July 28, 2020
The PORTS Cruising Guide Photo Contest is on again!
This year, two guides are in production and underway now - The Rideau Canal & Lower Ottawa River and Trent Severn Waterway & Lake Simcoe! Editors are researching and writing, aerial photographers are out and our creative designers are prepping. The FREE* mobile digital app version that is so popular with Georgian Bay 2021 Guide, will be available for these new guides as well! Both of these new PORTS Cruising Guides will release in January, 2021.
Why not share this fun contest announcement with your boating customers? It’s easy to enter.
Photos can be from the past or present. Send your high resolution shots to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Good luck!
*the mobile app comes free with purchase of the printed PORTS Guide.
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