’ than the hotel -

@ Z- - August 3i, i977 -

Tuesday had the first stitrings of wind.
nice to feel it. We had been motoring in the
sailboat for days, and I was getting tired of the

noise and vibration, not to mention the general . brought —
-smelliness of the apparatus. |

By noon the wind was

fresher. We rounded the tip
of Malaspina Peninsula. At.

Sarah Pcint the breeze was
from the southeast, about
fifteen knots, and we decided

to turn the engine off and -

sail. As soon as the sails

were up the boat heeled over

and started to move more
smoothly through the water.

Hertha Shere News

TEULEH TELE TETT TEEEELEETLLEL i EE

the bench-style seating en-

courages informality and

conversation. Creaking stairs

lead to accommodations up-
stairs. A big, unused purch

overlooks the government normal.
‘marina. The place is worn, |

down, .

clean, comfortable °

and honest. I like it.

When I shut off the engine_

were the creak of ropes and

_ the fluttering of the jib.

room blowers the only noises. | :

The yacht settled down to

a long clear tack through
dark blue swells, and in the
wheelhouse . Mary and I
talked about going to the
Lund Breakwater Inn for a
dinner away from the boat.
We could tie up'in the marina
near the hotel, just a few feet
from.the dining room. Our
thirteen-year old guest,
babysitter and  co-sailor,
Janet, could look after John,
age fourteen months, and

on why not? It was a holiday..;.

“Lund isa small community

-.. about twenty. miles north of -
- Powell River. It:is the end of

the road that runs up the

Sunshine Coast, and getting.
there involves a ferry ride. _

FIRE DOWN BELOW!

From the wheelhouse I .

could see smoke coming: from _ black. The

the stovepipe, and asked if
there was a fire in’ the

fireplace. Janet, it turned .
out,

was. burning some

garbage. But the’ fire was

fact - and we took advantage |

works well on the port tack.
‘the end of the first leg, about. 4

drawing well - very well, in

of the heat to burn much of

the debris one inevitably Gyr
accumulates while travelling " sea

on a boat.
" Alas. For. the fireplace

But. when we came about at

li was started

to smoider. Mary
pried it from the fireplace,
‘and, armed with oven mitts,
put it into a metal bucket and’
up toe
wheelhouse. Her eyes were
red and she was smudged
with smoke.‘‘I guess we can "t
use the fireplace when we’re
sailing on that tack’’ was all
she had to say. The ember
hissed into the sea, I turned
the boat back to Lund, and
everything was

The weather. was picking

_ up, and so were the waves, i

recorded a twenty-five knot...
.-wind-on'my hand-held wind

gauge. The clouds to the |
were greasy and f[

southeast

of water between the end of._
the Gulf of Georgia. and -
Lund,: and the wind: had a
long contact with the water
and a good chance of
imparting a lot of its energy
in the form of waves. A
south-easter blowing up the
can set up.a very. stiff .
around Texada Island. I

_was glad that we were only a

~~ few miles. from Lund, which .
was clearly visible.

:Lund got closer. I planned
lr next move. What. I-

‘a half-mile from the rocky. ‘wanted to do was to make a

shores of Hernando Island, _aif-circle in the area outside...
we found that it didn’t work: the breakwater’and head up
at all-on the starboard tack. into the wind: The sails could
-On. the contrary... On . the

starboard tack the mainsail

. backwinded: down the-chim- =the. gap in.the breakwater -

The population of Lund is

about 400, ‘if you count the
dogs and cats’. There are

only 2 few businesses ‘other

boat repair yard, and a craft
shop. The hotel is cailed the
Lund Breakwater Inn, and i
has been there a long time. I
stayed there ten years ago,
and the intervening years
have aged me more than it.

The place has a gentle air
of faded glories, untouched
by interior decorators. Sepia
photographs adorn the walls,
and the ancient carved bar in
‘the dining room was once in
service on a ship. The coffee
shop serves good food to
locals and tourists alike, and

a marina and

ney. with such force: that. the
boat was instantly’ filled with
choking clouds of ‘smoke. -It
happened.so fast that the
smoke detector went off

then be dropped and furled .
and: we could motor through: |

; and find. moorage inside.

SURPRISE ciTy

As we neared. the break-

before 1 had brought. the water'l put the diesel engine”
- yacht entirely around to the into neutral and started it.

new heading. Mary scramb-

iéG below into the smoke -

while I turned the boat back:
through the eye of the wind,

_ torelieve the backwinding. it
stopped smoking instantly, -

but we were then heading
towards the beach at Her-
nando again. The baby had

been wakened by the rasping | tight outside the breakwater
buzz of the smoke alarm, and _- and pointed up into the wind.

his cries added to the
confusion.

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from a previous

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fire © had can’t hold it here forever’’.

It’s my precaution leerited
throush ernerience, as it

We aeeyes w~ee~ Swen e
allows me to manoeuvre
should something go wrong,
and it also reassures me that

the engine will start. Janet.
and Mary -got on their life.

jackets and went on deck.
The boat made a. big turn.

The sails began to flap and I
~tooted the horn. That’s our.
signal for “It’s OK to drop
the sails now, but hurry up - I

The ladies seemed to be
having difficulties with the
‘mainsail. I had asked them to |
' leave the staysail up, and the .
cutter was hard to steer as it.

Finally I had the wheel hard —
over, we were dead in the |
water and the bow was
beginning to blow around,
and still the mainsail flogged —
over ‘my head. I put the
engine into gear and began
to apply the power

‘the wind again, and the .
engine failed. I watched with -

| stunned disbelief as the

needle came to rest on the
bottom of the rev counter.
-The engine died with that air

that, whatever the trouble, it
is not going to be fixed by

ling around = with the

accelerator. And it wasn’t,
either.

Mary cate back to report

— jammed firmly in the winch
housing and the mainsail was

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