Martin Woolwich wrote:

I am hoping to move permanently to Canada in 2007.

I have a 55ft Motor boat which I would like to bring with me. The boat is
approx 32 tons net weight and Part 1 UK Registered

I have RYA dayskipper Theory, Practical and RYA VHF DSC operators licence.

Where do I even begin to find out what I am required to do in order to make
this vessel OK in Canada and me to pilot it?

Forget any issue of transportation and power supplies etc, I have those bits
under control

Also I have identified a newsgroup called can.rec.boating which may be
helpful to me but this is the first time I have ever tried to work with
newsgroups and my news server does not find this. Any ideas (in layman's
terms) how I might be able to connect to this group?

Hope someone can help




To find the group, you must connect to a newsgroup server that
subscribes to the group. The server is specified in news server
settings in your email account manager, somewhere. I don't know
where that is in M$ Outlook. Depends on which client software you
use. I use nntp.broadband.rogers.com and allnews.nbnet.nb.ca or,
you may request your ISP to subscribe to the group. Such begging
takes a while sometimes. If you just post to the group, it may go
through and subscribe for your service automatically.

Http newsgroups are a pain, but they are all available to any net
browser if you don't mind the shlawphy response. Use
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/can.rec.boating if you can stand it.

I have a mooring and camp on the St. John river in New Brunswick at
Evandale. I use can.rec.sailing regularly, but it's very quiet right
now, because of the season. If you need anything specific, please


Terry K