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more than 60 entrants ‘tii Sunday’s fourth annual North'Shore News Sailing Race from the: | ; “starting } live opposite Dundarave Pler, West Vancouver. More pictures and fall lists of prizewinners and finishing times on n pages B4° ; ee “and BS. Photos by Terry Peters and Elsworth Dickson.

Cloudy, clearing and

warmer in the afternoon

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Reaching Every Door on the

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‘By BOB HUNTER It had been raining

Yor a week. At 6 a.m.,

‘the sky was a grey pallet. The light was jpleak. the clouds were ‘thick, The radio said

9 off’ Pt. Atkinson was 15 knots, and ‘would. probably blow to.25..

* Groggily, I piled a Mustang survival suit, . gumboots and a pair of foam —

wetsui ‘booties “into thie scat

‘convinced that. English’ Bay ‘would be a soupy maelstrom

ali day, and my. initiation into the secret rites of racing a sailboat would be a horror story. .

Visions of Howard Pyle's painting of the red-cyed crew on the decks of the storm-tossed Flying .. Dut- chman [flickered before my eyes. .

_ Out of the first 13 days of June, there had beén one

day of: ‘sunlight! What /hope

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the

was there that the 14th’ day would transform Vancouyer

into Paradise?

The North Shore | News’

. Sailing Race was in ‘all

likelihood going to be a tale’ of: wooden boats and so By- marrowed men, of brave ’ damsels, and = rain-slicked

decks. I was pretty sure —

especially at 6 a.m. — that I wasn't going to enjoy it very much, Yet by the time I got down to the Burrard Yacht Club to CONTINUED ON PAGE Al0 |