Calgary Club Night – Pescadou on the European Canals

by Bluewater Cruising Association on 30 Oct 2017 The Calgary Chapter is pleased to welcome back Clio Smeeton and Ken Weagle for their second presentation this fall.

Clio and Ken have cruised the European canals for seven years aboard Pescadou and look forward to sharing a different perspective when it comes to exploring Europe. They have traveled canals and river systems in Germany; France; the Netherlands; Poland, Belgium and the UK, and have experienced iconic European cities such as Berlin; Amsterdam; Paris, and London from close up on the water. They even spotted Nessy when they transited the Caledonian Canal in Scotland!

So on a dark and cold winter night in Calgary, come, sit back and enjoy a leisurely and entertaining tour through Europe. Clio gained her early offshore sail training aboard her parents’ famous ketch, Tzu Hang, sailing in the 1950’s and 60’s to Australia; Africa; Asia; the Med, and from Japan to BC. Ken, on the other hand, spent his early life playing on boats and rafts on the south shore of Nova Scotia.

In 1997, while working for the Gwich’in Tribal Council in Inuvik to set up the Gwich’in Land and Water Board, Ken found a 22 foot Chestnut Freighter canoe, which he then rebuilt. In 2005, Clio and Ken paddled the canoe 1,000 miles down the Mackenzie River from Ft Providence to Inuvik, NWT. Subsequent extended trips have seen them explore the Mackenzie Delta and Great Slave Lake by canoe. They purchased Pescadou in Turkey in 2006, the topic of their October presentation, and began their European waterways exploration that are the focus of their November presentation.

Clio runs the Cochrane Ecological Institute, dedicated to breeding endangered wildlife, that was founded by her parents in 1971.
HMCS Tecumseh, 1820 24 Street SW Calgary, AB T2T 0G6
07 Nov 2017 1900h - 2130h
Members $5?/Non-Members $10

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