P) ” Everyone of us admires the lines of a beautiful yacht, when she fills her powerful | sails: in, a laughing breeze, after she has passed successfully the - strong current under the Lions Gate Bridge. Onlookers from: the North . Shore or the. walkway. at. Stanley Park. Jove to share in hink “280O.. Everything | iS SO ‘expensive. This inflation | makes’ it - ‘almost - ‘impossible te con-~ tinue.” . oe Then he smiled. “Thank © God, I didn’t know. that in - the beginning, and now: we. are almost there. I mean, the . launch‘ and the, different life “all together.” : aa The family had lived for 3° years aboard their ship while it was under construction. It vhadn’t: been: an’ easy . the symbolic significance ‘of +decision, But the’ payments ' departure. “Lucky people —~ — _ these. sailors!” ‘Mumerous comments - like to correct them. ~ .many: “years: on wi over dedication. under. much acrifice, solitude . and: On: their. Jtouse had grown ‘I ‘heard © over theirheads and it was | them whether itis worth it to decided to. move. that; — and never bothered onto the boat, even ‘though This question was almost an _ mutually: ;, the interior constriction h had | eiley "(citehen).” _of them. are ordinary: with‘a nine to five: yb. ‘But. “> actual work’ and ‘dedication starts for them after five, and most work lights are still . fall: ‘apart when. ‘willpower * proper ‘toilet an. _incomplete bare . them a piece of of sandpaper or -@ screwdriver. It works a short while; unless I paint. “Qf course, “everybody likes painting. All in all it feels "good when friends visit!” ‘+ "builders over the years. Most burning after midnight. Having seed many dreams had faded, I. asked . many of -go through all this hardship? ne “of course ‘it’s worth it. . "Fhink - ofthe. rewards; the lusty: ‘approval. of a job well done. You don’t have to be a boat “builder to feel that “reward. . ‘We are all in the | despair. 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