| §7°~ Wednesday, April 16,1986 ~

—(GREAT OUTDOORL

\welve:years ago wind-- unknowa. as: a: sport.
“surfing or board sail- However in the ensuing
ing, was virtually years since 1974 its: popu-

An advertising feature.

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Rivers Inlet is a remote fjord on the rugged British Columbia coast
_ 270 miles from Vancouver and accessible le only by float plane or large _
led home of giant Tyee to 83 Ibs, and big Nor. §

t . :
near,the ‘mouth’ of. Rivers Inlet is Rivers Lodge. Nestled in
2 the I6dge'is only minutes away from the wildest fishing ~!
3 ar fishing not only the:trophy salmon’ as they enter,
} s $ that migrate eee the inlet on their’ ©

larity. has ‘swep ‘the world”

and today. deft, mosquito-
like sails dot the waters of
France, Mexico, England,
Germany, the U.S. . and
Canada, or anywhere where

there is wind and water.

‘Rental shops, ‘stores, schools

and clinics have sprouted. up

everywhere and championships,

contests and races are interantional.: -

events. The sport has reached such

heights. as to. be- admitted into the

- event. Consider: that only 12 years °
ago, few::people had-heard of it
~and. one ‘realizes’ that board sailing

“Actually it:was as long ago as
1956, ‘when the idea of board sail-
ing had its beginning. Ss. Newman

. ‘Darby wrote about his new inven-

tion in Popular: Science, He entitl-
ed his article ‘‘Sailboarding’’ and
described a new one-man sport us-
ing: a door-shaped board made of
pine or plywood with an attached

diamond-shaped

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There are miles of isolated beaches to explore; beachcombing for class
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‘It. wasn’t until eleven years’ later
in 1967 when the idea had a second
go-around. Hoyle Schweitzer, a
computer executive and Jim
Drake, an aeronautical - engineer
got together in Santa Monica one
balmy, boozy night and lamented

the lack of a sport that combined

the exhilaration and skill of sailing

with the convenience and low cost’

of surfi ing. ° 6
For the following “two year
Schweitzer - and. Drake, working’

out of the latter’s garage, perfected:

a design of a board/shaped like a
surfboard, and made of: fibreglas
polyurethane, _polypropylen
other plastics. They created

versal joint that. allowed

to move in any. direction i

into, the water, - and

“Finally; in 1 1969, Jim: ‘Drake. at

tended’ a symposium put'on by the ~

American . Aeronautics: and

Astronautics

surfing — A‘New Ccnczept in Sail-

_ing’?. The members. laughed at’ hi

~ idea and Drake lost interest.in the’,
He sold’ his: shares: to"
‘Schweitzer for $36,000 and'by do-
-ing so made the biggest mistake of-.
his. life, Schweitzer took: the. idea | ~

project.

: aoa.

Association . and..
presented a paper entitled “*Wind- «

North'Shore News

~ Its‘ popularity “stems ‘ from” the
fact that it is convenient, relatively
inexpensive and easy to learn. The
board is light and portable and can
be purchased for $500 to $2,500.
Instructors guarantee that after six
hours of proper instruction most
everyone can master the basic skills
of sailing across the .wind,- turning

‘and tacking (sailing upwind), jib-
‘ing (sailing downwind), self-rescue,
and - how to. Tig and _getig the |

not restricted by cost of lift tickets, -

line- -ups,- docking * ‘charges,

” crowding, lack of snow ‘or surf, tec

times, court’ times or injuries. Fi-

Rally, however safe it is, it is thrill

ing, exciting and provides the sail-
or, ith a good physical work out.

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