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Volume 18 No. 11
Happy Canada Day!
Summer has found us big time…no complaints…just please stay hydrated and/or in the Bay!
The Firepump demo from last weekend was really helpful to keep us abreast of the need to be prepared. Are you in the ready? Thanks to Ed Kernaghan and the Ojibway Staff.
The season is off and running! Please be safe and courteous out there!
Table of Contents In this eBlast:
PaBIA
- PaBIA’s Sailing Race – 2 pm on Saturday, July 4
- On the Water Boater Coaching: Wednesdays, July 1 & 8
- Literally on the Bay
- Do You See Yourself in this Photo from 1995?
- Found – Kayak
- Yearbook Update
OF INTEREST
- Large Item Pick Up Day
- Ojibway Art Show
- GBB – July Events in PaB
- GBLT – Ecology Talk: The Corridor Project
- GBA’s 2026 Boating, Safety & Emergencies Report
- Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels – June 26, 2026
PaBIA
Whenever Possible please sign up for events
to make planning the food and beverage easier for the Club.
Naturalist: sign up here for July 15
Large Item Pick Up Day
Our hearts go out to those who two who lost their lives in the Highway 69 accident just south of PaB last Saturday morning which halted traffic flow in both north and south directions for most of Saturday.
Sadly, it meant that the Large Item Pick Up day could not take place. ToA has shared that the next Large Item Pick up day won’t be until the Saturday after the long weekend: August 8.
Literally on the Bay
Welcome to the Pointe au Baril Library summer e-blasts.
The Library, located in the Community Centre on South Shore Road, is open from 9:30-11:30 am Mondays and Wednesdays, holidays excepted. Recent best sellers have been added to the collection in time for summer reading. We are very much looking forward to the many conversations that a Library generates.
Pointe au Baril Library at the Community Centre, South Shore Road
Summer hours: Monday and Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Bobbi French’s The Brink of Something Beautiful
Ruby Nolan is a new widow. Hidden in her grief and guilt for her husband, Joe, is a sense that she is free from a marriage she never wanted. But how can she possibly begin again? An encounter with Maxine, a pregnant teen who reminds Ruby of her own sorry past, and a shocking revelation from her mother, Vera, send Ruby on a collision course with old truths and regrets and on a mission to help Maxine whether she wants it or not. While a friend warns Ruby that you can’t help anyone until you help yourself, it’s a lesson Ruby has to learn the hard way if she’s going to find any real peace. (Publisher)
Kathryn Stockett’s The Calamity Club
Stockett’s vibrant follow-up to her bestselling 2009 novel, The Help, traces the intersecting lives of an exasperated older sister, a precocious orphan, and an enterprising woman in 1933 Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur endures a miserable existence at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum for Girls in Oxford. Too old to be adopted, she counts down the days until her 12th birthday, when she’ll be sent to work in a Biloxi cannery—though she still clings to hope that the mother who abandoned her might return. Meanwhile, Birdie Calhoun, 24, is forced into action when back taxes threaten the rural home she shares with her mother and grandmother in the Delta. She travels to Oxford to ask her younger sister, Frances, for help, only to discover that Frances’s supposedly charmed life is far less so than it seems. There, Birdie crosses paths with Meg and Charlie, a down-on-her-luck woman with a wild idea for making a fortune and reclaiming control of her life. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this offers a memorable view into the impossible choices faced by women in the Great Depression.
Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear
A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.
Do You See Yourself in this Old Regatta Photo from 1995?
Regatta posters are part of the fabric of Pointe au Baril – Do you see yourself in this one?
It’s a good reminder to be sure you have the Junior and Senior Regatta Dates on your calendar!
1st PaBIA’s Sailing Race of the Season –
New Beginnings!
Course: Middle Reach
Time: 2:00 pm
Rendezvous: Totem Island
(Dan Schenkman and Sara Griffin)
Standard two races:
- Albacores and Lasers on the triangle course;
- Melges and Flying Scots on a windward-leeward course.
We have a new trophy! There are awards for the Albacores, Scots, and Lasers. There is the Wawonaissa Cup, which cycles among the three classes, as well as the Bill Mosley Memorial Trophy.
But of course, there is nothing for the new Melges class. Stepping into the breach, Dan and Sara are inaugurating the Totem Island Trophy to the Melges 15 winner on the first weekend of the summer.
So let’s hope all the Melges sailors are out on Saturday, vying to be the first to put their name on the plaque!
Of Interest
Save the Date!
Tickets for the Ojibway Club Art Show Dinner and Breakfast with the Artists will go on sale on Tuesday, July 7 at 9:00 am.
Everyone is welcome.
Please book your tickets via Clubspot or The Ojibway Club Office.
GBA’s 2026 Boating, Safety & Emergencies Report
Now Available: GBA’s 2026 Boating, Safety & Emergencies Report
To keep our communities safe, informed, and prepared, the Georgian Bay Association’s Boating, Safety & Emergencies (BS&E) Committee has released its 2026 Annual Report.
Vetted directly by the experts who protect us—including Transport Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, the OPP, ORNGE, and the MNRF—this comprehensive guide delivers vital operational updates, upcoming regulatory shifts, and critical safety frameworks for the Bay.
Key Highlights From the 2026 Report:
- Boating Legislation Changes: A breakdown of federal regulatory changes, including the new phased-in 5-year pleasure craft licensing rules and updates on upcoming files like proposed decibel limits and mandatory PFD age brackets.
- The Myth of “Safe Conditions”: A sobering look at marine fatality data. Did you know that 79% of victims were not wearing life jackets, and nearly all incidents occurred in calm, clear weather close to shore?
- Emergency & Tech Resources: Practical operational updates from emergency response teams and a guide to apps every cottager should download.
Think of this report as the safety chat you give your family and guests the first weekend they arrive at the cottage. Don’t navigate the season unprepared!
Ecologist Talk:
The Corridor Project:
Stewarding Resilient Lands for Future Generations
with Karen Koornneef, Corridor Project Ecologist, Georgian Bay Land Trust
Friday July 10, 4-5 pm, Ojibway Club Lounge
Ecologist Karen Koornneef spends her summers hiking through the wilderness of Pointe au Baril, conducting environmental surveys for the Georgian Bay Land Trust’s Corridor Project. Along the way, she and students Kylie and Estelle are encountering rare species, studying how ecosystems regrow after forest fires, sampling macroinvertebrates in water bodies, and more.
Learn more about Karen and team’s work, and how this fits into larger efforts to protect the Georgian Bay environment.
Lost and Found
Yearbook Update
With each eBlast, we provide with a list of members with updated contact information.
The details of all the changes since the March 15 deadline for the 2026 yearbook are provided in THIS printable format
for you to insert into your Yearbook! This is the full list until after the new Yearbook is published
For reporting Markers’ problems
contact Tom Cavers by cell (pg. 266 in Yearbook 2026) or email
To contact Secretary-Treasurer
Elise Findlay: contact.pabia@gmail.com
- Hoff, Elmar & Cirsten (addition)
Water Levels
Lakes Michigan/Huron Water Levels June 26, 2026.
To better read the charts, please click on the chart for the Daily or Six Month Forecast Water level chart and the corresponding websites
Please support PaBIA’s Yearbook Advertisers 2026
This site’s advertising feature was created to provide assistance for special local information & events for existing Yearbook advertisers only.
Emergency
• PaB Nursing Station
• Canadian Coast Guard
Search and Rescue
800-267-7270
• PaBIA Emergency info