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Citizens N•ws August 7, 1980
Meet Vietnam veterans
Travel by ship to Carolinas
By BUD STURGEON
Harrrrk! Have you ever
been to sea mateys?
Two Bayfield residents,
Gary and Ken Hulley
recently returned from a
voyage aboard a sailboat
from Port Dover, Ontario to
Hilton Head Island, south
Carolina.
The other night I slipped
down to the House of Mouse
on Tuyll Street to catch wind
of their adventures on the
high seas.
These two good old boys
had stowed their gear and
were all set for a Saturday
start aboard the `F stop', a
CS -27, owned by long time
friend John Mitchell of
Brantford, a professional
photographer hence the
name of the boat.
Unfortunately they
received a phone call saying
the main mast had snapped
at the spreaders, in a race
prior to the scheduled
voyage.
The next two days were
spent fitting a heavier
cruising mast and tuning the
rigging, the shrouds and
stays.
On Monday morning they
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finally set sail with a
pleasant wind, and reaching
the first marker, set course
for Buffalo, New York.
Ken pauses to stoke up his
pipe, noting at this point they
had an interesting accident,
with a jibe and recovered
from a forty-five degree
he6e1 that almost dumped
the entire kit and kaboodle
into Lake Erie.
Thirty miles into the lake,
the wind came up and forced
most small craft to harbour.
At this point, they en-
countered the seventy-six
foot Challenge from Port
Stanley, now sailing out of
Port Colbourne as a vacation
cruiser. Normally under full
sail, the mainsail'd been
reefed and two fore sails had
been dropped as well due to
the high winds.
However our ad-
venturesome threesome, sea
legs a little wobbly, pushed
onwards reaching Buffalo
early in the evening.
While talking to an old salt
Protect
in port that night, he noted
that in his 45 years and 65,000
nautical miles of sailing,
he'd never seen the waves so
high, festimating them at 25
to 30 feet or more.
But it was already time to
move on, so the mast was
unstepped in preparation for
the next leg, down the Erie
Barge Canal.
The five day passage
through the 200 mile, 34 lock
canal (2 up and the rest
down) provided some nice
scenery, but little ex-
citement. As a point of in-
terest, the greatest lock drop
was 60 feet, with the last four
or five locks totalling over
180 feet.
While stopped at
Schenectady, N.Y., over-
night we find the crew
spending an interesting
social evening with a group
of Vietnam veterans cam-
ping beside the canal,
celebrating the 4th of July.
As a protest towards, the
_lack of respect for the
Iranian crisis. they sub-
stituted dynamite for
• Continued from page 11 fireworks. The evening also
featured a hair-raising ride
with livestock. One common to the local McDonalds, in
symptom is that the animal the back of a pickup truck for
will appear to choke. When some fast grub. That made
the farmer tries to relieve the land -legs a wee bit
the animal by dislodging wobbly.
material from its throat, he Clearing the canal at Troy,
can become infected. If a N.Y., they continued onto
farmer knows there are Castledon, along the Hudson
rabies in his area, he should
consult his veterinarian to
determine whether the herd
should be immunized,"
recommends Dr. Neely.
People who have come into
contact with a rabid animal
should report the incident to
the Health of Animals
Branch of Agriculture
Canada, and see a doctor.
Agriculture Canada per-
sonnel will investigate to
determine whether the
suspected animal has
rabies.
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New Zealand
Continued from page 7
Carter and children, Tam-
my, Joanne and Terry of
Leduc are holidaying with
Dennis's parents Mr. and
Mrs. Len Carter, Main
Street, $ayfield.
Lillian and Harold
Beakhurst wish to thank the
unknown person who
rescued the valuable books
which were lost somewhere
between their home and
Graham's store. They had
been returned by a borrower
last Thursday and placed on
the bumper of their car.
Understandably they did
not stay there when the
Beakhursts drove to the
village, but someone found
them and took them into
Trahavis.
Present guests for a few
days with Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Beakhurst were Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Austin of
Hillington, Middlesex,
England.
Mrs. Cliff Utter visited
with her father in Simcoe
recently.
River, the first available
place where the mast could
be restepped.
Here they joined up with a
flottila of Canadian boats,
that were heading to Rhode
Island to watch the America
Cup Trials. It was most
appropriate named, "The
Canada Cruise'.
Along with the remainder
of the flottila they made the 4
day jaunt down the Hudson
River to New York City,
through the breathtaking
scenery of the Catskill
Mountains.
It was imperative to follow
the marked channel as
countless barges and ocean
freIIh a were also using
the river.
Through the Hudson, you
have to also sail to take
advantage of the six knot
tides, either sailing with the
ebb or facing the prospect of
standing almost stationary
in the water.
While sailing just before
midnight to catch one of
these tides, they missed
three marker buoys and a
huge pile of stones in the
channel, apparently un-
marked, until they realized
their navigational charts
were outdated.
In the ensuing scurry to
get anchored in the pitch
black, in order to await the
daylight hours before con-
tinuing the F Stop almost ran
aground, touching bottom
four or five times. To
complicate matters at this
juncture, they were almost
hit by a huge barge in the
middle of the channel, hence
creating a few tense
moments.
Now it was time for a
pleasant surprise, when they
met up with Rob and Janice -
McGuffin, of Bayfield who
were also entering New York
Harbour, sailing their
homemade craft.
Docked at pier 59, they
spent two days in the city as
tourists, taking in a Pirates
vs Mets baseball game to
boot.
Our good old boys were
astounded at -the heavy
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HE'S A CUTE UTILE FELLOW — One of the tougher jobs at
the Friedsburg Days talent and queen contest was the MC's
position. Taking Tots of "abuse" from Angeleno Humperdink
(Nancy Rader) and her mother (Jacky Wells) was local MPP
Jack Riddell. T -A photo
ANGELENA ENTERTAINS — One of the
Dashwood:s Friedsburg Days Firday was
Rader). Ms. Humperdink is shown giving it
show audience.
featured performers at the talent sho* portion of
their reknowned Angeleno Humperdink (Nancy
her best shot before a small portion of the talent
T -A photo