The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-03-30, Page 26Page 6—Crossroads--March 30, 1983
BILL
ONTARIO
Henrik "Skipper" Fietje
lives with his wife, Jantje, in
a seniors' complex in Cam-
bridge. They're a happy,
busy couple in their late 70s.
Their apartment isn't big
by ordinary standards but
for them, there's plenty of
room. That's because
"Skipper" was born and
grewup on one of the 8,000
sailing vessels that used to
ply the canals of Holland and
the North Sea. Jantje's
parents also sailed the
canals. Whole families lived
on the boats in very cramped
quarters. Sons took over the
sailing ships from their
fathers. It was a way of life.
Today, when you walk into
the Fietje's place, you're
surrounded by model sail-
boats. "Skipper" sailed for
many years. Now he sails in
memories. He builds model
ships like those he sailed. He
uses no blueprints or draw-
ings. Everything is carved
out of his recollections.
Currently, "Skipper" is
working on a big schooner.
So far, he estimates he's
spent about 1,000 hours on it.
He uses only a few simple
tools.
And,there's a replica of his
family's ship and other
models of similar craft.
They're scattered around on
shelves, on tables, and on the
floor. What he's done, in a
way, is build his own life
story.
When Holland's canal and
coastal ships switched from
sails to diesel motors in the
early thirties, life on the
waters changed. The canal
boats disappeared.
"Skipper" intended to
keep on sailing anyway, but
there was a complication. He
wanted to marry Jantje, but
she was frightened of sail-
ing! Despite her family's
background, she had re-
mained a confirmed landlub-
ber. She had a built-in fear of
ships — especially walking
across gangplanks.
"I had to choose between
the sea and marrying her,"
said "Skipper", looking over
at his wife. "I chose her, and
I'm glad I did," he added
with a chuckle.
The couple travel a lot.
They showed us their com-
fortable van out in the park-
ing lot. And sometimes they
fly. But go on ships? Not a
chance.
Ships still scare the bejeb-
bers out of Jantje.
Academy Award
nominee Sunday
Already the winner of
seven national and interna-
tional awards, Just Another
Missing Kid is now in the
running for an Oscar. First
broadcast on The Fifth
Estate in April of 1981, this
90 -minute documentary will
be retelecast on Sunday,
April 3 at 7:30 p.m. giving
television viewers who
missed the program's ori-
ginal telecast a chance to see
it before the Academy
Award presentation on April
11.
Just Another Missing Kid
recounts an Ottawa family's
desperate search for their
missing son. It is a docu-
mentary which exposes the
glaring inefficiences and
failures of the American
judicial system.
On July 10, 1978, 19 -year-
old Eric left his home near
Ottawa for a five-day drive
to Boulder, Colorado. Four
days later, he called home,
saying he'd had trouble with
his van. He promised to call
the following day at five
o'clock. His family never
heard from him again.
When Eric first went miss-
ing, his family turned to law
enforcement agencies in
both Canada and the U.S. for
help. Everywhere, the re-
sponse was the same. "Well,
maybe he ran away." "If
you don't hear from him in 30
days, get back to us." During
the next two months, the Wil -
sons tried unsuccessfully to
find Eric themselves. Fin-
ally, they hired their own
one-man police force, a pri-
vate detective by the name
of Jim Conway. Conway, an
ex -cop who had worked the
toughest beat in New York
City, spent the next eight
weeks in a painstaking and
frustrating search for evi-
dence. it was through his
work that the Wilson family
discovered what really hap-
pened to their son.
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