B10 - Sunday, April 8, 1984 - North Shore News

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Surfers challenge

Georgia Strait

TWO LOCAL residents completed a crossing of must be pre-registered with
the Strait of Georgia on Saturday, March 30 under Yancouver Surfsailing.
sail. Not an unusual feat, except that this voyage  ®mYOne interested in moun-

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was completed on a windsurfer. escort boat, and should con-

any board with a treesail tact either Wayne or Ritchie
system, and all crossings at 732-3611

Wayne Hartrick and Rit-
chie King, both of Vancouver
Surfsailing Ltd) completed
the run from Nanaimo to
Vancouver on a twenty-two |
foot ‘‘tandem’' windsurfing

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conditions finally co
ordinated with the availabili-
ty of an escort boat and press
boat.

The crew left Vancouver at
8:00 am and pounded
across the Strait to the start
line at Entrance Island, just
outside of Nanaimo There
the board was launched, and
the sailors, finding mgging in
the water too difficult, were
forced to paddle ashore at
rocky Entrance Island
There, with the assistance of
the hghthouse keeper and his
young son the tedious rigging
and final preparations were
completed.

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