Page A2, September, 1979 - North Shore News then ‘arise at about . .Seyen | lines. end back: the ‘vessel out | into: me sleep. “ Ha! What: a caramba! : ; 7 didn’t wake. until. ‘9: 30. “My. alarm. clocks -the kids- had. got .up,. got. just: ‘enough’ ‘for*me:to know “that there was. no’ lope of . “backing ‘out ® into © ‘deeper- water? By the’ time ‘Mary got ‘out of her bunk. the: Hist was marked ‘enough that she fe ell. and more every second, ° . crew were staying up at the head of the float, in cabins at the Captain. Whidby Inn. I sent a runner up to wake ‘them. A great rush of adrenalin infused everyone - especially me = and in a great, most organized panic, we set about to try.to keep _ our vessel upright. I had never had this happen to me before, and I wasn’t sure that she would refloat after the OFFICEINEWS (604) 980-0511 | _CLASSIFIED 986-6222. . . Publisher tide came back in without . Peter Speck filling the cockpit, and i pa ete iibtioher through that, the rest of the Editor-in-Chiet vessel. Noel Wright _. Maneping Es Editor SHORING UP rader _ ; \ News Editor We shut off all the ~ Photos through-hull fittings (except _Etisworth Dickson — one, which got overlooked : Advertising Director in the rush) and rushed to cut _ Eric Gardwell some heavy shores from orate Manager driftwood on the beach. se Breduetion. These were propped against Tim Francis. °. _ the ‘starboard side - the Faye McCrae difficulty being that there eaneeitiod - was'no way we could get Administration them under the ‘round’ of the Andréw Walters hull and were forced to Accounts wedge them in under the toc Syivia Sorenson rail (the, teak dressing strip North Shore News, founded in that runs along the seam 1669 as an independent between the sides of the community newspaper and Vv land the deck). qualified under sore ule vit cssel an ) : Paragraph 111 of the . ' Excise Tax Act, is published each 1 directed that the Wednesday and Sunday by the North Shore Free Press id. and distributed to every door on the North Shorea. Second Class Mai Registration Number 3885. VERIFIED CIRCULATION 49,503 Entire contente¢. 1979 North Shore Free Presa Lid. All righte reserved. THIS PAPER 18S But it was no use. I was RECYCLABLE rowing around her in the nee == dinghy when the water level halyards be taken ashore and, using other ropes from the locker, fastened to trees. Between the shores under the tocrail and the lines from the top of the mast to the trees on shore I hoped to balance her on her massive concrete keel. and my j plan was, “to. stay: _ Qvernight Pt “the. dock and: eéper. ‘water, “put: the: : - anchor down and | gol back: to. * beach, without: waking-us.'I.- "vessel was. heeling ‘over more Some’ ‘of ‘our replacement ‘The “tension. on’ “rigging” would. ‘not: take. ‘the. -Strain,.and_ordered that the’. crew: slack them off. When © - they” did” ‘she. rolled over ~ more, to 42° degrees: from. -* horizontal. ‘And, thankfully, _ ~ " there’she stayed. « = ‘s oF r “i Poe” “Wes ‘were ca saotley-looking - grew ‘ia: the. jumble’ in “our: cabin: “three-year-old a : _just had ‘his. undies anda T- shirt on, :z ‘the . halyards ‘was “incredible at. | ‘that point I: ‘feared: that ‘the: - Mary hadn't: found: - nd. we-were allin - : sort of. : . -a’':delayed-- shock? ry condition: The. hotek: made... our lunch = we all. (especially - ’ the skipper) felt: very: con- spicuous in the dining room -» and. then. we. waited for. ‘the tide: to: come back i in, . ‘THECLEAN| UP. "Wes it ; did . the. Vessel. “ refloated. herself. - ‘without shipping a drop of water. -_ Inside there was a’ small amount in the head due to the . aforementioned . open valve. The primary difficulty’ was the fantastic jumble ‘of ’ material that had fallen from the high side to the low side .as she heeled:over. By three. in the afternoon she was afloat again. I started the _engine and we backed out ‘and put the hook down and began the two hour clean- up. The moral of this story? One: Read the tide book and don't depend on the kids to wake you up. Two: don’t use shores unless you can get them in“the right place to support the. boat without damage. The only damage to our boat was done by the shores. Three: the tides in Skagit Bay have to be seen to be believed - you ‘can ac- tually watch the water rise and. fall,; And four: United States Hydrographic publications use a different method of determining ‘datum’ than that used by Canadian hydrographers. We in Canada use the lowest normal tide - in ef- fect, the lowest tide of the year. In the States, hydrographers take the average of low tides - Mean Low Water; This seems to be little Canadian boaters, and it can make a difference of three - feet less-water under your vessel than what the charts indicate, says Brian Morse of North Shore Sailing School. | Happy sailing, and don’t kid me too much. It can happen to you. the | understood - by. $139-° : Renovation Sale On Now! 1596 Marine Drive 987-3121 987-4323 DC Servo Drive - includes mag cartridge ~~ Technics Stereo — Panasonic T. V. ~—— Super Savings on all recording tape. C.G.M.Sound & Color - North Vancouver, B.C. ah “IKI