Little Current, North Channel The Cruiser's Net Les and Winn Files introduced us to a wonderfully useful tool operated by the Little Current Yacht Club, "The Cruiser's Net". Every morning at 0900 "Roy" comes on VHF Channel 71 to update cruisers on news, weather and sports. He takes any emergency broadcasts that may need to be transmitted. A boat check-in service is offered to anyone wishing to have their location recorded, and a relay message service is also offered. One morning when a thunderstorm was predicted to be coming in from the west, a well-equipped boat at that end of the channel passed along very useful information he was receiving on his radar, as well as wind and wave information. The Cruiser's Net also passes along local entertainment information. We very much enjoyed and looked forward to hearing daily updates from "Roy" and also following the progress of the boats that called in. The Little Current Yacht Club also offers a lecture series and we were lucky enough to catch one. We heard John Smulders, who is the owner of Discovery Yacht charters out of Little Current, speak on his favourite 10 anchorages in the North Channel.