ceremonies at City Park.
Photo by Barbara Coughlin

 

KYC Caesar's Freezer, November 1, 2009, Photo from McDougall Rim by Don Guild

 


Big Horn Sheep watch the sailing races from the Westside Road of Okanagan Lake
Photo by Al Cotton

 

 


Joanne Maxwell showing the younger folks how to fix up the boat... , way - way up the boat....
Photo by Elaine Maxwell

Goldmember crashes and burns

"Goldmember" takes a massive blowdown at the Penticton Grand Prix Regatta.Sunday, Sept 6th
photo by ?

 

2009 Okanagan Womens Keelboat Regatta

Preparation for day one of the 2009 Women's Okanagan Keelboat Regatta
hosted by the Westbank Yacht Club, August 22, 23
Photo by Kirstin Lesosky

 


Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Time exposure photo of the Terrace Mountain fire
taken by Tim Fitzgerald just below The Rise golf course in Vernon.

 

American White Pelican and gulls over Okanagan Lake
photo by Al Cotton
White pelicans are more common in the Okanagan during the Spring and Fall migration
to and from the colony at Stum Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau, (Cannings, Birds of the Okanagan)

 



Crew of Bula Bula. Melges 24, 3rd place at Whidbey Island. (1 design fleet)

Nine Melges 24s spent the week swarming Penn Cove.
Top spot was dibbed early in the contest by Seattleite Dan Kaseler’s pTeron,
which finished the week 25 points ahead of the next closest boat.
The remaining two slots in class P5 remained a mystery until the finish of race 12. Rod Buck’s
Myst came up from Oregon to take second place, followed by Bill Checkley’s newest boat down from Canada, Bula Bula.

Melges Crew: Bill Checkley, Russell Bertrand, Danny Foster, Roger Watts (Jr.)

Flag toting Guenther Girls. (Support Crew)
Sandra, Jan & Karen

 


Day 5 of the Terrace Mountain fire N. W. of Kelowna, July 22, 2009
Photo by Jack Borno of www.theweathermine.com


The Terrace Mountain fire, N.W. of Kelowna, B.C.
Photo by Nancy Macleod


Day 1 evening of the Glenrosa fire, taken from the dock of the
Central Okanagan Sailing Association, photo by Gillian Thomson



Day 1 of the Glenrosa forest fire south-west of West Kelowna, B.C. July 18, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Photo by Jack Borno of www.theweathermine.com

link to the KYC Weather-cam

.
The "Jaded Dragon", a two-masted cat-rig on Okanagan Lake.
photos by Jill Cripwell, July 11, 2009

 


Reflections from KYC on Canada Day
Photo by Al Cotton


Kelowna celebrates Canada Day with a spectacular fireworks display from Okanagan Lake
photo by Steve Brunsden

 


Prime waterfront property home for a nesting pair of Canada Geese on South KYC breakwater.
photo by James

 


KYC Commodore Cairy Holtby honoured at 2009 Sailpast
photo by Al Cotton



Blue evening at KYC
photo by Al Cotton



KYC race statistician Barbara Coughlin crunching the numbers of
the KYC races from her hospital bed at KGH.
(She is recovering nicely from a snippy appendix )
photo by James.. May 28th.
.


The team on "Dynasty 2" skippered by George Quade of Calgary, Alberta
takes the Overall Trophy of the 2009 Blossom Time Regatta.
"Dynasty 2" is owned by KYC member and proud father Roy Quade.
(photo by Barbara Coughlin)

 


The new furniture arrives for the KYC Lounge
Photo by Al Cotton.



Photo by Al Cotton


The 2009 KYC Boat Show packs in the crowds for the weekend.
Photo by Betti Smith

 


April 18, 2009, KYC Boat and Leisure show displays a trio of Eye Candy.
Photo by Al Cotton

 


Okanagan Lake Bridge lift span makes it's final trip for disassembly at the graving dock.
Photo by Hayley Watts

 


The KYC "MarinaPan"
photo by Darrel Giesbrecht

 

.
Some great wakeboarding photos from last summer in the Okanagan.
Photo credits by FINELINE Boats

 



Upgrades to durable concrete moorage fingers in progress at KYC during February.
Photo by Al Cotton

 


Ice Sculptures on the KYC breakwater.
Photo by Ken Good

Anybody seen our foredeck guy ?............This is Grant Hardisty,
sleeping all night in the main sail lazy jack basket style.
We are in Belize on a 47' catamaran.
Thought you would get a chuckle out of this..............Kerri, (Jan 20, 2009)

 


The Mirabella V, 765 tonnes of sloop. 292 ft to the top of the 6 ft diameter mast.
Too tall for passage under any of the world's oceanic bridges.
Incredible: www.mirabellayachts.com/mirabella5/

.

 


"The Pineapple Express arrives in the Okanagan", January 08, 2008

photo by Jack Borno, Kelowna South Slopes.

 

KYC Commodore Carrie Holtby is introduced to some of
the more pressing rituals of New Year's Eve..

 

"Snowball Fights on Okanagan Lake"
New Years Day, January 1, 2009
photo by Kerri Hardisty

 

Photos of the Week for 2008
click on image to view full size


"A Taste of Spring" in December.

"Shoveling Out"

Matt Cameron "Down Under"

"Misty Afternoon at -15 Degrees"

"Santa Comes to KYC"

"Dock Repairs After The Storm"

Ron Spence and the "Big One"
(14 lbs)

"Aussie Rules claims Appleton Cup"

"KYC remembers our fallen soldiers"

"Bewitched at KYC"

"A Good Read"


"Bearly Moored at KYC"

"I Feel So Sleepy"

"KYC women go to Toronto"

"Ashbridge's Bay YC"



"Ashbridge's Bay YC"

"Ashbridge's Bay YC"

"The Osprey's Glare"


"KYC gals compete in Vernon"

"Close Encounters"

"Mink Encounters"

"Imported pet turtles go native"

"The Eagle Eye"

"Moon over Sails"

 

Thank you to our many photo contributors, especially to Al Cotton and Barbara Coughlin
Please send in your photos to James.. jimander@shaw.ca
back