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THE CUTTER IS FULL of young Cadets waiting to go.

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A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT as the ship, filled with young Sea Cadets regularly goes on

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By KARL BEGRICH

The: North and West

Vancouver. Sea Cadets have

‘a -great -winter - training
“program ahead - of. them,

thanks to the R.C.S.C.C.
Lonsdale. But the boys and -
girls are not limited to local

‘Corps training.’ They par-

ticipate -in many. national
programs, including a

. Summer exchange program
‘to. Europe and the United

States. . So .

‘Each year, more than 5000
Sea Cadets from across
Canada spend part of their
summer at H.M.C.S. Quadra

. near Comox,-B.C. or similar

Cadet Training. Establish- _
ments across Canada.

“The summer program
ended.a couple of weeks ago
at H.M.C.S. Quadra and I
was fortunate to be part of
the last days activities.
Captain Lawson, skipper of
the only Canadian Sail
Training ship for Sea Cadets,
the 72’ Ketch ‘Rainbow’,
invited me aboard to sail the -
ship to its winter berth in
Esquimalt, (Victoria)!

The activity at the training
Sight was enormous.
Hundreds of young boys and
girls were buzzing up and
down the docks with bright |
red lifejackets around their
shoulders.

Their morning exercise
consisted of a sail-row
competition around a three
mile course. They jumped
into 20° whalers, who had a
gaff rigged mainsail and a
tiny missensail. But instead
of hoisting the sail, each
cadet grabbed a paddle and
waited for the whistle.

Five whalers with 12
cadets in each boat raced
across the bay with sur-
prising speed. When they
reached the first marker, the
paddles were stowed away
and the sails hoisted. At the
second marker the sails were
dowsed in a hurry and 8’ oars
were pushed over the rail.
Loud rhythm commands of
the boatsmen kept the oars
at the right beat tuntil they
reached the finish line. The
victory songs lasted another
half an hour before training
continued,

Captain Lawson explained
to me that he takes‘each day
12 cadets aboard ‘Rainbow’.
They have a chance to
practice at first hand coastal

‘navigation, proper Sea-

manship and learn to sail a
large vessel.

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as

Advanced Sea Cadets are

taken on two to three day
Sailing trips to Desolation

Sound. “The cadets are very
well behaved. Difficulties
occur very. seldom, but
foreign cadets give me once
in a. while a headache”,
mused Captain Lawson. The -
Swedes, French and Ger-
mans use their native sailing
terms and I’ve to dig well
into my. past to remember
some of my school french.”:

The. most = challenging
training is the ‘Outward
Bound’ program. The 40-
year-old 32’ open cutters,
the same type Captain Bligh

. was set adrift in, are used for

this adventure. The kids are
sent on a five day cruise —
and all they get is a
chocolate bar. They have to
pass various checkpoints,
and the training officers
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