"page 2, May 17, 1978.- North Shore NORTH VAN. RESIDENT ‘Martin | illerchip with Sheila Smyth during the — o Vagabond Players production of Billy Liar. Millerchip, an actor who received - | his training in England plays the title role of Billy. Two other North Van residents, Peter Leeming and Tom Lawrence also have parts in the play which runs tonight through Saturday at the Vagabond Playhouse i in Queen's s Park, : . New Westminster. (Terry Peters: Photo) But this? He and his two _ friends, - Gerhard Kiesel,. who were making: the historical voyage - with him, overwhelmed. were almost The TV crews “buzzed about them, noses, everybody was trying _.to shake. their hands and . speak to them: at once. ‘Someone tried introducing: ion by presenting Geordie with a charter to deliver to some society in: Hawaii. | Karin smiled. at me. “Pm not apprehensive;”’ **I feel very peaceful. But I’m anxious. to get out on the $9 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, 8.C. 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"dancers gathered alongside — the dugout canoe to sing ‘good luck -.songs,. busied . himself loading the: Geordie — Orenda. “Come on; Chtis,. let? Ss get. going,’? he -said to me. I stepped into the main hull and Geordie~ started the Johnston 9.9 motor or,.as the . calls it, “the 9.9: Indians.” "We pulled away from the . quayside lined with. people “waving; .- cheering and boat horns. As we made our way out into the . “middle. of Burrard Inlet,: all . ‘some formality to the occas- _ ‘amid the. din of kinds. of other boats followed - -. Suit until we were soon at the. head of a. 1 large procession. it was pretty cramped. ‘in the hull ° ‘among the 700. pounds: of groceries ‘and all — peopie secing the Orenda off -- Geordie’s two daughters and his. friends - Harrison Layton, at the rudder, and ; his wife Joan. . It was a 1 strange sensation. - and I couldn’t quite believe I was there. Not .when_ I thought back to just a few months ago when I'd inter- viewed Geordie as he chop- . ped away at the canoe he was. building out of a fir tree. But yes, here we all were, crowded together on_ this beautifully finished Haida canoe which was _ actually doing what Geordie had always said it. would do -- going to Hawaii. I came out of my daze as Geordie called to me from the outrigger where he was Standing, inviting me to join him there. How I wished I'd brought a | floater jacket with me as I. cautiously edged my ~~ way over the planks to the second - hull, with Geordie steadying | me, Harrison and Geordie opened up the 9.9 Indians‘ and we were under way and as J began to realise just how solidly the Orenda was built r felt relieved, : I thought . Geordie had picked a rotten. day for a launching, as the rain lashed my face. : “y had three psychics pick this day. I'll have to see them about this,’” he chuckled. We were surrounded by boats but it seemed infinitely less intense than the crowd scenes back al the wharf, “As a “group of. ‘Polynesian have good’ weather,"’ horns, sounding like a church As Geordie ‘and Gerhard started hoisting the sails, the crew was. able. to begin unwinding from it all and “look forward to the coming solitude. 1 chatted. with Karin about 7 her feelings. ‘‘It’s a: pretty od overwhelming - ‘feeling - have all these people” oat here to see us off, ” "she said. “There - are. haven’ t seen for two or. three . years. I'm. not one for: too much of. this. though. a “People do : say- the. nicest | ; things: Someone. said some- ‘thing I hadn’t heard ina long: . _time.-They said ‘God speed’. ]. and I thought, that was preity 7 nice.”” <” ” Geordie joined us. “iy sa: _ tremendous scene,’ the other gear. Pius the other _ > he said. ‘‘Overwheiming. it gets me- > right i in the: heari.”*. Karin added: ‘‘We all ect a tear once in a while.” The water \ was getting just a little choppy and-the boats: all about us were bobbing} about. But we just glided . onward and I quickly ‘found ; myself becoming - more. confident for Geordie and his friends. 4 Yes,. I really ‘could. see: . them actually making ‘it. | As we. came out from: under Lions. Gate Bridge we . could ‘see the sky ‘Clearing - : over Vancouver Island. - “Maybe we'll be lucky and said ” Gerhard. ‘With ‘no 30 foot. _waves."" Geordie. * ‘had already experienced that, back in '72 - when he started on the same ‘trip in the Orenda I and got. smashed up on rocks at San ; Francisco in a storm. ‘In a dangerous situation | you become very calm,’’ assured Karin. ‘‘When you think about it-coming you get very fearful, but when it’s happening you're calm."” — | Frank Baker pulled along- | side, his yacht. drenched with. hanging baskets.of flowers. : The spectacle struck. me as « both beautiful and. ridicu-. | lous, as did the deafening - music he blasted at us through his array of boat organ. | F _ p wow . ws He played a “couple of hymns and Karin was clearly: touched, She remembered CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 , hee OPO a le ey ‘ * soe oe Earner nO nr nr SER DR ORE CO CE CO “OE sows moor wee - people y | _ “ra 4 oo a . age. sia : Have yolr got a deck to deck? 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