TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BOATING BC EVENT CALENDAR

Boating BC Events

As Boating BC continues to grow and expand their reach to the boating public through social media, newsletters and events like the Boat Show, the traffic to our website continues to increase. This means more people visiting our Member Directory for companies like yours. This not only means it is important to keep your member profile up to date, it is also a great opportunity for you to advertise upcoming events to the general public through the Boating BC Event Calendar. 

This calendar is available to all Boating BC members as a way of advertising events such as a boat show, open house, charity event, educational sessions, and much more. To post your next event:

Log in to the Boating BC website (www.boatingbc.ca) with you company’s main user account.

Go to Member Area in the top right corner.

Go to Post an Event and fill in the online form.

January Pleasure Craft Licensing Statistics

Transport Canada’s pleasure craft licensing statistics for the month of January are available for download. For the 2014 year, 4,917 new pleasure craft license were issues in British Columbia. If you would like to receive data on the rest of Canada, please contact the Boating BC office at 604.683.5191 or info@boatingbc.ca.

Welcome New Boating BC Members

Boating BC would like to welcome the following new members to the Association. Please take a moment to visit their websites, reach out and learn how you can work together:

AbbyMac Auto Marine Ltd.

Arbutus Coast Yachts

Edward Jones

Fitzwright Survival Inc.

Interlock Roofing

K.N.W. Diesel Inc.

Mr. Pumpout Ltd.

Oak Bay Marina

Outside the Box Dist. Ltd.

Pacific Net & Twine Ltd.

Portside Marine Insurance

Probio Plastics

Prodigy Marine

Saturna Island Marine Research & Education Society

Solution Ideale

Swabbies Holdings

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