fireplace gad nied eS Se pants, wet from the. seats of. _ a the dinghy and the puddles - on shore... After. dinner~ it~ ‘wasn’t long. before everyone “was yawning - the fresh air of ‘ee - a. day. spent. “Sailing” ‘makes © ” early sleepers of just about — everyone. ‘The adults had a cup. of coffee’ in. the: _. wheelhouse, ‘and as dark» - descended, one. by one, » they all went below. | - - - I waited ine wheelhouse, - solitude. The ‘wind was. from “the. ‘south, ‘and sheltered by a small ‘spit that _-sticks out of the east side of Anvil Island. All around ‘us. "| 1139.Lonedale Avenue, | V7M 2H4- _OFFICE/NEWS _ - (604) 980-0511 | CLASSIFIED CIRCULATION. 986-1337 G Sua | . ‘Publisher Peter Speck - Associate Publisher BobGraham . Editor-In-Chief . Noel Wright , Managing Editor Andy Fraser News Editor. Chris Lloyd: Photos | ‘Ellsworth Dickson | | Advertising ' Director — Eric Cardwell | Trattic Manager Donna Champion Classified . Berni Hilliard | Circulation Yvonne Chapman Administration | Barbara Haywood Accounts Syivia Sorenson North Shore News, foun- ded In 1969 as an Iindopen- ., dent community nowspaper and qualified under. Schod- ule 111, Part 111, Para- graph 111 of the Excise Tax — Act, is published each | Wednosday and Sunday by - the North Shore Free Press Lid. and. distributed = to Cvory uder or the Marth Shore. Second Class--Mall . _Rogistration Numbor 3885. ° ' VERIFIED CIRCULATION 47,001 Entira contents © 1976 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. — . ‘making ‘my_ coffee last and enjoying the. _ North Vancouver, B.C... | . Awakened by. the ‘pitching. “motion of the vessel, Tpulled “was. holding: or not. Dos ~ lights. of cars. could - see: strong: arms ‘to, operate | it. Oh, for aj power winch! : After they had secured it . “we motored out of the bay “and into Howe Sound. The — wind was about twenty knots “by that time, from the north, and . once | we. turnea | the’ “corner at the end of the spit the wind: blew us south. I _ waited until the end of the ‘spit went by. and then we motored into the small bay on the other side of the spit. After much peering in the — blackness we found another | ‘Spot "to anchor and tied up - again, hoping that the wind didn’t’ -change again by ‘morning. It didn’t. GLORIOUS SAILING. ‘It was a clear, morning. The wind had died down by six or so, and by the | -time we had breakfasted and hoisted. the anchor it had switched back to ‘southerly again..and..was. blowing .a Steady ten to fifteen knots. It was ideal sailing weather. We sailed out of: the an- _ chorage into Howe Sound, destination Vancouver, with spirits high. The boat heeled as'we trimmed the sails and she began to hiss through the water in fine form. With the engine off the only sound aboard was the engine room blowers, ventilating the last of the diesel. fumes and smoke from the engine room, and once they were - Howe: Sound i is ‘penerally not i favoured: “by! - direction. in the. “night. “st : they ss seemed to be. there ‘only oe - on my pants and went up My ‘to: make: the blu -into the cockpit. The waves’ ™ were. now marching steadily - _ into the small ‘bay where we fet “ito swung: ‘at anchor, and ‘the’. wind was getting stronger. I. * went: back for. a shirt and oe then went. out: on deck and: ae “puta. chafing ‘guard | on the: on n-: the anchor. rods. After’ ‘that. ‘it ee ount “bearings. to see if the anchor al Anvil ‘Island, _ turned :to- beat: back aC = “the © ‘Sound. “When ‘one is — ‘sailing itis. ‘not. possible. to fF - sail directly into the wind: @ -To make southward progress 4 Be against a southerly. wind itis: . mecessary to ‘tack’ --- make | 7 “Tt. was. very dark «by then, : - ‘but T could: ‘make out the on. -the. Squamish | highway, ‘and: I . ¢ \some: .other . | stationary: * lights - as well. After: a few’. minutes «of. - ~_watehing i ii became. ‘obvious © ‘to.me that we were dragging - and then to the -anchor. I woke up my crew - -and started. the diesel; and — wind direction." they’ started: thelong process ~ _.oOf raising the-'anchor with — our ‘Armstrong’ winch. We -:eall it that. because it takes | to. the Squamish ° highway » | Hudson - ‘heading: down ; the — ‘were’ going to arrive at the mS ; ~ scrambled on deck to’see it, she was, gleaming cylinders . J turn almost right under the ° | sunny " back out into the Sound, We of the past ‘that still, func- eS “u Frame & structural parts on Wneei housings & fianges _ for | me A ; Anew v rust # inhibiting : and undercoating s system by Dominion. Sure Seal’. 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