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“The first long tack out of Fisherman’ s ‘Cove Was transom brackets and store it
exhilarating. The:-wind. was blowing. westerly, _ on deck before the sea gets
about: ‘twenty nots; with waves about four feet: ¥P- |
and quite’ close together. We passed -from the
blue-black | waters of Howe Sound into the muddy
light-brown silt carried north by the tide, from the

- The famous London Bobby comes to us from England via.
| Churchill Ss 's English Pub in Waikiki, Hawaii

SOAKED THROUGH -
We were both relieved to

Fraser River.

As we progressed the wind
. appeared to freshen, and the

vessel buried her lee rail in-

the -water. The hydraulic
steeting. groaned with the
* strain on the rudder. A great
deal of spray blew aboard,
and wipers. were. necessary
for ‘any ‘kind of forward
vision. -

Just then we hit a . large
wave. She lost her handgrip
and backpedalled down to
the lee side of the galley,
ending up with a bang
against the door to the head.
Determined, she tried again.
This time she made it to the
stove and got the kettle on,
but I didn’t have the heart to
watch her actually make the
coffee.

____—Down-in- the: ‘galley Mary —

tried valiantly to. organize
coffee. But P've neverireally
realized what difficulty a five
foot nothing. person has with
a sloping ‘galley. floor,
especially-when it slopes

away from. ‘the stove. I.
, . perched "in the.

cam-

panionway and watched her
‘strugele uphill to the sink.
. She hooked ‘her elbows into
the sink bowl while she filled
the. kettle, and’ then she
‘began: to. climb: up the ‘last
few feet to the stove.

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‘AHOT TIME

One time when I was

‘doing it, the kettle full of
boiling water escaped from

my fingers and crashed down
at my feet, causing some fast
footwork and a few choice
words. But she’s done it
before, many times, and
she’s got a system worked

‘out.

The motion of the boat

- became extreme as we

neared the bell buoy off

Point Grey. I gauged the
". leeway we were making and

laid out the next tack on the

: chart. Our objective was to

get up to Secret Cove, and

- from the marks on the chart

it was obvious we would be a
long time achieving the
security of the harbour.

Just then a _ terrific
crashing noise echoed
throughout the vessel as the
dinghy broke loose from its
mounting brackets. A big
wave had filled it and the
mahogany pieces holding
the brackets on were
reduced to matchwork. The
dinghy was still secured by a

_ line to its upper gunwale, but |

it made a terrific clatter as it
banged against the transom
of the sailboat.

Kim brought the vessel
around and we attempted to
heave-to while we secured
the errant dinghy. But we
were flying the jib topsail
that day. It’s cut very high
and is quite narrow.
Heaving-to is dependent on
the wind pressure against
back sails counteracting the
force of the rudder, making
the boat stop dead in the
water, but drift sideways
relatively slowly. Ellsworth
and I dismounted the dinghy
and pulled it alongside
preparatory to putting it on
deck, However, in this case
the jib topsail let enough air
slip by to fill the main and
staysail. By that time the
vessel was moving along
through the water again,
despite the backed topsail,
and the dinghy became
harder and harder to get
alongside and hitch up to the
halyard.

We managed all right, in
the end, but it was a very
difficult task with the dinghy
full of water and a vigorous
sca to contend with. The
moral of this part of the story
is to take the dinghy off the

-.the actual distance over the

quite smooth. We cleaned

- alog boom.

_ five.

get in the shelter of the
cockpit again. A sea had
broken over Elisworth as he
lay in the pulpit, pulling on
the dinghy painter, and he
was soaked through. I wasn’t
feeling too dry, either!

The coffee arrived. It was.

obvious to me by this time

that the weather was not :

getting any better. We were
making about five knots, but
the motion. was extreme and

bottom to
jective hardly
all. So we decided = to

our ob-

abandon our plan to go.

against the wind and instead
we sailed back into Howe
Sound and the relative calm

of the sheltered water

behind Bowen Island.

The sailing was sur-
prisingly good there. Enough
wind came around
Point to give us a steady four
knots, and the water was

up the debris and decided to
go up. to Centre Bay on
Gambier Island and tie up to

The run up Howe Sound
changed over to a reach
across the channel to
Langdale. The wind was very
obliging. The speedometer
needle flickered and started

to rise. Four knots became .

four and a half, and then

SPEED ON WATER

At five and a half knots the
sensation of speed was very
strong. It's amazing to me
how sixty miles per hour on

the freeway can seem to be —

standing still while on the
boat six miles an hour is
almost enough to make me
want to “yahoo”.

It was dark by the time we
entered Centre Bay. We
sailed right in to the bay and
turned up into the wind. The
last puffs of air wafted us
gently into the logs and the
vessel came to a stop on her
own accord. I drove in the
log dogs and tied her up
behind Jeremy Tanner's
boat, “Freedom”, ai %
tonner.

It was very peaceful and
pleasant place to be,
especially after the taste of
the westerly that we had that
afternoon. We made dinner
and then turned in. As I was
drifting off to sleep I
wondered about the many
off-shore cruising boats that
arc travelling around the
world at this time.

Being tied up to something
as secure as a log boom
makes me sleep better. |
wonder just how [d do out
there in the Pacific with the
nearest log boom five
thousand miles away

asing at.

Menu includes: Cornish’ Pasties - British Fish & Chips
[ee : ‘Steak & Kidney: Pie - English Sausage Rolls

Full dinners available in the Attic, the Dining Room or the
Chicken House with Pub Fun before or after

Open: Mon. to Fri. 6 to 12 PM Sunday 6 to 10 PM e Closed
Saturday

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