a ar Page A2, August 15,1979 - North Shore News “PART il I’m still a little. nervous ‘about anchoring Plumper overnight, not so much as before, but enough so - speckslations te Db: y Peter S peck. or SO Mae ee 4 Notes from the log “ that sometimes nights are sleepless. Every whistle of wind in the rigging and every slap of waves . against the ‘hull registers on my consciousness. - ~ ° This was, one of. those more - nights, perhaps because of. the late-night coffee than from any danger of dragging anchors. We were ~ anchored. off Saturna Island. I tossed :and - turned in my bunk for a long -* time,. _Femembering another ‘ occasion in a less protected harbour where the . wind changed direction in the middle of the night, and a protected bay turned into a .wave-lashed lee shore. That particular adventure was one which I'd rather not repeat. Three years old woke for a peepee. It was nice to have some company, éven for a few minutes; ds I helped the little warm being out of his bunk and into the head. But ~he- was. asleep afew seconds. after returning to bed, and I north shore news 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 OFFICEINEWS . (604) 980-0511 CLASSIFIED 986-6222 CIRCULATION 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Bob Graham . Editor-in-Chiet Noet Wright Managing Editor Andy Fraser News Editor Photos-7* “ee ., Ellsworth. Wn. Advertising Difector Enc Cardwetl Traffic Manager Donna Champion Production Twn Francis Faye McCrae Classified Berni Hittard Administration Andrew Watters Accounts Sytvia Sorenson h Shore News, founded m 69 as an independent community newspaper and qualified undor hedule 111. Part 111. Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday and Sunday by the! North Shore Free Press Lid and astibuted to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885 VERIFIED CIRCULATION 49,503 Entire contents 1979 Nonh Ghore Free Prone Lid. All rights reserved was alone with the vessel again. I found a book and read for a while : NO SLEEP By seven a.m. sleep was dragging me down into its _ warm embrace. Eight year old woke then, then three yéars again, and any thought of sleep was over. As first galley cook for the day it was my job to make breakfast, which, of course, included coffee. After breakfast and dishes it was my ‘off’, and I sat in the cockpit with a cup of the stuff, remembering the words of my doctor. “You're very clever there, Peter,” he said, as we shared a meal. “You're putting cream in your coffee —-sert--of-like-- drinking the poison and the antidote out of ‘the same cup!” It was very calm, and by eight o’clock in the morning it ‘was already quite hot. A crab boat worked the harbour where we anchored, picking up the traps that he had set the night before. There was no wind at all, and the surface of the bay was like a mirror while the crew rigged an awning over the cockpit. We call it the ‘African Queen’ because it looks something like the canvas cover that decorated the steam launch made famous in the Humphrey Bogart movie of the same name. After the anchor came up we motored out of the bay and headed south to A Quebec man was in West Vancouver Friday jailed for two years for a guns offence and faces the possibility of further charges of committing bank rob- beri¢és on the North Shore, pending investigations by West Van Police. Jean Y ves Goacolou, aged 26, was jailed when he pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing unregistered, restricted weapons — a 357 Magnum and a .32 Barctta, Charges against him of possessing a concealed weapon were stayed by the Crown. Judge Nancy Morrison said that as he had already in West Van ¢ Sound, motor-" sailing in a light breeze. It was my first trip .through | American customs by boat, and I was. apprehensive about the amount of time involved. ‘PRETTY AGENT At Roche Harbour we... went through U.S. Customs. My apprehensions were ill- founded. The customs of- ficer was young, blonde, female and very pretty, not to mention pleasant. We were through in minutes * with’ a cruising permit that -somehow I promptly lost. Alas, but more about that in future i issues. . . By 2:30 in the ‘afternoon: there was a five-knot-breeze, and with sails only as propulsion we were making 2.2 knots. The wind became very flukey as we entered the channel between Shaw and Orcas Islands, but we were all sick of the motor noise and toughed it through the i ee winding chamnels under sail.“ “ SHEETING INTHE MAIN SALE, young Jim pulls for all he is worth as we tack towards Orcas Island in the San Juans. (Ellsworth Dickson photo) The tide set us along quite well, and the light wind was oe mostly useful: for steering the « a . aed Fish and Chips Wed., Thurs. & Fri. (Aug. 15, 16 & 17) around Broken Point to anchor in Blind Bay on Shaw- — Island, a large bay surrounded by farmland. It was quiet and peaceful there, with only the wash from the delightfully old and tickety Washington State ferries to rock us from time to time. The sailing dinghy was rigged then and the crew took turns in the bay, but the wind died away to nothing and the oars were used a lot. Later we played Scott Joplin tapes and talked in the cockpit until very late, and this time when I turned in I didn’t have any trouble going to sleep. iled. er ae steers: iy Lhe Nm mall Steuer: served one month “dead time” while awaiting trial she would consider it double time and subtracted two months from his sentence, making a total of one year 10 months, ‘Large order — 3 pieces of fish *1.69 Offer good at this location only! Goacolou was arrested last month as a result of a stakeout by West Van Police detectives at Park Royal last month as a result of two bank robberies being carried out thete previously. He was arrested after § ( being seen acting . suspiciously outside the 404 L d | 987 41 31 Canada Trust‘building which ons a e ™ had previously been robbed.