(604) 980-0511". ' CLASSIFIED *- 986-6222 0° | CIRCULATION | 2) 986-1337... .. Publisher Pater Speck Associate Publisher Bob Graham Editorin-Chiet Noel Wright ‘Managing Editor ~ Andy Fraser News Editor Chris Lioyd .. -. Photos Ellsworth Dickson « ~ Advertising Director - Erio Cardwell | Traffic Manager Donna Champion , Production Tim Francis - Faye McCrae Classified Berni Hilliard Administration Andrew Walters Accounts Sylvia Sorenson North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent community newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Part 111, Paragraph 111 of the Excite Tax Act, is published each Wednesday and Sunday by the North Shore Free Press Ltd and distributed to avery door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885, VERIFIED CIRCULATION 48,478 Entlre contents (:1978 Nonh Shore Free Preas Lid. All rights renerved. ' THIS PAPER IS - RECYCLABLE 4 4 ‘We sai divine days that: blessed us on.the Pacific North-_-f west this summer. It-was sunny and warm by. eight | o'clock in the morning, with high light clouds to . | the east, and an eight knot wind from the SSE. ' The forecast ‘was for. ‘twenty-knot westerly ‘winds in the afternoon and little change over thenext few days - perfect for sailing.. ° But the eight knot winds in the morning dwindled to considerably less than that. We -entered - Obstruction Pass and more or less drifted through with the current, including one unplanned 360 degree turn on an eddy that confused one powerboat skipper behind us to no end. The wind. was only. three! knots. out across Rosario Strait hoping that the. westerly winds, promised in the. morning would materialize soon. The current in Rosario Strait was running north at two knots, and we were making two knots across the stream, ‘which made for interesting charting. On the other side of the strait we stalled on a massive ebb tide coming out between Buckeye Shoal and Cypress Reef. Por over an hour hung there, making little headway and then losing it as soon as the light wind died, Finally, after much deliberation, we started the engine and motored through. As soon as we had overcome the obstacle the = ‘We said’ farewell to Rosario resort. the next. ‘ morning, slipped. our . mooring «and ‘set. sail. ' southwards.: The day: was: yéet:.another ‘of those. fifteen knots from the SSW and gusting up to twenty. knots. The engine was shut’ off and we settled down to some fantastic sailing. There is little ‘fetch’ there and the wind didn’t raise much in the way of waves. ‘Our progress through: the. water was exhilarating - six knots may not seem like much to car drivers, but for me six knots in a twenty-two ton sailing vessel is very fast indeed. (Don’t laugh, Pachena!), We were heeled over at twenty degrees, and the laundry that was hung to dry on the lifelines streamed out paralle] to the water. By seven o'clock we were going like the proverbial] bat out of hell. The helmsman was luffing up to some of the bigger gusts, and the hydraulic steering groaned with the stfain, “She's sure frothing along now" said Elsworth. ‘ Mary joked that if she could bake a carrot cake on this angle of heel I should be able to make the log entries, so stop complaining, A powerboat came up fram astern going flat out, and it was a pleasure to see it have to work so hard to catch up after days of being tossed around by the washes of high-speed powerboats as we drifted around in light winds. A wind picked up, blowing CONTINUED ON PAGE AG tf Gov't inspected ° Swifts © by the piece — in te CRYOVAC . . . cae - ade _. Gov'tinspected * smoked p picnic shoulda ~ whole or shank portion oo ' ’ . aa . a Gov't inspected © Swifts - i} - .. bulkwieners [| previously frozen ® by-the piece: . 3 . lingcod | we reserve the right to limit quantities