C14 VANCOUVER HARBOUR
A. Lynnwood Marina offers a 60 ton travel-lift, yard services and boathouse moorage to 150 feet. Also home to Marina Side Grill with outdoor seating and great food. G-yachts, Marisol Marine Center & Pacific Marine Service to name a few.
Burrard Yacht Club - Entrance is marked with the old fuel barge “502,” which is used as a breakwater.
Seabus of the BC Transit – Two vessels named the Burrard Otter and Burrard Beaver; double-ended catamarans which were launched in 1977. Crossing the harbour takes twelve minutes; 90 seconds to unload and reload 400 passengers. Vancouver Harbour Mystery Wreck or the Lonsdale Quay Mystery Wreck is identified as the Canada ex– Spratt’s Ark; 145 feet long, 32.1 feet wide, 308 gross tons, sunk November 27, 1909 (UASBC).
Pioneer Grain Elevators, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and the Neptune Bulk Terminals are located here.
Lynnterm – Exports forest products, general cargo and project cargoes. Just west is the Seaboard International Terminal and Lynn Creek. On the east side is Dow Chemical Terminal.
Seymour River - East is Allied Ship Builders and Canadian Occidental Petroleum and to the west is Bel-aire Shipyards.
Do not venture north of the markers, shores dry up for 450 m (1,500 ft) at places. The S.S. Newington, a steam screw ketch, is 115.3 feet long, 21 feet wide, 11.5 feet deep and 193 gross tons; it sunk on August 26, 1959 by vandals who opened the seacock. Capt. Charles Polkingthorne brought the Newington to Vancouver in 1907 (UASBC).
Berry Point – Named after Rear Admiral Sir Edward Berry. Berry Point site berths have a minimum of 12.7m at zero tide.
Chevron Oil Refinery – Do not venture close to their wharf as it is a restricted area with no trespassing. Second Narrows Bridge – Clearance at high water is 44 m (145 ft) and the railway bridge has a clearance of 10.5 m (35 ft), and when raised 41 m (153 ft). It is the third railway bridge, the first was known as the Bridge of Sighs due to the constant damage by collision with ships and barges. It was ultimately brought down in a spectacular accident.
Hasting Mill – Site around which, ultimately, the city of Vancouver was developed in 1870.
Vanterm – Five container cranes operate at Vanterm. To the east is the Pacific Elevators that handle wheat, barley, canola and rye.
Centerm – It has four high speed, 40 ton gantries, top and side-lifters. On the south of Centerm is the Flying Angel Seaman Club, Apostleship of the Sea, and the International Sailor’s Society Canada.