Past EYC Commodore Neil Sutcliffe wrote to us from Okanagan Lake. Neil is "not getting much sailing in, due to the fires and poor weather (too hot & no wind, too cold & no wind, too smoky to see what kind of wind...).
"Pretty nuts how fast these fires travel. Yesterday we saw a little bit of smoke and a bit of flame on the south flank of Mount Law, By 6.00 pm it was an inferno climbing up the south flank of the mountain and along the valley towards West Kelowna. They hit it hard though. At one point 60 fire trucks, six water bombers and four helicopters plus a couple of large aerial tankers dumping retardant. Can’t imagine how difficult it must be for the firefighters in this terrain and these conditions."
Neil says he is reluctantly putting Radical Chic up for sale. Here is the PDF with all the details. The email address contained in the PDF is unclear; try [email protected].
"Pretty nuts how fast these fires travel. Yesterday we saw a little bit of smoke and a bit of flame on the south flank of Mount Law, By 6.00 pm it was an inferno climbing up the south flank of the mountain and along the valley towards West Kelowna. They hit it hard though. At one point 60 fire trucks, six water bombers and four helicopters plus a couple of large aerial tankers dumping retardant. Can’t imagine how difficult it must be for the firefighters in this terrain and these conditions."
Neil says he is reluctantly putting Radical Chic up for sale. Here is the PDF with all the details. The email address contained in the PDF is unclear; try [email protected].