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A2-Wednesday, March 12, 1980 - North Shore News

speckulations

by Peter Speck .

All Saturday night we swung at anchor in Silva
Bay, on Gabriola Island. Three woke me by
crawling into my bunk about five o'clock in the
morning. His cold feet and wiggling body spelled
the end of any solid sleep, but I managed to
snooze for a couple of hours more. Finally I gave
up trying to ignore the icy toes and got up.

It was cold in the aft
cabin, and I dressed
hurriedly, glad for the thick
woollen clothes.On the way
through the cockpit to the
galicy to put on the coffee I
stopped to look around Silva
Bay, empty of any other
boats at anchor. The
morning was overcast, the
wind from the south-east
gusting to 10 knots, making
our rigging sing with a low
sibilant whistle. Sprinkles of
rain drummed on _ the
transparent plastic over my
head and the wind made a
dark rippled moving line on
the water. There were lots of
birds in the harbour cor-
morants, brants and

REFRESHING MOMENTS.

The coffee was refreshing.
I took a cup back up to the
cockpit and sat for a few
minutes, looking around,
while the noise of the rest of
the crew getting up echoed
through the vessel. Lockers

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opened and closed, the door
to the head creaked, the
pump belched, then I heard
the fresh water taps being
worked.

In the galley pots and pans
rattled and the aroma of
breakfast began to drift up
the companion way. Three
joined me in the cockpit,
clutching a glass of apple
juice and a cookie, and sat
on my knee.

There was a fair wind
yesterday for part of the day.
We made most of the
crossing of the Strait. from

Vancouver. under sail,
starting with the working jib
and then i to the

genoa as the wind faded. It
died completely about four
o’clock. We motored past
Thrasher Rock about five.

It had been an ‘almost
sunny’ day with high, thin
clouds and the barometer
well up. We played Strauss
Waltzes on the tape deck to
deaden the noise of the
engine, and the mate
remarked that it was “a little

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The sheer joy of it

chilly but not a bad day at all
for March”.

DIFFERENT DAY

But now, Sunday, was a
different day. The high thin
clouds had degenerated into
low thick clouds, and
something about the wind
told me that while it was
light in the anchorage it
might be doing a little better
out there in the Strait.

Breakfast came and was
devoured, the mate took his
turn doing the dishes and
Mary and I went out on
deck. We took off the saii
covers and put up the
mainsail and then the
staysail as the boast swung to
her anchor. I started up the
engine, “just in case”, but
was hoping not to use it.

I'm trying to improve my
practical sailing skills, and
going im and out of an-
chorages under sail is
something I need to prac-
tice. When the main and the
staysail were up we hauled in
the anchor hand over hand
and secured it. I paid the
boat off and we began to
reach towards the maker on
the rocks at the narrow
entrance to Silva Bay.

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between a half a knot and
one knot, but she handled
well and we-slowly slid past
the beacon and out through
the channel. The reach
became a beat of motion of
the boat changed per-
ceptible. She lay over about
ten degrees, and then wé
were off on a fine plunging
tack into a fresh
southeasterly breeze.

SHEER JOY

The wind was brisk
outside the land locked
harbour. The speedometer’s
hand swung.up to five and a
half knots and stayed there
as steady as a rock. We all
laughed with the sheer joy of
it. Halfway to Thrasher
Rock we went over on to a
broad reach and began the
crossing back to Vancouver.
There was a moderate sea,
wind fifteen to twenty knots,
and the boat sailed well.

Ferrocement boats may be
a little heavy in light airs, but
in a fairly stiff breeze they
excel. Mary was steering,
her New Years resolution,
and she was looking a little
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later. “I'm sure we're going
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Afhd then, ten minutes later:

“Look at those big black -

clouds up there”. The mate
and I did our best to be
reassuring. -

Down below I discovered
that while the galley con-
version had solved the
problem of the galley sink
tipping below the water line
on one tack it had not solved
the problem of the head sink
tipping under the water line
on the stet tack. The spare

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were a soggy, pulpy mass in
their locker, beneath the
sink. The towels were
equally soaked. I shut the
sink off and we cleaned up
the mess.

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heat comes up the com-
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dodger extends the useful
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We passed ahead of an
orange hulled fishboat,
towing’ two big aluminum
seine skiffs. The skipper of it _
changed course to go astern
of us and as she went by we
beard her engine roaring in
the afternoon.

Three was asi in hi
bunk, Greek music from in
radio filled the cockpit. “We
might as well be sailing on
the Mediterranean” sai
someone, and we all agreed.
It might as well be the
Mediterranean, or any other
inland sea, for that matter,
with the low shapes of the
Gulf Islands ten miles
behind and the mountains
around Bowen Island ten
miles ahead. Although the
wind was slacking off slightly
it kept getting colder and
colder, and we shut the
other cockpit curtain.

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