Page 2, May 18, 1977 - North Shore News | - . Ziggy came down to voltmeter. The vessel has been wired many times. The inside of the engine room is festooned with garlands” of multi-coloured wires. Some of the bundles are as thick as my wrist, and visits from the electrician are frequent. We have this little joke going about my ‘resident electrician.’ Sunday was ‘repair-the- boat’ day. Early morning found me squatting beside a reluctant bilge pump. My notebook lay amongst the tools spread over the cabin. floor, and every time I thought of something to fix i jotted it down. It was a little depressing—outside the wind blew briskly and the sky was blue, and inside my list pot longer and longer. The - hands of the clock sped ahead. Sunday !ooked like a working day, not a sailing day. I made some coffee. glance up through: standing straight out from the mast stays. I turned on the radio and while — it warmed up I went into the wheelhouse’ and stuck. my. head out into the sunshine. | The wind whipped briskly | through the rigging. *‘Wind -15 to 20 knots, becoming. westerly,’” said the weather ‘office. .‘*Small . craft warn- _ ing.’’- Small. craft: warnings "generally mean fine sailing. --And us tied up to the wharf. NEVER SAILED BEFORE “Say, Ziggy,’ I said, you think you could finish the job later?’’ He said that he could, and we talked about . the possibility of him crewing for me. He’s never been sailing before, but he was a commercial fisherman at one time and has had lots of’ experience with other types mf Lin ws CO eee mt ted A VE UVALS. YU WC SEGIICU LIIC diesel with a jumper wire and | motored out. We were moored in a dog-leg berth at the end of a long, narrow channel lined with tug-boats. I'm 'nervous enough about the moorage, and my limited. ‘‘do _cannonballed . out the boat, holding his experience with experienced tug boat skip- “pers. They don’t say much, but I know what they're re thinking. Getting in or out of the mooring is interesting, to ‘say the least. My boat responds slowly to the wheel. at low hull speeds. The vessel weighs about ‘w: nty-two tons and takes some. getting used to. We got out, though _ without bloodshed. AL the skylight showed the telltales - The wind was as promised -—a fine breeze that ruffled the surface of. the harbour. Zigoy steered and I put the. + oaaw sails up, and then I took over the wheel. I turned off the. -wind and the sails filled with. — a snap: The boat heeled over. and we began . a harbour... Alas, I had been so intent: ‘on the repairs that I had overlooked another ‘neces- sary precaution—and a gal-. lon. of paint that. had been narrow _channels and a new boat, but ‘the thing that unnerves me most is coming in or leaving - under the eyes of all thove - fine thundering run. across the — The. wind was. gusting—every now and then | the intensity would go up and - the vessel would-heel ¢ a. little : more. 4 —E TTI OTTO Oy criss-crossed “. several loosely stored in. a focker © of the locker and against the side of. the settee opposite. The top: came off, of course, and a good deal of the contents - whether Credit totals. are : ‘considered too high, too low ended up in a pool cradled between the floor and the. settee. MADE A “DOUGHNUT” ‘However, if Ziggy was a> stranger to sailing he was no VERIFIED CIRCULATION 46,000 | 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 OFFICE/NEWS: (604) 980-0511 CLASSIFIED: 980-3464 CIRCULATION: 986- 1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Bob Graham/Editor-in-Chief Noel Wright/News Guillermo Lam/Photos Ells- worth Dickson/Production Marna Leiren/Advertis- ing Kristi Vidler/Clagsified Berni Hilliard/Circula-" tion Yvonne Chapman/Administration Barbara Haywood/Accounts Sylvia Sorensen. North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent community newspaper qualified under Schedule 111, and Part 111, Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday by ‘the North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Second Class Mall Registration Number 3885. ENTIRE CONTENTS COPYRIGHT © 1977 NORTH SHORE FREE PRESS LTD. All rights reserved. _and distributed the paint all we were caught ‘by the wind _ and tide, made a spectacular _ tug. boat skippers Knew... ‘ident of the Canadian. Bank- ‘ers’ Association (CBA), told | ‘stranger to spilled paint and he got it cleaned up—a good thing, too, because we were running out of room on that .tack and would have to come. which would have. about, tipped the floor the other way over the. place. The next _casualty was a tray of ‘small | paris, but after the paini it~ seemed like nothing. It was worth it. The sailing was grand, Ziggy got:over his initial uneasiness at the haal Rte angle of “and we ‘the harbour ‘times, from Second Narrows bridge to the no-sailing zone where the - _new ferries will be. crossing. - The day was splendid; and. _we came in in the afternoon sun-burned and invigorated. Coming in to the moorage, doughnut and canie into our spot the wrong way around. I tried to make it look as if I. planned it that way, but the Consumer credit. were 10 years ago when compared ° ‘income, a spokesman: for ‘the banking. industry says. Rowland C. Frazee, pres- a Senate committee that or just right depends on many other factors. One of the best compari- sons is to personal savings, he told a banking, trade and commerce committee hear-- ing on the Borrowers and Depositors Protection Act. ‘In the period from 1967 to 1975, consumer credit in Canada increased at an average annual compound rate of 13.2 per cent while personal savings increased 19.1 per cent. - ‘In other words, while Canadians : increased _ their consumer credit, they have also increased their savings and their ability to repay to a much greater degree.”’ Mr. Frazee said consumer credit as a percentage of personal disposable income (income’ less taxes) was about 20 per cent in 1967 and now has returned to that level after a slight rise in 1973-74, “This illustrates that Canadians are not increasing their consumer credit dis- proportionately. — They are, in fact, respond- ing to general economic conditions from year to year in their savings, expendit- ures and borrowings.”’ levels ‘now are no higher than they © ‘the ’ Packed in one pound containers Minimum order of 15 pounds For delivery to all areas of Greater Vancouver including Port Ccquitlam, Surrey, ~ Delta, Tsawwassen, ‘White Rock and Po't. 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