attempt at single-handed -
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‘quite '“ nervous * about’ ‘S
decision‘ to‘slip away for a
of son aloz my myself For

on was West
Gambier Island.
from the dock
in Ss ‘Cove we

ing a bit, nervous.
é ? familiar routine ‘of .

$ coiled my , fear
34 completely

Howe Sound with fe “motor
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time I was.fe ling just:
upping

‘from. the my sand reads.

knots, steady as.a clock!"” At:

_Finisterre Island we went

“Fifteen knots. It was. exhilara-
“ting. Although: the speed was
only about six miles-per hour
it was enough to dig the bow ..
in from :time to time and
when she. did that a wreath of

as

thousand cane

just fine, a So heay. of
creaks and hums and flap-
ping flags.

Suddenly we sailed out of
the. wind flow and into a large

‘But if erentusty stopped dead

in the middle of this patch of

lassy water. The flag hung
. limply, and the sails slatted
idly back and forth. I could
“see: the wind on. the: water;

like distant traffic. ‘

"But there was nothing
where. we were. After a
half-hour wait I gavé in and
“turned, on the “‘iton topsail”’ .
va ‘motored towards the

dark shadows on the water, It -
“took less than fifteen minutes
10° Teach . the air flow: and-
‘then the'clatter of the engine
-was-switched off and we got
hack t to sailing»

Entering West Bay was
fun. After we rounded up

Cash and cheques totalling
$17,000 were stolen from a
locked combination safe in
the ticket office at Grouse

A motorcyclist told provin-
cial court judge J.D. Layton
in North Vancouver Wednes-
day that he had switched

licence plates between
motorcycles as he could only
afford insurance for one.

Robert Maki, aged 19, of

2595 Queens Avenuc, West
Vancouver, pleaded guilty to
a charge of misusing licence
plates.

_ Crown counsel Jean
Connor said Maki was
stopped after he was seen

carrying a passenger without
a helmet.

into the air, breaking. up. into .
arkling”

‘at the head.

noise. of | a ight plant.

She proceeded leisurely up 7
_pste Proves We stayed over
on the west side of the bay;.-~

after our previous adventure:
with the rock that is about in

the centre of the entrance of -

the bay. I wanted to make a
landing. under sail alone, but
about a hundred yards. from
my. chosen spot the wind

‘changed around to northerly

and all my efforts. wouldn’t

side of the bay, where

sunlight was dappling gold-_ 7
‘on the logs. But:the skipper
won out, and after starting. .

the engine we tied up at my
_ Original, chosen spot, on the
west side of the bay, nearly

After everything was
secured I made... dinner,

discovering: somewhat rue- ~

fully that most of the’

‘groceries: that Mary had ‘so

_ carefully packed for me were

_ still-in the fridge -at home,
_ where I had forgotten them.
The galley yielded up some

spaghetti. and a can of.

mushroom soup, and | ate on —

deck.

,

.

It got chilly as the sun set
behind the trees, and I
Jooked ruefully across the
channel and down a bit, to

the place’ where the boat had

wanted to go. There, the logs
were still illuminated by the
warm glow of the sun, and it
stayed sunny there for a long
time after we were enveloped

- in the darkness.

I wonder how the boat

knew that? -

$17,000 stolen from Grouse

Mountain Monday night.
RCMP are investigating and
had no suspects as of last
week.

The licence plates on the
1974 bike had been taken
from a non-running 1973
motorcycle,

Maki told the court it had
been just one week before
the February deadline for
vehicle insurance and he
hadn't had the necessary
cash at the time. ”

“LE felt it would be the
easiest thing to switch plates
from the other bike as they
were both the same,”’ he
said.

Judge Layton fined him
$35.

asvery quiet; The -
the galley clock. -
“was noticeable, and from the —
_ shore came the barking. of a
dog as well as the’ far-off a

get us any further. The boat. ._
fell off the wind and made for —
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