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Tt started to get dark much: faster | than 1 ex-

pected. We sailed on the. southwest side. of

Gabriola Island and I looked desperately for an

anchor spot: I remembrred a ‘possible anchorage

between Mudge and Link Island, but it turned out -
to’ be- fairly deep and ‘unsafe on a southerly wind.

Several. logbooms — however. looked very con-

venient to tie up to. :

_. Shall we - or shall we not?

It’s not really that difficult to
make a decision when things
look easy. Bow and sternline
held firm on to the solid iron
rings of the most outer log,
but the fenders played a silly
game with us,

“GHhey had no ‘intention
whatsoever to Stop the log
from banging against the
hull. I tried to tie them
sideways right. above the
waterline, but the log pushed
--them simply upwards. ‘The
fenders. needed weights.

‘After losing the heaviest”

' cooking pot, and finding the
cast iron frying pan didn't do
the job, someone came up
with the right answer -
weightbelts. We could relax.

But during the night a light
wind from the south sneaked

up on us - see.

started: again.

log at midnight is no fun, but
I managed to tie - ‘more
weights to the fenders. The
whole logboom was in
motion. and I took the
chance on slipping and be
crushed between them.

The wind changed sud-
denly and pushed the hull a
foot away from the log.
Great, ‘no fenders were
necessary now. Why not
earlier? Dead tired, I
crawled into by bunk,

hoping for some peace and .

quict. .

My rest couldn't jave
lasted more than an hour,
when a deaféning sound
made me sit upright in my
bunk. “What was that,”
someone shouted from the

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At that moment the
wheelhouse was lit by an
outside floodlight. My tired
eyes._searched for the in-
truder, but the bright light

. made it impossible. to see.

Outraged I leaped’ on deck,

the crew right behind me. _
Two ‘séearchiights jumped

on us immediately and the
horn blared into the night. I
raised my arms in disgust
and shook my fists towards
the lights. Sudden darkness.

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“used to the
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|: ttugboats. Its crew. was busily
at work to fasten lines and,

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As soon as my eyes got
darkness, I
two huge

heavy cables on ‘the boom. It
didn’t occur to me yet what
these guys were up to. No
one in his right mind: would.

think of taking this. logboom.

in tow at. 1 o’clock in the
morning. But the’ activities

- across , the logs “in “indicated

exactly that,

I looked around me. Tired

Someone said. “Let’s go

_back to bed. These guys felt

like bugging us, that’s all.” I
wasn't so sure. But it tumed

quiet. around the. tugboats —

and it really -looked like
nothing: exciting was going to

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‘disappeared below: I slipped

. into a. warm sweater and sat
on deck,’. resting myself.

against the mast, eyes fixed

at the. tugs..But not for very.
long. _The heavy -eyelids’

needed. a rest. When my
back slipped sideways off the

Supporting mast, I woke up.

The gurgling sound of water
alarmed me. We were

- moving: And: there was the
floodlight a again. These guys .

were towing the whole

: logboom, including the boat.

" They must have just:
we hadn't

realized that
untied the lines: Sure
enough, there-was that crazy
foghorn again. “Shut up,” I
shouted. angrily. The. log was
banging louder and louder

ceainst | the hull. It was time

to act.

To j jump on to: the moving .

log to untie the lines was out
of the question. Boat and
boom moving through .the

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guys pulled i in the slack, and

. the expensive mooring lines

disappeared over the side.

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