Tire mooring buoy connected by chain to two concrete drums. Available, until further notice, for free use, by agreement. Lovely location. No warranty as to condition or fitness for any purpose. You would be welcome to do repairs and replacements and make some small alteration in its location. Repairs and replacements become our property. It has been used until recently as the mooring buoy for a 20-foot double bilge keel sailboat drawing 28". Most appropriate for a long-term resident of Silva Bay.

Willing to share without warranty as to their being updated although most are quite new.

Some years we go north and don't need our southern charts and vice versa. So the charts that might be available for a portion anyway of a summer are those south of Nanaimo to the US border or those from Nanaimo north to Port Hardy including all of Desolation Sound, Discovery Passage, Johnstone Strait, and Queen Charlotte Sound.

We would be interested in swapping temporarily some years for charts of the West Coast of Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, and North Coast.

Charts onhand include: 3310-1 to 3310-3 (Gulf Island Strip Chart - missing #4); 3311-1 (Port Moody to Howe Sound); 3311-5 (Grief Point to Desolation Sound); 3312 Jervis Inlet and Desolation Sound (29 pages of charts in a booklet); 3441 (Haro Strait, Boundary Pass and Satellite Channel). For the remainder of the charts listed, see the Canadian Hydrographic Service guide to paper charts of the Pacific Coast at http://www.charts.gc.ca. Other charts in our library are: 3442; 3443; 3459; 3462; 3462; 3473; 3475; 3476; 3478, 3481; 3491; 3493; 3494; 3495; 3515 (Knight Inlet); 3527 (Baynes Sound); 3534 (Plans Howe Sound); 3535 (Plans Malaspina Strait); 3539 (Discovery Passage); 3543 (Cordero Channel); 3544 (Johnstone Strait - Race Passage and Current Passage); 3545 (Johnstone Strait - Port Neville to Robson Bight); 3547 (Queen Charlotte Strait - Eastern Portion); 3548 (Queen Charlotte Strait - Central Portion); 3555 (Plans in Redonda Islands, Loughborough Inlet and Vicinity); 3563 (Sutil Channel to Stuart Island).

Picture is of a chart of Knight Inlet.

Have and willing to share for free after July, 2011 (but do express your interest now), one of John Kimantas' wonderful books giving an in-the-kayak view of a part of the coast of British Columbia, The Wild West Coast 3 covers B.C. South Coast and the East Coast of Vancouver Island. 536 pages covering from the Gulf Islands through the Sunshine Coast, Desolation Sound, Discovery Passage, and Johnstone Strait, to the Broughton Archipelago and Queen Charlotte Sound. The kayaker at Ecomarine on Granville Island who sold the book to me said John Kimantas has written the best books about the coast from a paddlers' perspective. So far, even using the book as a planning tool for a sailboat cruise and not for kayaking, it does seem that the claim is a fair one.

Have and willing to rent for $7.50 per day with $70 security deposit. This small battery-powered Brother Label Maker is ideal for labelling things like electrical wires, circuit breaker panels, books, and equipment and for posting semi-permanent small notices. It connects via USB cable to a personal computer. (For mobile label making, such as at a boat, using a laptop works best.) The label maker is ready to run on being connected to the computer. No need to download software. In addition to your own computer, you will need to buy a label printer cartridge. They are available from Staples for about $25 each. You can make labels with different size fonts, in bold or italic typeface, etc. (The photo shows the keyboard of a laptop that is not included.)

I have this book and am willing to lend it to anyone interested in marine navigation who is a member of the Vancouver Power and Sail Squadron.

The plan is to share a sailing-adventure holiday, re-tracing (if that is possible) the "course" of the Dulcibella in the 1903 English spy novel "The Riddle of the Sands" (about which see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddle_of_the_Sands), by sailing from England to Germany, particularly through the shallow waters of the Frisian Islands, and, ultimately, back to England. We would need to charter a shallow-draft vessel. This would be a voyage for real sailors and navigators, although we might do it in the summer instead of (as was the case in the novel) mostly October. Price: currently unknown. Timing: currently unknown. Skill sets required: seamanship, navigation, cooking...Number of sharing parties wanted: perhaps 4-6. Pic is from Wikipedia's photograph of a first edition of the novel.

Our family (dad, mom, boy 20, girl 17) would like to share 1 or 2 double sea kayaks and related gear (lifejackets, roof rack, etc.) with 1-3 other families, for use on extended summer camping trips and locally during the year. Photo is of a sample type (Current Designs) double sea kayak. We don't have any kayaks yet and would be looking to buy new or used kayaks or share with others who already have them.

17' speedboat with 120 hp Evinrude outboard and trailer. Two sharing parties now. We would like one or two more to join us, as we don't use the boat enough. One-third interest for $2,500; one-quarter interests for $1,8750 each. Total usual annual cost of ownership is usually about $1,500. The boat currently needs a new canvas top. We keep the boat on a trailer year-round, except when in use. Ideally, one of the new boat sharing partners would have a covered secure parking space in Vancouver where the boat could be stored.