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more than 60 entrants ‘tii Sunday’s fourth annual North'Shore News Sailing Race from the: |
; “starting } live opposite Dundarave Pler, West Vancouver. More pictures and fall lists of prizewinners and finishing times on n pages B4°
; ee “and BS. Photos by Terry Peters and Elsworth Dickson.

Cloudy, clearing and

warmer in the afternoon

THURSDAY;
Increasing clond

Reaching Every Door on the

,

‘By BOB HUNTER
It had been raining

Yor a week. At 6 a.m.,

‘the sky was a grey
pallet. The light was
jpleak. the clouds were
‘thick, The radio said

9 off’ Pt.
Atkinson was 15 knots,
and ‘would. probably
blow to.25..

* Groggily, I piled a
Mustang survival suit,
. gumboots and a pair of foam —

wetsui ‘booties “into thie scat

‘convinced that. English’ Bay
‘would be a soupy maelstrom

ali day, and my. initiation
into the secret rites of racing
a sailboat would be a horror
story. .

Visions of Howard Pyle's
painting of the red-cyed
crew on the decks of the
storm-tossed Flying .. Dut-
chman [flickered before my
eyes. .

_ Out of the first 13 days of
June, there had beén one

day of: ‘sunlight! What /hope

te,

the

was there that the 14th’ day
would transform Vancouyer

into Paradise?

The North Shore | News’

. Sailing Race was in ‘all

likelihood going to be a tale’
of: wooden boats and so By-
marrowed men, of brave ’
damsels, and = rain-slicked

decks. I was pretty sure —

especially at 6 a.m. — that I
wasn't going to enjoy it very
much,
Yet by the time I got down
to the Burrard Yacht Club to
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