photo by James McVie, from Racers and Rovers, 100 Years of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club
as told by
Doug Day
My father Bud Day imported the first Dragon to Canada in 1951 from Norway. The boat coast around $5,000 at the time, about the same price as a small house in Vancouver. To keep my mother Nan happy he named the boat “Lady Nan” and told her it was going to be a family cruising boat! I think we did a single 1/2 hour cruise on the boat in English Bay.