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.

Just a nice photograph, from the office window, of a slice of Vancouver, British Columbia, as winter comes on.

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I am looking to build a small half pipe and want to split the construction costs and use with anybody who is interested. Ideally, we would build the ramp somewhere in the west side of Vancouver, Kitsilano or West Point Grey.

For use to commute occasionally to work/home between West Point Grey and the False Creek area in Vancouver. I don't own such a vehicle but would be willing to buy an interest in, preferably, a new one. Photo is sample only. Proposed number of sharing parties: 2-3. Estimated total purchase price: $2,400-$3,900. Estimated purchase price per sharing party: $800-$1,950. Estimated total annual ownership costs: $1,500. Estimated annual ownership cost per sharing party: $500-$750. (Costs are guesses at this point. We will need to revise.)

"Destiny" a sweet, quiet, 4-year-old, female, mixed-Siamese-and-something, long-haired cat with blue and hazel eyes needs an occasional home when our family vacations. Interested in sharing her very occasionally? No charge. Must return. Would be not more than 2 or 3 weeks at a time, once a year or so.

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.

Old truck or van for very occasional (non-commercial) use hauling building supplies, garden stuff, or garbage. Not owned yet. Proposed number of sharing parties: 10-20. Type of sharing parties: individuals. Total estimated purchase price: $3,000-$10,000. Total estimated purchase price per sharing party: $150-$1,000. Total estimated annual ownership costs (does not include depreciation or cost of money): $4,000. Estimated annual ownership costs per sharing party: $200-$400. Pictured: photo of an old International, from Wikipedia.