Dragon Tales

Stories about the boats, the people, the parties…

  • From Lake Balaton in Hungary to the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto
    A fairy tale of a journey, lead by Dragons all the way by Steve Simon My family had a summer home on Lake Balaton in Hungary and I don’t remember a time when I was not sailing. In my teens I was racing a European dinghy class, the Pirate. After getting my engineering degree and … Read more
  • The Lady Nan, KC1
    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 … Read more