represents.

.. little _time- to-feel-easier—on
‘the vessel. For the first little
_I worry about

the ‘ice chest

There’ 's always a 1 rush of things | to do: before we
go ‘sailing. Food. must ,be bought’ and packed

aboard, :
7 clothes towed, fuel- checked, oil topped up,

‘refilled, ‘decks washed, ©

water. tanks filled - the list is quite long, and the.

result is that by. the. time we are ready to untie the

dock lines I usually have a.sweat up and-also a“:
‘fairly: ‘high level of irritation. My arms feel an inch’ -
longer than normal from the weight of the sup-.
~ pliesand. gear-that must. pack from:the-car to the-

and an_ expérienced sailor.
He. said, that.we.

we ‘doing

oat, and the flow. of’ ‘stuff i iS never-ending.

“But, - “at last,

and .tossed - aboard.
sound of ‘that thumping: on
the deck seems to release: me

froma lot of pressure. As we .
put the vessel into gear and

begin to move away from the :

dock my feelings of irritation .
subside in direct proportion -

to the. distance from - the

dock and all the things it

the boat -
burbles: ‘at the dock and the
last mooring line’ is. untied-
The:

everything - “the ‘kids’ life
jackets, the oil pressure, the
-weather - but soon it all
‘drifts. away like. ‘smoke, and
then, at last, I truly feel we
/ are Sailing. ;

There’ s “something in-
-credibly exhilarating about a
fair wind and a fast sail. On
‘one of our gulf crossings

y

transom TI could see quite a
‘-bit of turbulence in the water
‘ behind the boat.

‘4

r suddenly remembered a

terrifying’ night ‘in. another

' boat, when ‘the engine failed,

recently the boat was in fine |

form, hissing along silently

Tf the-sky-is:‘blue
and the clouds puffy and
white the feelings go even
earlier!

I also seem to require a

there was no wind, and we.
were trying to negotiate
Portier Pass in the Dark.

That night I ‘pulled the 37.

foot Ferro Cement sloop that

I had chartered, with a row __

I. went to look - “over the .

with a steady fifteen knot. boat and tow line and a pair

south-east wind for
propulsion. She was heeled
about fifteen degrees, -with
the toe rail kissing the water.
We were doing five knots. ‘It

while

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‘may not seem like much

of oars, to a cove on the
north side of the pass.

Leaning on the rail of this

boat, looking at the water
going by, I realized how.

“much rowing I'd have to do

speed toa car driver, butina |
vessel move at the half-know

definitely very impréssi je -
at least, it never: ‘fails -to
‘impress me. The bow
smashes into the ‘waves,

sending: brilliant sparkles of

spray to either:side. Up the
mast the burgees crackle in
the wind, and on the stern
the Canadian ensign pops
and flutters and somehow
the thousand square feet of
sail overhead seems very
right. ;

TOO IMPATIENT

Of course, not all days are
windy enough to’ make the
boat heel over. In the old
days, when I was quite a bit
newer to sailing, I think I
was too impatient. When the
wind gentied out I used to
turn on the motor. But one
time, returning from a days’
outing, we were still a mile
or two from our destination
and the wind was very light.
I reached for the key, to turn
the engine on and “speed
things up”. Stanicy Burke,
publisher of the Nanaimo
Times and ex-CBC broad-

' ery révched over” and~**sail boat should Have at teas
-*stopped:my hand: “War are” “one oF twoTadiés es with bikinis

Ta

rd. US

to make this twenty-two ton

speed it was presently doing.
My urge to hit the starter
died at that moment.

SERENITY

“eh

We came in that day
under sail, motoring just the
last few feet. It took a little
longer, but it was a lot more
pleasant than having the
‘clatter of the engine un-
derneath our feet and the
stink of diesel in the air.
Thank you, Stanley Burke!

‘Some days when the wind
is light and the sun beams
down, sailing can be the
most quiet and serene ex-
perience. The boat glides
along slowly, sails set for
every possible breath of
wind. The~ helmsman
generally steers with his
toes, peering out from
underneath a broad brim-
med hat. All around, bodies
drape over eévery com-
fortable surface, glistening
with suntan oil. I thi

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The West Vancouver Fire
Department has issued a
reminder to residents that
backyard rubbish fires are
not permitted during
summer.

‘We get a lot of calls about
people — still burning
backyard rubbish,’ a fire
department spokesman said.

‘It is against municipal by-
laws and has been for the last
five or seven years.”

the

The spokesman said the
ban on burning applies from
May 15 to September 15.

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