A whale of a sail

Mani was wonderful, but 1 was hot. On the

walk over to the Suburban N:
America convention at 8 o'clock in. the morning I

found myself perspiring, and by the time the
sessions were drawing to a close, at noon on the

last day, I was ready for a break. Several of us

arranged to charter a small sailboat to experience

some of the tradewind sailing for which Hawaii ts

so famous and we were anxious to get going.

The drive to Lahaina
seemed to go slowly. It was 2
in the afternoon by the time

faces of some of the others.
MEAT HOOKS

However we made it out

yellowed sails and were off,
on a plunging, splashing
close reach. We set a course
for the island of Lanan,
about cight miles away. It
was exhilarating sailing, the
water was blue, the wind full
and steady with some gusts,
and the salt spray was warm
on my face. We organized
lunch and whtile that was
coming out of the galicy I
repaired the damage done by
the meathooks to my hands.
“Meat hooks” are what
sailors call the little bits of
wire sticking out of worn
halyards that can do quite a
bit of damage to one’s hands.
Same beer, sandwiches, and
potato chips arrived on the
cockpit. Soon everyone was
used to the boat. confidence
returned and we began to
enjoy it.

It is a beautiful, beautful
place. Even the water was
beautiful, the smal] white

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caps ike frothy combs on
the waves. The islands are
all capped by volcanoes
thrusting out of the ocean,
and the slopes of the stcep
bills are checkered with
sugarcane and pineappic
fields. The clouds hang
around the tops of each of
the islands like hats, and the
shadows of them played over
the green quilt below.

We were nearing the end
of our tack when one of the
ladies on board said that she

Saw a whale spouting ahead. ©

Her busband told her it was
nonsense, and that she was
en the rocks of Lanan. She
insisted it was a whale.
“There's another one'”. she
said, but he wasn't con
vinced.

LEVIATHANS

Then someone else saw a
spout and then another, and
then two or three more, and
finally when one of the
leviathans leaped almost
entirely out of the water and
fe back with a terrific
splash there was simply no
denying it anymore, sot
even for the greatest skeptic.
I even saw one whale laying
on its side, waving its long
pectoral fin m the am fike a
beckoning arm.

We saw a lot of whales
that day, probably about
fifty. We never got too close
to them — they were
hugging the reef around
Lanati, and we were still a
mile or two off-shore. At one
pomt there were whales
spouting on both sides of us,

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back from where we came,
on the Mani side. I was a
muserable

COCKPIT MAGIC

We began the long beat
back to the harbour, still
seeing whales almost every
ame we looked. Everyone
took a tick on the lier and
by the time we reached the
entrance markers to the
channel we were pretty well
experienced with the boat.
We nonchalantly ran up into
the wind, dropped the sails
and motored back in through
the channel. The owner of
the boat comphmented us on
our fine entrance — he
probably says that -to every-
one, but it made us all feel
very good nevertheless. We
cleaned up the boat,_packed
our gear up to the car and
then went to the nearby
Pioneer Inn, an_ historic
landmark, for a long cold

Everyone was suntanned
from our adventure and
excited by all the things we
had seen. We sat on the
porch of the hotel as the
tropical sun set and the
dehcious cool breeze took
away any lingering
discomfort. It was a very
nice time, a very pleasant
afternoon, and I found that
as (almost always) a few
hours in the cockpit of a boat
draws people together like
nothing clse I have ex-
perienced. There’s magic in
the wind and the water. And
there's definitely magic in
the whales.

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