_. are Captain Tocher -and‘his’: crew of two faring? That ‘was’: the.question: still being asked . . at press time as radio silence - . continued .. from. the:.dugout:: Indian;canoe in’ which:West... Vancouver’s Geordie Tocher, ».- together with Gerhard Kiésel. and Karin’ Lind, ‘set sail. a. - week ago for Hawaii... The optimistic assumption: ° : to date: is that: thé: radio. installed in the Orenda™ is malfunctioning. ..This:' hap- ress $s _ pened during tests: of the -.even with its other problems, equipment: last. week, just nli before the small but. sturdy -twin-hulled vessel left: Neah . Bay on:the Olympic Penin- sula for the open ocean. - Orenda has encountered any pas | ‘‘They can see those CP. -. An alternative explanation | is Geordie himself. Before leaving he let it be known. them. and: they can get in more than once that he was “touch with any hips out ‘ not bothered about. having a. radio aboard and that the last thing he wanted was to make: ath f daily broadcasts. — “stubborn.”’ - |. A. comparatively. unam- ‘spect, .we. should . have bitious’entertainment pack-' pushed. harder for more age coupled with perfect people and a bigger enter- beach weather. kept: the “itainment package.’" crowds away from the... —.. sla Paradise Bowl music festival __ at. the top. of Grouse Mountain — Saturday . Sunday.. ey organisers were..adopting a a a +. . Cautious approach.: — | At the first of the mountain |. ~ re top festivals. two weeks’). : °° °° 0 oo eatlier, “ management had ' expressed mild. satisfaction — ‘of beamiing ‘distress signals, _ she feels it is unlikely the - Air flights .going © overhead. every day “and could call. there. If there was bad news. . 1 think. we would have heard. ‘| think: Geordie’ is being His explanation of the low © ~and.: crowd figures was’ that::the-- : He ‘says:. ‘We had ‘inten- - : at ‘drawing 6,000 and said. tionally not programmed for ; “But in’ all - fairness,”’ Dorothy. adds as an after- thought, ‘‘I think he would — all..every few days if the —— adio' was working proper- ver if all is:going well. - over a_two-and-a-half-year period out of a ‘Douglas fir log, following an historic Haida Indian design. His objective is to prove a theory that the Haida Indians | sailed from B.C. to Hawaii many hundreds of years ago. | “". He made an initial attempt — ‘in 1971:in an earlier canoe,: © - that in future they hoped ; huge .crowds. -We ‘felt that [aay \they’d be needing to restrict But the busiest: moments: could handle. oo of last-weekend were Friday NS -hight and drew: about 5,500. oe people,. whereas: the num- bers never got far above the weekend. . | OVER CAUTIOUS < .. now feel we wete'a'little too Ce . ‘light. as ‘far as the entertain- _ Grouse Mountain manager ment pack Gary Kiefer says:.‘‘In retro- cerned.” ' “But we’ now’-feel. totally © 3,000 mark for the rest of the . confident :we.can ‘handle a ~ | _ large crowd after Friday and ‘f the promoters and ourselves § age. “Was con- - 3 with “the fitst:, three-day [> numbers to 10,000: °° "; Weekend festival'we should-.. | = n't .bite off more; than we fa ' 4 but was shipwrecked near - first. sailéd: to Seattle. After. ae oo an official welcome there, the 9 . According to West Van-— is. ] 7 , $99°7| FRE PARKING. || 88 DAILY 10 AM to 6 PM THURS. &FRILOPM __980-S781