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hore News sailing race

ly. upon
North: Shore. News. - Sailing.

“AB if on “cue, Poseidon poked -
his head. from the Georgta Strait.’
waters and: exhaled’ ‘mightily to’
whip | up” a: comfortably. com-’

petitive. westerly breeze . just’ in.

time for the 10:10 a.m. race start.

of. divine intervention, 66 (of. 68
entered sailboats circled” ‘slowly ©

on the glass-smooth waters at the’

Dundarave’ Pler. and

iB
‘tack south-westerly from the start”
line to make the first marker. at.

starting point situated - between
the. race
committee boat.

First to. capitalize. on the
three-to-five knot miracle breeze
and first ackons the start fine was
the. 27-foot sloop, Loon, skip-
pered by Roger Siw. >

A. third ‘of the ‘pack chose to

Point ‘Atkinson’ while the rest
determined: competitive advan-
tage fa moving north towards the
West Vancouver Coastline for the
firct leg. .

_BY. 10:30 2. m. Abe winds were

gusting to eight to 10 knots, pro.”
viding enough fuel for the most
wind-wise of. race tacticians : to

round the Point Atkinson marker:

by Just after IL a.m.

The :44-foot Dream Machine,
skippered by Chuck “Thumper”
Ramsay, was first around the
marker at/11:10 a.m. ‘Six minutes

_ later the ‘36-foot : soap: Vitava, |
skippered by Dr. Ernst Frinton,”
rounded |
Malcolm Sparrow swung the 41-.

the. polnt. Skipper
foot sloop, Nostradamus around
the marker, 2. tlyht one "minute
behind Yitava.

‘See Droam

ing Club. on Granville'Island, “worked relatively: Inexperienced pack

of salty dogs into a winning crew. duri Sunday’ s Lith ‘annual: North

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