"Page B6, July 29, 1979 - - Sunday News

DRIFTING QUIETLY DOWN last week, this lone skydiver makes an interesting .

‘picture against the clear, bright sky.

The Sea Festival had only
interested me through the
‘Tube’ in the past years, I
admit, because I prefer to
stay away from crowds and
tourism. But that has
changed now. Having been
right in the thick of things or
rather ‘wet of things’ was a
real turn on.

right, but what really blew
my mind was bathtub No.
30, skippered by Mike
Menzies from  Saltspring
Island. As soon’ as he
beached his tub, he grabbed
a pair of crutches that were
neatly stored on the bottom
of the tub, pushed them
under his armpits and made

A COURAGEOUS SHOW by Mike Menzies as he
heads for the bell and the finish of the hathewh race.

that final important stretch
an almost impossible task.
To find the finish line was
like trying to find a needle in
the haystack. The Race
Organizers did a superb job
by marking that area with a
hot air balloon marker,

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shute. It’s up to the pleasure

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The Sea Festival is ov
but the memories of the
exciting | activities on the
water will remain for a long.
time. I am certain many of
the ‘visitors: fell in love with
our city and will'return fora

_most likely permanent stay.

The colourful. boating
display i in English Bay during
the past weekends must have
given many ‘want to be’
boaters the final spark to.
join the raghangers or stink

potters. Sailing schools and =
Power Squadrons courses

have never been so full.

boaters next year to give the
tub heroes a bit more room.

« Let’s stay a while with
tubs. ' Fred Maguire, a car
salesman’ from Nanaimo,
became the first man in 1973
to ride a tub from Nanaimo
to Seattle. Now he plans a
‘long distance’ ride. In 1980
he plans a marathon run
from B.C. to Alaska and
even across the Bering Strait

to Russia - all the way to the
summer Olympics in
Moscow. If he makes it,
Nanaimo will be on the
plumbing map.

1 admire sailors who turn

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ocean. It gets awfully lonely

out there!

worth it.

their dream into reality, but

aye t~ a gyal lowe ORG, ~
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. From a party on a yacht in - his way slowly but surely u
the. midst -of hundreds of the hill to ring the finish bell.
fireworks— or
Zodiac Football, Sail ’n Tail Being physically ‘han-

race, Hobie Cat hullflying dicapped, it must have been

contest, Model Yacht torture for Mike to race
regatta, Innertube race, ‘across Georgia Strait. The -
Bathtub race .and the _ crowd of 10,000 showed its

spectacular Skydiving Show

tespect and admiration by
right above all the boats was

‘applauding .for, over a
minute. I found out later that
he participates each year in
the race. This time he came
in a respectable 12th! 7

To sit almost two hours in
a bouncing narrow, bathtub
isn’t for . me; : ° probably
because it requires enor-
mous physical endurance.
Aussie Gary> Deathridge
finished the bathtub race in
record time, impressive all

Most. of the tubbers: I
talked to complained about.

_ the flotilla of pleasure craft
- that lounged in‘ front of Kits
Beach and made ‘havigating

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