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| by y Peter Speck

_By late Saturday afternoon it seemed to me that
my plan to go sailing the next day was not very
attractive. The weather was terrible. I couldn't
get through on the phone to the government
meterological recording, as usual, but as the day

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It was wot

helmsman steered by
peering between heads.

It was very cozy but a
trifle awkward, as the
windows tend to fog up, and

wore on it was obviously developing into a rip- it's: difficult to tend the type in the world.

snorting south-easter, and there was no mistaking sheets. = .

itsintensity. =~ , I spent much of the time § - ‘COME IN AND FIND out oo
The trees were thrashing This day we were foul weather gest kept me WHAT SPEAKERS ARE SUPPOSED TO DO.

outside in thirty win tra lfing seven ts * ‘

the rain blew almost My Mi -warm, and I enjoyed the

horizontally, and I began to
phone the people we were
planning to take out. All had

and five kids, the youngest

about nineteen months and)

the oldest fifteen years.
From long experience we

cleanness of the wind and
the rain. We sailed all the
way to Gambier and around

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. to the government dock on ° are .
been looking out of their were equipped with fruit and : : drop by Big Bird Sound for reservation.
windows: and-we readily cookies for the kids and four the west side, using the p by :
agreed that taking the boat new plastic buckets for mal. $78ne only to motor into the |
out in that weather was nota de-mer. The children had i
very good idea. the essential life jackets and .
comic books — and . ;
. FUN 'N FOOD
The following Sunday everything was ready. ; _ speaker Kerp

didn’t look too bad. The sky nae Tom picked us up in his
was overcast and it. was But the weather didn’t  rattly old truck, and we all

sliphti ith the 100k too good. By the time went up to his palace on the
wind from the north-east at Wo Were taking off the dock hilltop for an afternoon of
about ten knots. I phoned [™eSit-wasstilllockinglikea fried chicken and friendship.
the government weather southeaster. We slid out of Gambier Island had a misty
recording, got through after the moorage with just the jib magic quality that day. The
fifteen tries, and heard that °P.By the time we were out road wound through mossy
the forecast was for in Howe Sound Ihad broken trees and banks of ferns, and
moderate south-east winds ‘@™Y new junior crew and there was hardly another 1246 Lynn Valley Road
and some rain. We decided we had set the staysail and person to be seen. FF : moe
to 80, and. met out at Rotting The ‘wind was W: dark. North Vancouver 987-8549
Fisherman's Cove about ten 2 e.came back after
in the morning. freshening. There was not much point in

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thirteen people in the 926-3525
en | COCKpiIt at one time The :

We have a centre-cockpit
sailing vessel, with a small
cabin aft of the cockpit and
others forward. The cockpit
is covered with a folding
dodger with clear plastic
windows. There is room in it
for four people to be
reasonably comfortable,

vention on the vessel, in my
Opinion, giving protection

_ tholes are high and difficult

below. It is hard to oricnt
oneself in a moving, pitching
or rolling vessel without
being able to sce some fixed
reference point.

Ie was a little rough. We
were no sooner off Horse -
shoc Bay, on our way up to
Gambier Island, than the
wind freshened and came
around more to the
southeast. The gusts were
very strong - | guess to about
thirty knots - and they made
the vessel heel quite a bit.

_ beating back against the

south-easter, so we put the
sail covers on and motored
into the wind. It exhilarates
me when the vessel is doing
what she was designed to do,
plowing into the green swells
and scattering it into cur-
tains of spray on cither side
of the bow.

Around Hope Point the

swell became smaller, as the
wind died down, and by the

in folowing it through, we

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