ae

In: ‘this. case, ‘as'we got about:
two, ‘or ‘three: miles . from .

white’ sails began’ to blossom ~
-all around us as; many other -
- skippers” got their crews to

n ti seems to bring 8 :

oomy, overcast sky and great '” Passage Island we ran across

réady for the start. It was a

great relief. . AY

Relief. changed - to ex-

a. elie: as we counted the

boats." We ‘counted . over
forty craft, at least ten miore |

than last year. So far, so
Booe

~

whe next . move : was the

.tack in to the start line: Our”

: vessel carried an inflatable

- At Passage: Island we é met -
“up with our dinghy and made : |.
_the:personnel switch without | |”
"Slowing. down. We: might as.
“well: have . waited: till later, ~
for. on ‘the: ‘other. side of

-a big hole in the wind that ..
stalled every boat and had-us
- drifting. every ry which way.

oo It seemed’ ‘to: take’ @ long ~
time for us to ride the puffs.
out of the hole: and ‘around
Point Atkinson: Let’s face it,
' Speck, it did. take a Jong .
‘time.

“Aboard Perception, Fred
Struchen’s big ketch, the —
‘crew were: ‘clowning around —
with oars. stuck out of. the ~
__portholes. "A: log tow. pulled .
by one tug. and. Steered: by .
another went right through
the -middie: of the racers
without making any dif- _

: Peppis . “small red: restaurant
at the: head of-the pier: (it's.

"+ difficult to make out the pier '

against. a ‘Shoreline,
making. US Use -the restaurant.
_ asa marker): I ‘peered ahead

- dinghy. with motor. that we

intended to use as one of the
photography platforms. As

-we neared the start line the
crew dumped it in the water ©

and. then Mark. Farkes and.
Alan Speck leaped i in. °

ference to anyone as none of
us, were-going anywhere at
the moment. At about two
we were becalmed off Point
Atkinson. I'm one of
the fudges, and the judging
_can’t get underway if ’'M not

forother boats. ‘mean what

aioe:

there.

happens if we ‘host a sailboat Their job was to start the

race and nobody: comes?

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_ so we cut loose

engine, go to the pier, pick —
up Mary thén return to our”

vessel. At. this time we in- —

_ tended to bring Mary aboard

and* Terry: Peters,..a ‘News —

.. photographer, “would join
-the dinghy and film the race
from the water. %

However, the dinghy
failed to start. Our com-
petitive juices were flowing,
the raft and
made for the start line along

~with fortycone other boats,

leaving our frantic dinghy

* crew pulling the starter cord

on the motor.

They seemed, to gel it
started eveutually, but by
then we were around
the start line and off on a
port tack to the bell buoy.
The wind was good and the
speed fairly high, and soon
Dundarave, the dinghy crew
and Mary were all far behind
and we were caught up in the
spirt of the competition. |

A BIT QF JOSHING

We did fin¢..on_the -tack..
iL AETOSS. A. iB. ferro come

te atte
Vee

heh i Nas a Vite “Weight: ~but" fu a

fairly stiff breeze it excells.
However, after rounding the
bell buoy, our luck began to
diminish as did the wind.
The run/reach across to
Passage Island saw a lot of
good-natured joshing from
other crews as they passed
us...yes, and some from us

. a8 we passed them.

WV firemen kept hopping

There are times when they’

have to wait a Jong time
.between fires but when it's
busy at the firechall it's busy.
West Vancouver firemen
were dashing from one fire
to another Wednesday af-
ternoon when they had four
calls within 20 minutes and
‘though none of the incidents

: "HAD TOBE THERE _

Last year we were last to
finish, and by. the time we.

subs,
f ‘caused afew heads 4o turn as ‘it rolled down Lonsdale Avenue: Tetley
rest of the

‘ flying.-visit ‘to Richmond where it:was scheduled to be on display this termcon es
. ‘promote mobile home sales. Owner and driver (or pilot) of the: contraption Is Smokey
Rolland, of Cardiff, California, pictured waving to onlookers after pulling on to 13th:

Street. He spent abont $1,500 converting the. Plane bs lato’ a roadiworthy. mob ‘home — _
and did the work himself. (Terry Peters *photo)

“arrived ‘ ‘the |
contestants. were either
‘leaving for their moorage or
else celebrating en-
thusiastically, and this year I
wanted to get it going before _
it got so late.

So we motored ‘in from
Point Atkinson; as did
several other vessels.

The post race festivities
. were fun. Next year we need -
a better spot to have them, .
hopefully a place where we.”
can tie up together. The
_ party for skippers and crews,
held at North Shore Sailing
School under the Granville
Street Bridge, was very well
attended. No one counted, |
but I think we had well over
a hundred people crammed.
into the place plus those
standing on the stairs
peering in and those who
were unable to make it that
far and celebrated on the ,

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“peta “Morse” did” a
masterful job of the post-
post-race awards, managing -
to keep forty-two ' vessels —
straight and also managing
to keep over a hundred
prizes together, and I want
to thank him for his par-
ticipation in the second of
what we hope will be a long |
string of fun races.

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