Page A2; September 16, 1979 - Suriday News

‘After as summer ‘spent sailing one ‘would, think

I'd be Satisfied — but at almost every opportunity
‘when the call of the wind prevails we. cast off the
dock lines once again. We’re not alone, either —
it’s amazing: how, many boats head out in the

summer afternoons.

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I see . “people. in business’

clothes ‘busy changing .as
they motor. out to where the
wind is: blowing; one hand’on”

the’ tillerand.-the. other .

struggling | “with ‘tie and
jacket:...° -

One particularly. sunny
day -last : .week we were.
returning from a jaunt down
the Strait to. the Sand Heads
light station off the mouth of
the Fraser.

; We were on a close reach,
heading) NNW. Off the

" Starboard beam the familiar.

‘bluffs ‘ of |Wreck ° Beach

loomed, and almost directly

to the ‘north was the white
lighthouse at Point Atkin-
son. The Upper | Levels.
Highway cut an. uneven
swath across the green hills
of West Vancouver. At two
knots it was very hot, with
“the wind light from the west.

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mesiad, the

. twelve
", what looked like Sal family —

“We'd been sailing like that.

for hours, : the autopilot
‘doing the steering and the .
miles ‘slipping by slowly,
almost unfelt. The tide was
_favourable, with a slight
swell from the northwest and ~
_ the boat ‘seemed to be en-
‘joying herself, sliding over.

“the waves with a gentle:

‘ rocking motion.

The first whale blew off
the port side about a quarter
omile away. I heard the puff
and caught sight of its dorsal
fin as it slowly submerged. It |
was. an orca, the distinctive.
shape of the fin a dead give
away. Near it‘another whale
surfaced, more slowly, and
sounded with a smooth

- flowing motion that lifted it

almost right out of the water. ‘
It was followed by another,
‘and then another.

‘All in all we saw about
whales, including

sand:

yest were:
‘travelling ‘slower “than "the"
others; and every now and —

- then. jt looked as if. the

. juvenile was playing — its fin

would appear suddenly,
moving in the opposite
‘direction than it was

previously going. One whale
later came almost right out
of the water, with a great
‘splash. “ay

They stayed in view for
about fifteen minutes, and.
we hung breathless over the
cockpit coamings with the
binoculars glued to them.
And then suddenly they
were gone, as suddenly as
they had appeared.

DEAFENING NOISE

Overhead,

giant jets
periodically

deafened

everyone < ‘on : board” as they
took off and Ianded.at the
airport. The ““swell . was
getting higher,.

rollers as the wind began to
freshen. We tightened:1 ‘up the

sheets and the vessel began;..

to move along a little faster,

and a little: more exciting. It
was baking ‘hot in. the sun —
I went below to put on a pair
of cotton pants and a long

- sleeved shirt. _

The solar radiation was so
intense that in the cool

_/darkness of the cabin I could

feel it radiating back out
from my- skin — a sure in-
dicator of incipient sunburn.

- WHY RUSH?

‘A sailboat approached us
from stern, sails down and
engine droning along loudly.

The boat was doing about

one knot more than us, but
the’ noise Ievel was so high
that’ we heard him coming
for miles. I don’t know why
someone would power along
on such a gorgeous day with
the sails down.. Better three

knots sailing than four knots .

motoring, if the quality. of
your day is worth something
to you. :

After. a long time the
' vessel. dréw “up. to us and
began to: pull-ahead, but it

‘was an hour from that ‘time
- before’ the | _ drone: of his “

engine faded. away.

Many sailors prefer to turn
on the engine ‘and get home
‘in a hurty,’ Of course,
there's always. extenuating
circumstances, but I think
that it never works out to
make plans that are too
detailed for sailing days.

“When I. make a com-
mitment to be at a certain

‘ place at an arranged time it

almost never works out; and
I think the secret is to block
out sailing time in days and
not hours. For, if I don’t do
that I miss a lot of the peace
and tranquillity that; for me,
is one of the greatest at-
tractions of sailing.

WV students earn
$42,000 scholarships

West Vancouver students
garnered $42,000 worth of
provincial scholarships last
year, schools superintendent
Ed Carlin told trustees at
Monday's opening meeting
of the new school year.

Although the district was
cligible for only 18 $1,000-
scholarships, 34 were won ——
placing West Vancouver in
what Carlin called “the
enviable position of having
exceeded this margin by 89
percent.”

Apparently 16 opportunis-
tic students picked up

scholarships that were not
applied for by other districts.

The $8,000 in other
provincial scholarships was
topped by Antony Hodgson
of Hillside Secondary Schoo!
who ecarned the Governor
General's Bronze Medal for
his performance on_ the
scholarship exams.

His average oh the math-
science test was 93.85 per
cent. The silver medal
winner scored 93,87 per
cent. The gold medal always
goes toa college student.

a ripple |
appearing on the . glassy

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head chef Joshi

will ee

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the North Shore's first Teppanyaki
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The answer is yes. (Hai!) Teppanyaki is all these good things oe
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