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JTCanuck
- 65, Canadian
- Tonga
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NationalityCanadian
Age65
GenderMale
Fluent languages English
Qualifications CYA Advanced Cruising
CYA Coastal Navigation
ICC Power/Sail
Senior Instructor
International Certificate Of Competency (ICC)
IYT - Bareboat Skipper
PADI - Open Water
Restricted Operators Certificate (Maritime Radio)
Sea Miles 10,000+

I’m a 64 year old Canadian and retired since 2019. I learned to sail as a child and went through the CYA sailing courses before becoming a certified sailing instructor. I taught sailing for several years before moving on to my professional career. During my youth I sailed competitively at an international level mainly racing on 505, fireball, 470 and laser dinghies.

After retiring I purchased my current yacht “True North” a Hylas 54 monohull in Australia and have circumnavigated the entire Australian coast as well as made several additional trips up and down the east coast and around Tasmania. In March 2024 we sailed from Tasmania to New Zealand and cruised the top of the South Island before crossing the Cook channel and working our way up the east coast.

My future plans are to continue a slow trip to see the world from the water. The immediate plan is to head north to Tonga and then work back east to French Polynesia before heading back west to explore the Pacific islands both south and north of the equator.

Vessel

TypeSailing Yacht
Make/modelHylas 54
Length17 metres
Berth3
Language spoke aboardEnglish
Boat descriptionTrue North is an exceptionally well built blue water performance cruising yacht. She was built in 2006 and has been well maintained since new. She is cutter rigged and setup for easy short-handed sailing. Sails are all roller furling with a Leasurefurl in-boom furling mainsail and Furlex line-curlers for staysail and genoa. All sail trimming is performed with powered winches. Safety equipment includes a six person offshore liferaft, EPIRB, VHF and HF radios, Starlink satellite internet and a legacy Iridium Go. When offshore we rig jack lines bow to stern on both sides and utilize safety feathers when out of the cockpit. True North has tall solid stainless steel tube lifelines around the complete deck. All Hylas 54s were constructed with solid (non-cored) hulls with multiple layers of Kevlar included in the layup. A watertight bulkhead separates the sail and anchor lockers from the rest of the hull to maintain positive buoyancy after a major collision. Navigation instruments include current model Raymarine chart plotter, autopilot, gages and Vesper AIS. Yacht instrument data is available over the yacht wifi network for use by tablet based navigation systems. Yacht position is broadcast in realtime over the satellite connection to an on-line yacht tracker system. True North is equipped with a 70 gallon per hour water maker, a 9KW genset, 13KW inverters, 780 watts solar panels and 12KW LFP battery bank. Other amenities include large seperate refrigerator and freezer, gas and induction cooktops, gas and electric ovens, icemaker, washer/dryer and reverse cycle air conditioning. True North has three cabins, the aft centreline queen master cabin with on-suite toilet and shower stall, a midship double berth cabin and a centerline queen forward cabin. The forward cabins share a head with seperate shower stall.