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OCEAN FALLS Getting to know this memorable town on BC’s Central Coast

By Rick Hudson

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ANCHOR WENCHES Four young women take inspiration from M. Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time on a voyage up the coast

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MARLINSPIKE SEAMANSHIP Part I, an introduction to the art and science of ropework

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26 COASTAL CHARACTERS Telegraph Cove’s Gordon and Marilyn Graham

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his time of year, when the days are short and dark, and the weather is usually miserable and cold, gathering on the boat to watch a movie or play a board game with friends and family is often the only “boating” we can do and that’s OK. A recent experience drove this home for me.

This fall, long-time Pacific Yachting contributor, Peter Vassilopoulos asked me if I’d be interested in giving boating lessons to a friend of his. We’ll call him Bob. Bob is brand new to boating and now that he’s retired, he has the time and the means to pursue his late-adopted hobby. It’s been fun going through the learning experience with him and watching his comfort level gradually increase.

On our most recent lesson, just before we were about to leave the dock, we discovered the kicker wasn’t spitting water (we’ve all been there). With the wind up a bit and not wanting to be without a backup in case the stern drive packed it in, we decided to stay put and hang out on the boat, have a beer and look up videos on potential fixes for the outboard. This wasn’t the first mishap of our brief boating friendship and after sitting there a short while watching the rain run down the windows, Bob looked at me with a wry smile and asked, “Am I having fun? Is this boating?”

I couldn’t help but laugh. Bob was learning fast. “Well, I don’t know

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whether you’re having fun,” I said.

“But you know what, this is definitely boating.” And it’s the truth, at least the partial truth. Sometimes you don’t leave the dock. Maybe the weather isn’t cooperating, maybe the outboard isn’t spitting water or maybe you just don’t feel like leaving the dock that day. It was fun to hangout in the heated cockpit, shooting the breeze and wearing our mechanics hats for a couple hours even if it wasn’t what we had planned for the day.

This time of year, when the days are short and dark, and the weather is usually miserable and cold, sitting in the boat at the dock is definitely boating and hey, it’s fun! At least, hopefully it’s fun because it might be the only option until spring.

On a somber note, Pacific Yachting’s longest-tenured employee, Gordon Fidler, passed away this fall. Known around the office as Gandalf, because of his long white beard and his love for fantasy and science fiction novels, Gord was a kind-hearted and hardworking fellow with a quiet but infectious laugh and a penchant for beef and Guinness stew. Gordon had been working from home since the start of the pandemic, but was still an important part of the team, putting together the classifieds section of the magazine each month.

Gordon “Fiddles” Fidler will be truly missed.

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The cartoon above this article reminded me of the passing of a dear sailing friend. He was part of what we loosely called “boyz cruises.” After he died, about 40 or so of us gathered before a day’s race and shot his ashes out over Cowichan Bay from a potato gun. The sun’s rays caught the ashes in a spectacular cloud as befitted the occasion.

—Martin Golder JOGGLING IN SEPTEMBER

I loved the short DIY article by Martyn Clark (September 2022) on the use of a “joggle stick.” In all the years I’ve been

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The joggle stick, simple and effective, solves that problem. Let’s have more ‘Hands On Boater’ tips.

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10 Tips for Keeping Your Boat Safe & Secure During Winter 1. Verify that all seacocks are closed, except for the cockpit. Also check that leaves don’t clog the cockpit scuppers, which could fill the cockpit and force drains underwater, backflooding the boat.

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2. Check your dock lines for security and chafe. Winter storms can put a lot of strain on dock lines so make sure you use a good chafe guard, and make sure the boat is tied so it can’t get caught under the dock during tide changes.

3. Make sure the boat is well-ventilated. Air circulation prevents mold and mildew from forming down below and keeps the boat smelling fresh.

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EVENTS

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Mooring Buoys Removed from Gwaii Haanas

VANCOUVER BOAT SHOW RETURNS!

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arks Canada has announced that they are removing the mooring balls in Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve.

According to a release, the mooring buoys in Gwaii Haanas are no longer safe and must be replaced prior to next operating season. In the interim, all buoys will be removed for safety purposes. Current safe moorages are the Shuttle dock and Ellen Island dock in the event of an emergency and need for safe harbour.

PY’s ‘Take Your Best Shot’ Photo Contest It’s your last chance to enter Pacific Yachting’s annual photo contest! It’s not too late to submit your best boating photos from 2022 for a chance to be featured in the February issue of Pacific Yachting and win some awesome prizes, including a Yeti V Series Stainless Steel Cooler valued at $1,100. For contest rules and to LAST enter, visit pacificyachting.com/photo-contest.

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Holiday Books head on and with a Jack London-like philosophy. The prologue concludes: “Man is fish. Fish is man… We know heaven like salmon know the crooning apes who kill them for profit. For all I know, God is a fisherman with bills to pay.” So, you know Norris went through some stuff while he was up there. I recommend reading the book to find out what.

Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker

By Joe Martin and Alan Hoover, Royal BC Museum, 86 pages, $24.95.

Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death & Everything In-Between

By Norris Comer, Milspeak Books, 2022.

228 pages, $18.95.

You might recognize the name Norris Comer from the pages of Pacific Yachting, where he’s published numerous articles in recent years, from dinghy buyers’ guides to a feature on transiting Seattle’s Ballard Locks. Having read these articles, I knew he was a good writer, but I was still delightfully surprised reading Salmon in the Seine. More than just a fisherman’s tale of a season in Alaska, the book provides a unique outsider’s perspective on joining the tight-knit fishing community in Cordova, Alaska. Norris goes from a naive greenhorn to an experienced deckhand with blood on his hands and he takes the reader along for the ride. The bravado, the racism, the brutal reality of life on a seiner is all on display. This lifestyle is not for the faint of heart, but Norris tackles it 14  D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2

In his dedication, Joe Martin writes of his late brother, Bill Martin, who was happiest when they were both together carving canoes in the forest. The canoe intersects nature and tradition and those connections runs through the book, embodying it with much more significance than other how to manuals.

But what is a chaputs exactly? It’s not an easy word to describe. The Royal BC Museum’s site explains the roughly translated meaning of that intriguing word: “The chaputs carries Indigenous cultural knowledge passed down through generations, not only of the

practical forestry and woodworking that shape every canoe, but also of the role and responsibilities of the canoe maker.” Described as both an artform and a technological marvel, the journey of a dugout canoe, from forest to sea, is described both in pictures and text.

So not surprisingly, what I took away from this book is the significance in the building of these craft and how deeply this practice weaves together the honouring of the forest with the people.

The dugout canoe is one of the most iconic symbols of the Northwest Coast.

Throughout the canoe’s life it was treated with great care and it was very important for the males of the tribes to know how to make a one. Who better to tell this story than a renowned carver with a history of expertly crafting over 60 high-quality canoes? Tia-o-quiaht master canoe maker, Joe Martin, has teamed with the former museum curator, Alan Hoover, to create this beautifully illustrated book which accomplishes a whole lot more than just describing the process of creating a dugout canoe (although it does this beautifully as well).

Martin, who lived in Opitsaht village on Vancouver Island’s west coast, has been involved in canoe making since learning at his father’s side as a child.

As I read along I could hear Martin’s voice speaking to me, telling me the importance of selecting the right tree, of splitting the core with wooden wedges and driving them in alternatively for even splitting, of levelling the canoe before finishing the hull by using a rock and a string, pegging and sealing the stern piece with spruce gum and spruce root and of the importance of steaming and placing rocks in the canoe to avoid later cracks. Step by step—in photos and text—he leads us through the whole process as well as giving us the stories and history of

many of the canoes he created and the people he worked with.

It’s a journey well worth taking, an ode to a canoe with a gentle reminiscence and reminder of nature and history.

—Cherie Thiessen Whelks to Whales: Coastal Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest

By Rick M. Harbo, Harbour Publishing, 352 pages, $28.95.

When the first edition of this field guide came out in 1999 it was immediately hailed as the definitive guide on West Coast marine life. It soon became difficult to obtain, so not surprisingly 12 years later the book was reprinted with some changes and updating. I recall reviewing this second edition for Pacific Yachting readers and then adding it to our limited space bookshelf on our boat Aquila, where it has received copious attention over the years.

So, I was very happy to read that

Whelks to Whales was once again hitting the bookshelves in its third revised and updated edition. Additional colour photos and newly altered names have been added to this field guide and it covers marine life all down the West Coast from Alaska to northern California. What further recommendation does it need?

More than 500 species are shown and examined in the book. Almost every local sea creature and plant can be quickly identified, even by novices, due to the colour coded sections, the photos, and the brief but accurate info that accompanies each species.

I’ll be glad to replace my wellthumbed and salt encrusted second edition with this new one. I really like that the additional information contains a section on non-native species as well as instructions on how to identify what molluscs has just squirted at me by looking at its siphon rather than by digging down to uncover the culprit.

Most of the book’s photos are taken by the author, and must represent years and years of diving, uncovering and discovering the ocean’s inhabitants.

Blissfully unaware of its impending dismissal from my marine bookshelf, my second edition will not be wasted— my niece has asked for it. She grew up with her aunt consulting the compendium every summer to answer her numerous “whys, wheres, whats and how comes?” Many of the muddy thumbprints on the photos are hers.

Author Rick M. Harbo lives in Nanaimo and is a diver and retired senior marine biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. He also volunteers as a research associate with the Royal BC Museum. He has authored three other books on marine life as well as several pocket guides, so readers are in good and well-informed hands.

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I I would love to be that woman. The one out on the foredeck with the wind screaming through her hair, poised to raise the first spinnaker, daring the waves to wash her overboard; willing her boat over the finish line ahead of 18 - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2

all the others. The sun would be shining, the sky and water gloriously blue.

My spinnaker would blossom—full of wind—and I’d take a minute to look back. I’d revel in the gorgeous colours; reds, whites, greens, and yellows, the puffs of white clouds in the endless sky. I’d gaze for a moment at majestic Mount Baker, gleaming white and bright in the distance.

The truth is, I’m scared to death of foredecks, and reefing sails and hiking out over the side—all of the things that would make my boat go faster are not for me. Except maybe in races

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people—to spend the day. I don’t care which boat crosses the finish line first, or if they finish. To me, everyone deserves a blue ribbon. I cheer them on, then retire to the galley, where, surrounded by cookbooks, I watch cooking shows and pray for my soufflé to rise to a puff y, golden treasure of eggy, cheesy goodness. I ponder ways to perfect my next favourite recipe.

Lately, I’ve been working on pâté. I want a recipe that doesn’t require multiple steps, exotic ingredients, or dozens of bowls. My friends wrinkle their noses and ask why. Why go to all that work? Because I can’t go to Paris every time I need a slice of pâté for lunch, for a gift, or to fill up a charcuterie board.

Actually, it’s not difficult, and because it has to chill for a couple of days before serving, it’s a fabulous make-ahead dish for celebrations year-round. You can create it and forget about it while you focus on other menu items.

When it’s time to serve, just slice it, garnish with some cornichons and a few greens, and voilà! You have a tasty, savory appetizer, or add a baguette and green salad, and you have an elegant luncheon. It’s perfect with a slightly fruity red wine, or in the summer, with a dry rosé.

A few words about ingredients.

This recipe calls for three ingredients you may not have on hand, but I’ve included substitutes. Armagnac is a brandy, so cognac or brandy make good substitutes, or in a pinch, a sturdy white wine. Green and white peppercorns can be replaced by freshly ground black pepper. Juniper berries may be a little expensive and difficult to find, and they are too hard for a mortar and pestle, so require a spice grinder or coffee grinder, but fear not.

They have a piney, slightly fruity flavour, so you can substitute rosemary, or if you like, gin.

Finally, don’t be put off by the chicken livers. Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love the way they team up with the spices and wrap around the other meats in terrines and 20 - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2

pâtés, but I hate the way they look when I put them in the food processor.

I steel myself for the pulpy mess and give it a whirl. Because it’s worth it.

And now, whether or not you venture into making pâté, I wish you a joyous holiday season and that only good things come your way in 2023.

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METHOD

For two nine by 13-centimetre (3.5 by five-inch) terrines (can freeze half to cook later)

1. In a small saucepan, over medium heat, simmer Armagnac for 30 seconds. Cool.

•675 grams (1.5 lbs) chicken livers

2. Sweat shallot and garlic in butter.

Cool.

•675 grams (1.5 lbs) pork butt, cubed (approx. four centimetres / 1.5 inches) •112 grams (1/4 lb) fatback or fat from bacon, or fatty bacon, chopped very finely •1/4 cup Armagnac (substitute cognac, brandy, sturdy white wine) •6 cloves garlic, minced •3/4 cup finely chopped shallots •2 tablespoons butter •2 teaspoons salt •1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper •1/2 tablespoon each green and white peppercorns, crushed in mortar (substitute ground black pepper) •2 tablespoons juniper berries, ground (substitute 1 teaspoon dried rosemary needles or 1 tablespoon gin) •1/4 cup heavy cream

3. Add seasonings to shallot/garlic.

Mix well.

4. Pulse pork in food processor until coarsely ground. Remove to mixing bowl.

5. Remove connective tissue from livers and pulse briefly in food processor.

6. Mix everything thoroughly.

7. Chill several hours or overnight.

8. Preheat oven to 165◦ C (325◦ F).

9. Fry a nugget of the pâté. Taste.

Correct seasonings.

10. Place parchment paper crosswise in terrine or loaf pan with ends hanging out.

11. Press meat mixture into pan.

12. Cover tightly.

13. Place terrine in a larger pan. Add hot water half-way up the side.

14. Bake one hour or until temperature reaches 54° C (130° F).

15. Remove cover and bake approximately 30 minutes or to 66 C° (150° F).

16. Cool. Pour off excess fat.

17. Press down firmly with weight; refrigerate two days. Important: If it’s not compressed, it will fall apart when you slice it.

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At Anchor in a Concrete Jungle A few days in False Creek S TO RY & P H OTO S BY K AY L E E N VA N D E R R E E

A At least 30 stark white vessels with glimmering chrome trim circled us. Their burgees flew proudly above their flybridges and their bow thrusters pushed them perfectly into their slips. The differences between the types of boating in British Columbia was obviously apparent in False Creek Harbour, downtown Vancouver. Boats rafted together, caked in green moss, sat at anchor sprinkled from Jericho Beach to Science World. The shiny yachts that circled by us earlier, found their homes in yacht clubs and marinas along the edges of the harbour. And then there was our boat, somewhere in between the two extremes. We classify ourselves as the cruiser type and our towels and underwear—hung to dry on the lifelines, flapping in the breeze—make that quite obvious. Despite the differences in lifestyle that come with each vessel, we all share the commonality of being drawn to the ocean.

We typically seek out anchorages surrounded by wilderness. With the sound of sirens nearby and the constant hum of activity it was obvious that we were far from our regular waters, although we were definitely in the midst of a jungle, albeit a concrete one. A series of medical appointments brought us to Vancouver in the first place and the thought of staying for free on the hook instead of paying for a few nights worth of hotels fit our cruisers budget perfectly.

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Vancouver Harbour Authority offers two weeks free moorage, which is enforced by an intimidating Police boat that makes its rounds, visiting those who ignore the rules. We displayed our temporary permit in an effort to avoid a visit from the police and then made our way to one of the many dinghy docks that are free for use. Upon arrival we were kindly greeted by one of the locals who was bailing out his tender after the heavy rains. In a thoughtful gesture he glanced at our brand-new outboard engine and warned us that theft was common here and to take all of our tender’s accessories with us. We decided that perhaps carrying our fuel line around the city was a bit excessive, but we did take his warning seriously and locked both our outboard and dinghy to the thick wood railing that surrounded the dock. A few hours later we saw the same fellow in his yellow foul weather gear lugging around his single paddle wherever he went, it was obvious he had learned the hard way. Thankfully, we had no issues while we were there.

We’ve been to Vancouver many times before by vehicle. The intensity of city life doesn’t really appeal to us when stuck in traffic half the time. However, despite the heavy rains, the need to lock everything and the occasional neighbour anchoring too close, visiting Vancouver by boat brought a whole new joy to the city. The hustle and bustle was more endearing when swinging on the hook and tackling each day at our own speed. We found ourselves commuting from our anchorage to Granville Island and Yaletown by our tender, not having to be reliant on an Uber or water taxi.

Getting to appointments was easy and left lots of time for finding a local pool for showers, picking up fresh prawns at Fisherman’s Wharf, and adventuring along the Seawall.

When not exploring False Creek by tender, we pulled out our newly purchased folding e-bike and hit the pavement. The warm rays of the off-season sun were extra welcoming after a few days of monsoon style rain that left 24 - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2

everything on board a little bit soggy.

We warmed up on the Seawall, cruising as far as our battery would take us. Half of Vancouver had the same idea, but we

wove our way between the other joggers, cyclists, and Canadian Geese that wandered in a type of contentment that only comes after surviving a long winter.

We circled back to our tender, stopping only for gelato, because we may as well take advantage of city living while we are here, right?

The lure of Vancouver’s conveniences taunted our wallets just enough, so when our appointments were finished we felt it was time to leave and return to the wilderness again—the type of wilderness where the only sushi we can get is the kind we catch and make ourselves.

Life aboard really allows us to see places in a new perspective and Vancouver is no different. Although the sights, sounds and smells were slightly overwhelming at times, I can see why the anchorage is always full. Vancouver by boat is charming and full of life for any type of boater; those with shiny chrome bits, those with their laundry on the line, or even those with leaky dinghies.

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Gordon & Marilyn Graham of Telegraph Cove One couple’s journey to turn a coastal outpost into a boating haven

G Gordon Graham invites me to board his golf cart and we mosey down to Telegraph Cove’s Forest RV Campground, with its more than 100 campsites. Most of the campers are in recreational vehicles of all sizes—some quite glamorous—but tenters are welcome too.

Beginning in 1979, it was the first place Gordon (77) and Marilyn (76) created at Telegraph Cove, a small harbour off Johnstone Strait. “When we first 26 - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2

saw Telegraph Cove, it was a typical, old, West Coast town, with sewage on the beach, dilapidated houses, a generally low-rent place,” said Gordon. “We liked fishing and thought a fishing resort would be popular here.”

The Grahams, who’d married in 1970, were then living in Port Alice, a village on Neroutsos Inlet, one of the many bays and arms that form Quatsino Sound. Gordon, usually called Gordie, was a tree faller. “I loved the profession,” he said. “We felled and bucked timber for Sitka Falling Ltd.” But Marilyn, a public-health nurse, knew that logging was Canada’s most dangerous industry and did not want to raise the couple’s two daughters on her own. “I was born in Saskatchewan,” she said.

“But Gordie grew up on a dairy farm in the Fraser Valley.”

Gordie had become acquainted with Telegraph Cove’s sawmill that was still operating in the 1970s. “I sometimes bought lumber there,” he said. He observed that the eclectic group of mill worker homes surrounding the boardwalk village posed a huge fire risk.

“These wooden buildings had mostly knob-and-tube wiring installed in the first half of 20th century,” said Gordie.

“Very dangerous.”

TELEGRAPH COVE AS a village started in 1912, when the Superintendent of Telegraphs sought to expand the telegraph network north of Campbell River. He picked this small harbour, naming the site after the transmission device of the day—then as important to communications as the internet is today. Bobby Cullerne maintained the telegraph line that was strung on tree branches and became the cove’s first inhabitant. The expanded version of his one-room shed still stands on the side of the boardwalk.

In 1922, Alfred Marmaduke “Duke” Wastell, bought land around the harbour and eventually opened three businesses, the Broughton Lumber and Trading Company, the Telegraph Cove

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Mill and a salmon saltery. Buildings accommodating these enterprises were erected and houses and cottages for the workers sprung up—many on stilts. His son, Fred, took over the industries, but when he died in 1985 and the enterprises shut down, the Grahams bought all of Telegraph Cove’s buildings and began to update and repurpose them, creating a new industry—tourism. “It was a huge thing for us that Telegraph Cove’s history be preserved,” said Gordie. “But we didn’t want to make the houses and cottages too pretty, not transform them into five-star destinations, but make them distinct, cosy and comfortable while retaining their historical character. We left the moss on the roofs.”

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Over the years, the Grahams rebuilt and maintained the marina and the boardwalk that surrounds the harbour, doing much of the work themselves.

“You cannot afford to hire contractors to do the work,” said Marilyn. “You simply have to do it yourself.”

The renovated houses are rented to visitors—many from Europe. “We’ve hosted people from Africa and even Mongolia,” Marilyn added. “And celebrities like Oprah, former UK prime minister John Major, Jimmy Pattison and George Bush senior have visited.

They came to view the wildlife and because no one bothered them here.”

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fighting equipment and a rusty Dodge truck. Every few metres a green metal plaque explains a piece of the village’s century of enterprise, as well as introducing the people who first inhabited certain houses. Some of the signs honour the saltery and mill workers of Japanese descent who were interned during the Second World War. “A grandson brought his grandmother in her 80s back for a family reunion,” said Marilyn.

“She’d lived here before the war. We’ve also met other descendants of people who once lived here.”

“We’ve maintained a little sawmill to make planks for the boardwalk and cut timber for new and revamped buildings,” Gordie added.

The Grahams are especially proud of the recent reconstruction of the old lumber warehouse building, which houses the Whale Interpretive Centre. “We built it in the same style,” said Gordie. “Just raised the ceiling to better display the whale skeletons.”

Managed by the Johnstone Strait Killer Whale Interpretive Centre Society, it lays claim to being the largest marine mammal museum in BC. Besides displaying the skeletons of marine mammals (it’s remarkable how much their appendages resemble human hands), the museum offers programs for school kids that teach biodiversity, conservation and animal adaptations in the Salish Sea. In 1994, Bell Canada shot a commercial in Telegraph Cove. “They rented houses, brought in extras from

No visit to Telegraph Cove is complete without a walk along the boardwalk and a stop at the Whale Interpretive Centre.

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Port McNeill and we had to join the Actors Guild,” Gordie said. “We had a coffeeshop but no restaurant to feed all these folks. That persuaded us to add a West Coast style restaurant, the Old Saltery Pub.” The commercial played across Canada and gave Telegraph Cove a terrific boost.

Summer activities abound. The marina is home to a fleet of fishing boats with some spaces available for visiting yachts. Stubbs Island, founded in 1980, was the first whale watching company in BC (now operated by Prince of Whales). A fleet of rental kayaks, along with knowledgeable guides, are available. A bear watching company whisks

visitors out into Knight Inlet to view grizzly and black bears. On the boardwalk outside the pub, Gordie still grills slabs of marinated salmon. A new 24room modern lodge, built to resemble the style of the Whale Interpretive Centre, opened recently.

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Cove for more than 40 years, the couple are thinking about its future.

“We’re working on a retirement plan,” said Marilyn. “Our daughters worked here many summers and know how much work it is to run the place. We’d like to eventually find people who’ll want to maintain the houses, museum and boardwalk, and

keep their history alive.”

After all the years of hard work, the Grahams have no regrets about their long tenure, although Gordie grumbles a bit about government regulations that don’t always fit a seasonal business, and the tough times caused by the pandemic. “I’ve loved living here though, and reinventing Telegraph Cove with Marilyn and some family members,” he said.

“We’ve won many prizes and awards.”

“Our biggest joy has been to see how much people enjoy it here. Most have never viewed an orca or bear, or anything like it,” continued Marilyn.

“We’ve made so many friends and 99 percent of our guests are wonderful. We will miss them.”

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From left to right: The marina, The Ways, the downtown area and ferry dock, the bridge to the old mill site which is now a fish nursery, and behind it all, the Link Lake Dam.

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FALLING FOR OCEAN FALLS Getting to know this memorable town on BC’s Central Coast

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ome in out of the rain.

Sure, it’s a gentle rain that drifts down from the low clouds overhead—you can turn your face up to it without being pummeled. In the bay the mirror calm of the inlet’s surface is broken by a million stipples. It’s beautiful and mesmerizing.

But come in out of the rain anyway. It rains a lot here in Ocean Falls, with its back against the Coast Range. Pacific clouds, full of moisture from their slow transit across the world’s largest ocean, arrive at these steep slopes, rise, and dump staggering amounts of precipitation on the inlet and the occupants below. The annual rainfall is 169 inches or 4.3 metres. Do the math—that’s almost half an inch per day. More than four times what North Vancouver gets. And yet, for all that amount, it falls gently in the summer. The locals like to joke that you can tell it’s summer—the clouds are still there, but the rain is warm.

It’s early August and it’s been raining on the mid-coast, without a break, for almost a week. We’re tired of watching it run down windowpanes and we’re tired of watching the pipes on the upper deck jet it overboard. What to do?

We head to Ocean Falls, a place we’ve frequently heard about but have never visited. It’s out of the way, and far enough removed that it’s not easy to combine with anything else. But those who have visited say it’s well worth the detour, and so here we are, tied to the dock in the little marina. There are benefits to being off the main routes.

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1. Initially built to provide power for the growing pulp mill, the Link Lake Dam is a short walk out of town, and was spilling hard after a week of steady rain. 2. “The Shack” at the public dock has free wifi, tables, chairs and a book exchange.

overlook. It’s about a 20-minute amble through town, where the roads are cracked and grass pokes through, up the hill to where the paving turns to gravel, the bush encroaches from either side, and then you’re there.

The lake behind the dam is almost 30 kilometres long and is the result of the first dam, built in 1910. The dam was raised during the First World War

to provide more power to run an everexpanding pulp mill. Today, there are two intake floodgates that drive the turbines. Unlike most places in the world, Ocean Falls has a surplus of power that can’t find a market. As you motor up Cousins Inlet, you’ll have noticed the power poles on the west side. They supply the communities of Shearwater and Bella Bella.

In 1954 ownership shifted to Crown Zellerbach Ltd. The town was still on the move. A few years earlier, the Martin Inn had been built with 265 rooms.

Five years after that they added another 105 rooms to the inn. Imagine that— it was the biggest hotel on the coast, including Vancouver! A ski resort was built. The baseball fields were expanded. It’s estimated there were about 3,500 people living in Ocean Falls at the time.

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3. Despite having a small resident population, BC Ferries services the town bi-weekly from Port Hardy and Bella Coola. 4. The Ways are over a century old. Now owned by local Les LeMarston, who also runs the Old Bank Inn and the ice cream shop, it’s worth a visit, if Les is available. Ask at the inn.

PERHAPS WE SHOULD start at the beginning. First there was a sawmill in 1909, and it wasn’t long before they built a dam to power it. A pulp mill quickly followed. In 1921 the dam was raised for the second time. More power. More pulp. Ocean Falls was on a roll, as the mill expanded so too did the town with people streaming in looking for work.

Pacific Mills Ltd., owners of the pulp mill, knew they had to be special to attract people to a place that was effectively the end of the line. Sure, there was ferry service, and even air service at times, but to compensate for the remoteness, they paid above average wages and sponsored anything that helped to build a community—churches, societies and sports teams.

SADLY, LIKE MANY isolated one-industry towns, when conditions change the effects can be devastating. In the early ‘70s, Crown Zellerbach closed the mill. Under pressure, the BC Government took it over, but by 1980 they too had to call it quits. Workers and their families left. The plant and equipment were sold off. The hydro station was privatized to Boralex, a Quebec company. Homes with waterfront views sold for as little as $2,000.

Later, the government sent in machines to flatten much of the place. The remaining residents resisted vigorously.

After a standoff, much of the town’s centre was spared; but it was a false hope. Slowly, inevitably, the forests encroached, despite the best efforts of those who stayed.

As the permanent population shrank to about 50 souls it became strikingly obvious that Ocean Falls needed a new economy. For a while it looked like the conversion of the old mill site, by Norwegian fish food giant Mowi, into an Atlantic salmon hatchery, raising fry for fish farms might be the answer. But the staff lived in their own accommodations and came and went on company transport, with minimal benefit to the town.

WHAT DID OCEAN Falls offer? It was a small, hardy community. And it had 13 megawatts of mostly surplus electricity. That last feature attracted an unlikely customer. In 2010, cryptocurrency was just gaining traction. To

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“mine” Bitcoin, you need a lot of computing power. And computers guzzle a lot of electricity.

After numerous false starts, Vancouver-based entrepreneur Kevin Day convinced Boralex that his company was solid and, after a bit of back and forth, it agreed to sell Day up to 6 MW of power (at an undisclosed rate). Day set up his data centre in one of the least crumbly buildings in the old pulp mill.

In 2017 Ocean Falls Blockchain began operations. Day’s timing was good— the cryptocurrency went from $200 to almost $20,000 that year. But that was followed by some serious price hiccups in 2018 and 2019.

Unfortunately, none of this has really benefitted the town. Computers don’t need a lot of attention or employees.

TONI ZIGANASH AND Les LeMarston own the Old Bank Inn and Little Licker Ice Cream Store—pretty much the only businesses in town. They aren’t sure about cryptocurrency, but they like that there’s someone else looking to Ocean Falls’ future. The average age in town is 70-plus, so there’s little energy for anything new.

Sure, there’s a town hall, a post office, a first aid clinic and an RCMP post, but all of it is part-time (the RCMP keep a vehicle on charge outside their building, but they rarely come to town).

Which is a problem. LeMarston worries that every time someone does a ‘ghost town’ story on Ocean Falls, it attracts odd people who arrive to squat in the deserted buildings. “People don’t realize that these properties are owned.

They may be neglected, but they aren’t up for grabs.”

All the abandonment doesn’t help those left behind. Your house might be well cared for, but when the ones on either side are being swallowed by BC bush, it doesn’t look good. The other problem is that much of the downtown is owned by a small group of businessmen on Vancouver Island who have shown little interest in renovating or repairing.

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The Pacific Mills Pulp and Paper Plant, 1941.

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would like to see more young people.

With the imminent arrival of fibreoptic, this might happen. If Covid has taught us anything, it’s that a lot of people can telecommute. In the interim, they are busy. Their inn provides accommodation to visitors who arrive by ferry from Bella Coola or Port Hardy. You can also fly in from Port Hardy on Wilderness Seaplanes.

LeMarston has taken over The Ways, a magnificent old marine structure built at the end of the First World War. A century later, there’s a slight list to landward, but the pilings are sound

and Les is jacking the base beams back to level. He has the original engineering drawings of the place. In the short term, there’s no plan to provide commercial haul-outs, but the building is worth a visit. He is often found there and if not busy he will give you a tour of the place. Massive timbers, clear first-growth beams without a knot in them, make for an impressive sight.

Older visitors will remember Herb and Lena Carpenter, who previously owned The Ways. They have retired to Keremeos where Herb said he had, “one final house” to build.

Others may remember bearded Alfred Donald Collection

Bella Coola

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Cousins Inlet

King Island

The collection is now lightly managed

by LeMarston.

‘Nearly Normal’ Norm Brown, a local character who had a museum of memorabilia, salvaged from the town’s slow demise. An inveterate collector, his accumulation was housed in the co-op building until 2008, and then moved to the upper floor of The Ways. It too is worth a visit—green toy frog collections, notice boards from the sides of buildings, ladies’ face cream jars, Walt Disney LP records, dreamcatchers and Christmas diorama cutouts crowd other unrelated objects in the large loft, which in past times was the paper testing lab for the mill. Norm Brown died of cancer in early 2022.

EVA BRINE IS the wharfinger of Ocean Falls Harbour. Her husband was born there, and she’s lived in Martin Valley for more than two decades. There’s 1,500 feet of dock space, 20 and 30amp electricity and potable water.

There’s also “The Shack” where you can hang out and use the free wifi; there are tables and chairs, lights and a book exchange.

There are no longer any restaurants in Ocean Falls. Until Covid, Eva, a European-trained chef, ran one that delivered elegant cuisine quite out of the normal fare. No longer. There’s also no fuel and no garbage collection.

For exercise, there’s the dam overlook or you can hike the two kilometres to Martin Valley, named for Archie Martin, the mill’s first manager. The road follows the shoreline and brings you into a residential community which is better cared for than the downtown area.

Using the Merlin Bird ID app on our phones, we identified 11 bird species on that walk, although we saw only one—a violet-green swallow. A short distance along the road is the Fairy Rock, a remarkable place known for sightings of little mystical people, with a variety of fairies about, and even coins lying

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around to be collected (please advise the wharfinger if you have found treasure, so she can ensure it is replaced later).

THE BAROMETER WAS rising, the gale warning on the outer coast had been downgraded and the rain had eased.

So, we let go the lines with a feeling of genuine sadness, leaving Ocean Falls in our wake. Our stay had been unexpectedly upbeat despite the grey days, and we were sorry to be going. It was a great place to get out of the rain.

When You Go Ocean Falls Harbour 250-289-3374.

Further Reading Rain People: The Story of Ocean Falls, BC. Bruce Ramsey, Wells Gray Tours Ltd, 1997.

Whistle up the Inlet: The Union Steamship Story, G.A. Rushton, published by J.J.Douglas Ltd, 1974.

Raincoast Chronicles series, Harbour Publishing, 1972.

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ANC H O R

Four young women take inspiration from

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WENC H ES

M. Wylie Blanchet on a voyage up the coast

By Erin Beaudoin

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he crew sighed with relief as we floated our way into Green Bay after a windy afternoon on choppy waters. With an eightfoot beam and a 2.5-foot draft, By All Means—our 28-foot North Pacific—is an economical boat in a headwind, but bobs around uncomfortably in bigger waves advancing from any other direction. The other members of the crew and I were keen to be done bobbing for the day as we were still finding our sea-legs on week two of an eight-week expedition to retrace the famed adventures of captain-author Muriel Wylie Blanchet.

Annie Means, our captain, first picked up Blanchet’s memoir, The Curve of Time, when she was 14 and had planned on recreating the trip ever since. She mentioned the voyage to me when our college group took a weekend trip to Lopez Island for Annie’s 20th birthday. As the future crew read The Curve of Time, we became equally enchanted with the idea of recreating Blanchet’s voyages.

(Fittingly, we would begin and end our voyage at Lopez Island over a year later.)

Things started coming together. We got permission to borrow Annie’s father’s vessel, By All Means, took boating courses, and marked many destinations from The Curve of Time on a map, including Green Bay.

WATER TRICKLED OFF the cliff in Green Bay, sending ripples across the linn. It was day 15 of our voyage and we were fortunate to have the anchorage to ourselves except for a few dinghies tied to private docks. We fixed ourselves windward, triangulated a good distance from a dock, a reef and the waterfall and then dropped the hook. The boat didn’t catch the first time we lowered the anchor, so we pulled it up and tried again.

Annie hit the button to reel in the chain,

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Uhane replacing the Fleming.

but, alarmingly, the anchor winch made a clunky noise as it appeared to tie the chain into knots.

Annie immediately took her hand off the button while Uhane rushed to the bow to investigate. I held my breath, hoping it was a quick fix. The space where we floated suddenly seemed much smaller than it had before. The stress level in the boat rose as the reef, the shore and the dock closed in around us. Emery and I kept lookout, while Annie used the thrusters to make sure we stayed in place. Uhane re-entered the wheelhouse, wiping her hand across her forehead under the brim of her beanie and reported that a part of our windlass that directs the chain toward the anchor locker was completely snapped. We all groaned, resistant to leave the relief we experienced moments before.

WE BEGAN OUR expedition as novice boaters and after having read about the many unexpected trials and tribulations in Blanchet’s memoir, we expected the learning curve to be as steep as the fjords we set out to explore. That never lessened my desire to do the trip; I was inspired by Blanchet’s self-sufficiency and adventurous spirit.

We were focused on visiting the same places as Blanchet—and in a similar boat—but it was harder to imagine how we would embody her way of life 100 years later. But in a series of unexpected ways, we managed to come close by navigating the challenges we faced— like our anchor winch troubles—and learning as we went.

We attempted our first anchorage of the expedition on day three, June 13, in a windy bay around Ganges. We pulled into a space between two white sailboats and began to lower the anchor.

Unfortunately, before the anchor could catch we were pushed too close to our

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neighbours. Wind whipped our faces and threw the crew’s voices to the sea as we tried to shout to each other, so we decided to move to a more protected, less crowded bay.

Our second anchoring attempt was even less successful, ending before the anchor even reached the seafloor when the button that lowered the anchor stopped working. As we stood dumbly on the deck, the wind slapped my hair against my face as if to say “stupid, stupid.” And the wind was right. It dawned on us after paying for a slip for the night that the issue was the circuit breaker: we just needed to turn it off and on again.

I had always heard that superstitions grow on the sea and I felt the full force of fate after a subsequent anchoring attempt failed in a bay marked on the chart as a good anchorage. When we pulled our anchor up, it was slathered in a layer of mud. Why hadn’t it held?

One thing was clear: we needed better luck. Annie took her mother’s St. Christopher necklace from a drawer and hung it over the dashboard—the patron saint of travellers would help us with our next anchorage.

Perhaps St. Christopher preferred the drawer, because there in Green Bay we were forced to haul in 150 feet of line, inch by inch. Uhane and Emery hauled it up and fed it through the windlass with two-point redundancy, while I tugged at the chain from below to make sure it didn’t wrap on itself again.

IN ONE CHAPTER of The Curve of Time, Blanchet’s engine stops just before dark. She gets into her dinghy and rows five miles to the nearest shore with her trawler and children in tow. Hours later, she lands in a remote bay on Cortes Island. Thinking about this on our way back left us with no room to complain. Instead, we focused on solving our problem. We found out that the broken piece is called a fleming and marveled that something so essential is made from flimsy plastic. The local boat shops did

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Annie leaning out of the vessel one early morning on log watch.

not carry the part, so we had to order from its mother company in the United States. Annie sat on multiple, painful customer-service phone calls repeating “speak to representative!”

The soonest the new fleming could arrive was two weeks later, so we made the painful decision to skip Princess Louisa until we had a working windlass.

Instead, we headed north toward Desolation Sound because a teacher from Uhane’s hometown of Lopez Island, Brian, was in Prideaux Haven with his partner and their dog. They were generous enough to let us raft up to their sailboat for a couple of nights.

During the warmest days of the summer, Brian helped us create a more efficient manual anchor system: with a crate strapped to our bow, we pulled out 200 feet of chain and line, then reeled it into the crate—no windlass needed.

To thank him, we threw a big afternoon barbecue between our rafted boats. It turned into a warm, wonderful night.

We discussed our unfinished novels, photography and the bioluminescence in the water under the dull light of a waning crescent moon.

THE MANUAL ANCHOR system alleviated the stress weighing on us from the missing fleming. The following days

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Erin and Annie basking on the bow. Note the anchor chain in a crate. Left: The crew from left: Annie Means, Emery Hansell, Erin Beaudoin and Uhane Johnson.

in Prideaux Haven were spent swimming in hypnotizing seas full of moon jellyfish and hiking around the dense green woods in search of Phil’s cabin from The Curve of Time. We found the cherry trees and ivy that supposedly surrounded the cabin, but there was no sign of the building itself.

THE FIRST TIME we took up anchor with the new method, Emery received a shower of muck that splattered off the chain as she pulled hand-over-hand.

When she turned around with her pajamas covered in mud, we all gaped in surprise that erupted into laughter when she immediately dove into the chilly morning ocean to wash her clothes.

The following mornings, I stood next to Emery with a telescoping boat hook and whacked the mud off before it could reach her.

More than just working however, the manual anchoring system endowed us with an education in anchoring we never would have received simply using the windlass. We learned to clearly judge a good anchorage from a bad one by listening closely while the anchor set and watching the vibrations on the chain. When the seafloor is muddy, the chain takes tension, then slowly and silently releases. On a flat rock floor, you can feel the chain vibrating and sometimes hear a deep scrape; and on a diverse, rocky floor you can see the splashing-rattle of the chain as it makes its way around rocks until settling in a crevice for the night. During our days

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of manual anchoring, Emery took the brunt of the weight when hauling the chain back into the crate and earned her new nickname, the “anchor wench.”

AFTER WE FINALLY RECEIVED the new fleming only to find it rendered useless by bent screws, we continued to use our manual method, this time, however just as much out of love as necessity. Before our journey to Princess Louisa, however, we finally took the time to replace it. If Blanchet could fix an engine alone on Cortes Island, we figured we could fix a windlass at a public dock with cell service. We couldn’t find the right kind of screws in any of the small towns we passed, so Uhane, handy by nature, took two screws out of the plastic casing for the windlass and used them instead. She threaded the new fleming around the gypsy, clicked the notches into place, and secured it with the screws from the casing, while the rest of us sat on the dock examining the windlass manual and handing Uhane tools.

IT TOOK US until Princess Louisa, the tail end of our journey, to use our anchor winch confidently. After so many early mornings of yanking up countless feet of heavy chain, it felt strange to take up or let out chain with a button. We would mill about the wheelhouse, unsure of what to do with ourselves. But after the anchor was set, we sat back to enjoy the mountainous views dotted with spindly waterfalls knowing we had earned the technology. Our anchorage was as sure as our newfound independence.

The crew of By All Means is making a documentary about their adventures from this summer, which will come out next year. Follow their instagram for more details on the expedition and updates on post-production @Capimovie.

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Marlinspike Seamanship Part One, an introduction to the art and science of ropework

By Martyn Clark Knots Hitches Rope to object

Knots Loop Knots

Bowline.

Splices Permanent loops, rope to rope circles

Knob Knots

Figure of Eight.

DEFINING KNOTS, HITCHES, BENDS AND SPLICES

It’s not a term used much anymore— “marlinspike seamanship”—but, no matter if you are a sailor or a powerboater, it is an essential part of the boating experience. Unfortunately, knotting and splicing can seem complicated to many boaters but these skills, which form the basis of marlinspike seamanship, can be tackled in a fairly straightforward manner. It is hoped that this introduction will simplify the useful business of turning rope into an indispensable tool aboard your boat. And for the more experienced mariners, we have a knot-tying trick or two in there for you as well.

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Bends Rope to rope

Rolling Hitch.

Sheet Bend.

between a boat staying properly secured to a wharf or drifting away, or a crew member safely riding a bosun’s chair aloft or making a rapid and possibly crippling descent to the deck.

THE JARGON OF ROPEWORK

Every language has its idiosyncrasies and this is no more evident than in the language of the sea. For example, “rope” becomes “line” when it leaves the yacht chandlers and is put to use aboard a boat. Just to keep you on your toes, however, working with line, as in tying knots, bends, or hitches, or putting in a splice or a whipping is called “ropework” not “linework!”

On top of this, each line, with a specific designation, has a specific job to do: Sheets: You could forgive a landlubber for thinking that the sails are called ‘sheets’, because they look like bed sheets somewhat, but sheets are, of course,

Eye Splice.

used for trimming the sails; hence main sheet for the mainsail, jibs sheets for the jibs and spinnaker sheets for the… you get the picture.

Halyards: Derived from “haul yards”, these are lines that haul sails up, each with a specific name referring to the sail they raise such as main halyard, jib halyard, staysail halyard, etc. When sails were lashed to a yard in a square-rigged vessel the name made a little more sense as it was the yard that was hauled aloft.

Down Haul: A line that pulls a sail down to lower it or improve the tautness of its luff (leading edge).

Out Haul: A line that pulls a sail out (usually on the end of a boom or yard) to tighten it.

Rode: Less well known, a rode is the line that attaches an anchor to a boat,

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more commonly called an anchor line.

Beware! In sailing terminology ‘rode’ can mean something entirely different such as ‘wind rode’ or ‘tide rode’ whereby the direction of a boat’s bow at anchor is affected by the force of the wind or the tide.

Dock Lines: There are a lot of these in use when tied to a dock and, unfortunately, they often get misnamed. A ‘bow’ line and ‘stern’ line make sense as they lead from the bow forward and from the stern aft respectively. ‘Spring’ lines are a little more tricky as the ‘forward spring’ leads aft to the dock from a forward position on the boat and the ‘aft spring’ leads forward from aft.

These are valuable lines as they keep the boat from surging at the dock. And then there’s the ‘breast’ line which is short and leads at 90° to the vessel and keeps it snug to the wharf. Great for loading groceries but don’t leave it on for long. Being short, it allows for very little play, which you may need if a surge gets up. Many a torn out cleat or bent stanchion bare mute witness to a neglected breast line!

Here’s a trick question to try on your fellow boaters: How many ropes are on a boat?

The standard answer is none (they are all ‘lines’) or one (a bell rope) but, in fact, there are a few. Here’s what I’ve found, in addition to a bell rope: a ‘bolt rope’ (used to reinforce the edge of a sail); a ‘foot rope’ (slung under a yard to support a crew member); a ‘tiller rope’ (for lashing or controlling a large tiller); a ‘tow rope’ (for towing a disabled vessel); a ‘man rope’ (dropped on either side of a rope ladder to assist in boarding or disembarking a vessel).

acknowledge the distinction between the two!

KNOTS

The plot thickens: there are actually two kinds of knots.

The first kind are used to form a

loop, such as the bowline and are called loop knots. At this point I will stick my neck out and say categorically and undeniably: “If you are only going to know how to make one knot in your life, let it be the bowline.” (But more on this in Part II.)

Terminology Let’s now take a quick look at some terminology connected to cordage so that we may better understand knotting, hitching and bending down the road.

Whipping Wrapping twine around a rope’s end to prevent fraying or unravelling.

Working End The part of the rope being manipulated.

Bitter End Usually the opposite to the working end, which should be made fast when referring to the bitter ends of anchor rodes (literally, connected to the “bitts” or Sampson post).

Standing Part The inactive part, or in the case of block and tackle the part of the rope attached to the eye of the block that doesn’t move.

Bight A curve or loop in a piece of rope, or any central part of a rope coiled between its ends.

When the anchor line is running out never stand in a bight (remember ‘bights’ bite)!

Seizing Binds ropes to another object or together.

WHAT’S A KNOT AND WHAT’S NOT

Loosely speaking, a knot is anything you do with line—turns, tucks, passes.

However, the knot is broken down into four groups: knots, hitches, bends and splices. No one is going to make you walk the plank if you call a hitch a knot (on one level it is a knot) but there may be some curmudgeon at the yacht club bar who is a devotee of the Ashley Book of Knots and is unlikely to contribute to a second round of drinks unless you 46  D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2

The Grommet

The second kind of knot is one in which a knob or bunch is formed to prevent fraying or unreeving or perhaps for a handhold. This second family of knots are known as knob knots and include the popular figure of eight knot or stopper knot. As we all know (or should) a stopper knot will prevent a line inadvertently snaking out through a block or fairlead especially jib sheets and the mainsheet aboard a sailing vessel.

HITCHES

A hitch is a method of making a rope fast to another object. Possibly the most common hitch is the clove hitch in which a line is made fast to a post or stanchion. This is a great way of securing fenders to a stanchion because the weight of the fender aids the clove hitch in staying put. Unfortunately, this particular hitch doesn’t like anything but a constant load and can

work itself loose otherwise. We will look at how to prevent this when we examine it more closely.

BENDS

A bend secures two ropes together, unlike the hitch which secures a rope to an object. The sheet bend is most commonly used in this connection and has the advantage of doing a good job of securing two lines of different diameters together.

Incidentally, both the bowline and the sheet bend can appear to be tied correctly when, in fact, their strength and knotability are severely compromised. Again, more on this later.

SPLICING

Splicing can be viewed as a permanent knot. Most common is the eye splice which sometimes calls for a marlinspike in a three-strand rope or a hollow fid in braided line. The end

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Less commonly used, but useful, are the short and long splices for joining two lengths of line together and the grommet which is really a form of the long splice.

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Holiday Gear Guide 10 gifts for the boater in your life

BY BL AINE WILLICK

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Garmin inReach Mini 2

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SeaSucker Cutting Tables

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GoPro Hero 11

$530 Regardless of your boating skills, it is not unusual for loved ones to worry if a trip takes longer than it should. Get the adventurous boater in your family the inReach Mini 2 and stay in touch. It does not rely on cellphone coverage. Instead, the Mini uses a global satellite network to relay information. The Mini can send and receive texts, share locations, be a digital compass, access weather forecasts and has an interactive SOS alert system for emergencies. garmin.com/en-CA

$329 We all know a boater who is a bit too disorganized. Well, for the cluttered cruiser there is the durable RUX 70 L. A collapsible outdoor bag/ bin that fits whatever the adventure requires. Being fully weatherproof and with multiple configurations, this storage unit is at home on the foredeck, tucked away in a cabin or even strapped on your back. RUX is great for storing valuable gear in rough conditions and collapses down when not in use. rux.life

$170 Every cruiser can appreciate a good tune, whether relaxing in the cockpit or working in the depths of the engine room. The JBL Flip 6 is the perfect fit for both occasions. Waterproof and dustproof, this little speaker can take anything you throw at it.

With 12 hours of battery life and two-way sound, it will keep rocking long after the sun is down and you’re still working on the engine. jbl.com

$180 to $256 Not every boat has all the room in the world, so if the family fisher or the cockpit cook needs some extra workspace there’s the SeaSucker Cutting Tables. These tables suction onto the inside of the transom and are great for cutting bait, filleting fish or even as a serving table. The tray hangs over the edge, so it is easy to clean. With several sizes on offer there is an option for every type of boat. seasucker.com

$580 GoPro is synonymous with adventure and the outdoors. So, it is no surprise that their latest model made the list. If you or a loved one hasn’t upgraded their GoPro in a few years this might be the time to do so. The Hero 11 got a big boost in photo quality, has award-winning hypersmooth stabilization, and the front and rear LCD screens help frame the perfect shot. Who doesn’t love showing off their time on the water. gopro.com

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$115 In the past few years a few portable solar panels have popped onto the market, but we like the BigBlue 3. BigBlue is a bit heavier than the competition, but it continually outperforms them in cloudy weather. Its heft means you might not be taking it on a hike, but it’s perfect for keeping those small electronics charged up. It’s collapsible so when it’s time to use it you simply spread it out on deck and point it toward the sun. Folded, it is 11.6 inches by 6.3 inches. amazon.ca

$100 In the June, 2021 issue of PY we reviewed the MoonShade, a sturdy polyester awning which can be put up next to your boat, on the dock or on the beach. The ripstop polyester provides shelter from the wind and rain while the UV treatment protects against the sun’s harmful rays. The latest release is the MoonWall accessory which attaches to the MoonShade providing additional protection or privacy. Of course, it can also be used on its own as a tarp or wind break.

It’s made from durable, lightweight poly so it’s ideal for boat life. moonfab.com

$1,000 When paired with the EP Jacket, this salopette creates a head-to-toe waterproof solution that can withstand our winter weather. The reinforced seat and knees provide highly durable performance. A two-way waterproof zipper allows convenient relief and flexible venting while ensuring you stay dry underneath. The streamlined fit doesn’t compromise mobility, a double waist cinch gathers in the front when working in a bent-over or crouched position, and shoulder straps adjust to fit an extended range of torso sizes. A windowed cargo pocket and knife attachment keep gear accessible, and reflective trim on chest and cargo pockets increases visibility. mustangsurvival.com

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1. BLUEWATER CRUISING ASSOCIATION

The annual August Rendezvous of the Bluewater Cruising Association was held at Port Browning Marina on Pender Island. In total, there were 36 boats and 67 sailors in attendance.

The weekend was filled with fun activities, including dinghy boat races, boat visits and a fabulous happy hour and potluck dinner—the best dinner since the “pre-Covid days!”

One of the highlights of the weekend was the presentation of “Leavers Kits” to captains and crews of three boats, all of whom were leaving to go offshore in August.

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dezvous was an absolute blast! It’s always wonderful to see everyone who shows up!”

2. CATALINA

This year, the Catalina Rendezvous was a great success after a long Covid hiatus for the last two years. We had over 20 boats ranging in size from 27 to 45 feet at Telegraph Harbour Marina on Thetis Island. The Friday evening was a fun meet and greet with a social potluck of appies, BC wines and craft beer. Saturday was busy with a potluck breakfast, Telegraph Harbour pub crawl, a hilarious blindfolded dinghy race, and a potluck barbecue dinner. Next year’s

rendezvous will be held from July 7 to 9. Anyone interested in joining us can contact Rob Johnson at sailorguyrob@gmail.com.

3. CLASSIC YACHT ASSOCIATION

The 2022 Classic Yacht Association Fleet Rendezvous was held in Ganges at the Salt Spring Marina August 29 and 30.

With 20 classic powerboats from 1910 to 1963, the event was truly a “Cruise Back in Time.”

The Classic Yacht Association began in 1970 when a small group of vintage wooden powerboats enthusiasts decided to form an organization to perpetuate their interests. Thus the

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Classic Yacht Association was organized with a dedication to promote and encourage the preservation, restoration, and maintenance of fine old power-driven pleasure craft.

Anyone interested in joining the Canadian Fleet can contact Gord Wintrup at gord@bayfield.ca.

4. COMMANDER

The 2022 Commander Rendezvous was held at Ladysmith Community Marina on July 8 to 10 with 14 boats and 32 people in attendance. It was so nice to get together, compare notes and share stories with the group. We were especially pleased to see our US members again.

We were also delighted to be able to return to our regular activities including happy hour, the potluck dinner, informative guest speakers and the sharing of boat improvement projects and maintenance tips. New this year, and certain to become a regular event, was the Ladies Champagne Chat in lieu of our regular Book Club discussion.

We are looking forward to next year when our rendezvous is planned for Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes, on July 7 to 9.

5. CANADIAN CHRIS CRAFT

There was a great turnout by the Canadian Chris Craft Rendezvous

group. It was fantastic to see some new faces and to welcome back our American friends after a few years. We had a beautiful weekend at Ladysmith Community Marina, with 12 boats registered and over 26 people attending! Friday featured a pizza night on the dock, while Saturday was highlighted by the Chris Craft “Show and Shine” and our famous potluck with live music on the dock late into the night. Sunday welcomed new plans for our beloved Chris Crafts to venture home or travel to destinations anew, with many of us bumping into each other en route. Thanks to everyone for making the Canadian Chris Craft Rendezvous such a success!

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The Freedom Marine rendezvous was once again held at Dent Island Lodge with a wonderful turnout of Princess, Galeon and BRABUS boats. We are already looking forward to next year!

7. MACGREGOR

12 Boats and four members without boats attended the MacRendezvous at the Union Steamship Marina on Bowen Island June 3 to 5. Saynomore, Zephyr, Cassiopeia, Windchime, Mover, Tickety Boo, Nauti Nuff Time, Heaven Sent, DeeSeas, Gemini, 2Wish’N and Blackjack arrived by boat while the crews of Summerzcool, Rapture, Aurora and Impulse made the trip by ferry.

The workshop “Seven things Not To Do with Your MacGregor” hosted by

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Todd of Blue Water Yachts offered many ideas for members to consider.

There was a flurry of activity following the presentation as members inspected their steering and rudder systems.

Sunday morning saw the Burrard Inlet flotilla depart to catch slack and the Sunset Marina flotilla departed soon after. Three boats crossing or heading down the strait decided to avoid the nasty weather and stay another night at the marina to catch the better winds and ebb currents on Monday.

8. MONARO

On July 23 and 24, Monaro powerboats gathered to mark the 42nd anniversary of the rendezvous. As in many meets in the past, it was held at Port Browning Marina on North

Pender Island.

This year the number of boats attending was down slightly due to a few factors. With Covid still on the minds of people, a gathering of owners could possibly pose a health risk. The high cost of fuel was also a deterrent to travel for some. Despite these factors Peter and Lisa, long time Monaro owners in Seattle still came up for the meet. Also attending were Bob and Gail, long time multi-Monaro owners arriving in their 298.

Dinner was in the marina pub with breakfast at the famous local favourite of Joe’s Place, a short walk away.

9. NORDHAVN

The largest Nordhavn Owners Rendezvous (NOR) ever got underway

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May 10 at Victoria International Marina on Vancouver Island. A record setting number of Nordhavns and owners gathered for five days of education, camaraderie, food and fun; for many, the rendezvous served as a kick-off to cruising up to Alaska and beyond.

With 48 Nordhavns packed into the marina, it marked the most Nordhavn yachts ever gathered in the same place, although not all who attended came by boat. In total, owners of 67 Nordhavns representing 16 different models, mingled at dock parties, cocktail events, boat hopped and attended two days of seminars.

10. SEA SPORT

This year’s Sea Sport Rendezvous was

held in mid-September in picturesque Friday Harbor. It was attended by people from all over including California, Alaska and Wyoming.

The event gives us the chance to reconnect with our boat owners and their families in a casual atmosphere.

People and boats of all ages were welcome and we couldn’t ask for a more enjoyable group of people than we have in our Sea Sport community.

If you own one of our boats and you haven’t joined us in the past, you need to change that. If you don’t own a Sea Sport and you’re curious about our boats, our owners are all willing to share their experiences as well as a peek into their homes on the water.

Email julie@nmiboats.com to sign up for our 2023 rendezvous!

11. WESTCOAST WORK BOAT ASSOCIATION RENDEZVOUS

Held September 16 to 18, on Salt Spring Island’s Kanaka Dock in Ganges, WWBA’s Fall Rendezvous was a huge success with 23 boats and nine members without boats attending. It was an especially happy rendezvous since we were able to welcome some of our US members for the first time in three years and the weather was warm and sunny.

The boats were open for the always popular public viewing on Saturday afternoon, followed by the AGM and a potluck in the evening. We are looking forward already to the Spring Rendezvous in May 2023.

For information about WWBA, go to wwbaca.com.

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BY ALEX FOX

Celebrate the Difference A look at one-design and PHRF racing

I I’ve gone on the record as a fan of both one-design and handicap racing. Onedesign is wonderful, I’ll admit. Equal boats, tight, tactical racing, it’s a no excuses kind of gunfight. When the smoke clears, those who manage the course and the competition best, will come out on top. I also love the challenge of sailing against a variety of boats under handicap systems like ORC and PHRF. I fully appreciate and accept that not everyone wants to race a Martin 242, Melges 24, 54 - D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 2

Moore 24, Etchells and the like. Individuality is important, and handicap racing can still provide close, thrilling racing, albeit with a few extra twists. Here are a few thoughts and observations from a couple of recent, though very different, regattas I had the pleasure to compete in: The Puget Sound Sailing Championship (One-design) and the Thermopylae Regatta (PHRF).

FIRST, A LITTLE background. My good friend, Suze, had recently purchased the J-80, Excitable, in order to get back to helming and competing in her own boat after a long hiatus from skippering.

I was keen to help get the boat ready to compete, but first things first, our debut Wednesday night race on the new boat. It began with a pretty good start in light air, but after that we struggled

with our speed, which led to a gamble or two (that’s code for bad decisions) and you know how things go… We finished near the back. OK almost last, not the best way to begin a new boat campaign.

There was work to be done. To begin, the dry sailed bottom was in reasonable condition, only a few small repairs, a little wet sanding, some prettying up of the topsides and of course a new name: Alchemist! Next thing was to inspect the rig and clean up the frozen turnbuckles.

Once loosened and lubricated, on to the all-important tuning. Like most onedesign boats there are sailmakers’ tuning guides, which all seemed quite similar, easy to find a ballpark forestay length, mast step position, rake and prebend as a starting point. Next, the running rigging; lighter spinnaker sheets to begin, with more line upgrades over time, a Andrew Madding

few shackles replaced, a functioning compass and speedometer. With those foundational basics covered, things were coming together. Onto the sails, as always, the most important piece of any sailboat racing puzzle. Two spinnakers, an older .75-ounce for big wind, and a five-year-old .6-ounce all-purpose runner with some good life left. The jib was tired, the mainsail was ready for retirement. In fact, I sold it to the previous owner Don, some 15 years ago. So, Suze was on it, researching and ordering a new main and jib from UK Sailmakers in Sidney. They would be delivered in six weeks, just in time for our first regatta, the PSSC in Seattle.

A 10-HOUR TOW for Alchemist behind mothership Reepicheep saw us arriving at Shilshole Bay Marina Thursday night, giving us the better part of Friday for final boat prep and a short sail with the new main and jib. Both looked fantastic—very smooth—and they fit beautifully. There’s nothing quite like hoisting crispy new sails for the first time. Our teammates Kate and Cam, both dinghy racers, met us on board Friday night and we mingled with the PSSC entrants, including some of the other eight J-80 crew members at Corinthian Yacht Club. Things were getting exciting!

Morning dawned with a forecast of seven to 10 knots from the north. It had been three years since my last race on Puget Sound, and the anticipation of new competition was waking up the butterflies. We felt like the boat was prepared, but the questions of boat speed and meshing as a new team remained.

As we jostled for position in the prestart, those answers would be coming soon.

Suze was of course a little nervous getting back on the stick in a competitive fleet, but we got off the line on time in a slightly thin lane, but with good speed.

The next few minutes told a story: We weren’t slow. The breeze was quite shifty and we were among a group of three to separate from the pack. Approaching the weather mark, farthest to the left, having taken one last bite up to the port lay line, we rounded in the lead, a scant few lengths ahead of the next pair. “Hoist!”

Now the fun shifted to our downwind speed. The name of the game was to find

the right mode, the best angle. Sail too high and the trailing boats might soak down inside, sail too low and be rolled.

Then there were the added challenges of staying in the best pressure and away from the other fleets… No pressure at all. Ha! Well, we settled in, managing to find the right balance, eking out a few more lengths by the leeward gate. On the next upwind, we had the luxury of

going where we wanted, staying in phase with our nearest competitor, focussing on sailing fast, just like all the articles say. After three more legs, finishing on an upwind, race number one was ours.

WHAT A RELIEF, and confidence boost.

The breeze remained shifty over the next two races and we continued to sail well.

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and teamwork was holding up. Starts were very competitive and Suze managed the risk/reward well as we finished off a total of five wins and a second! The Seattle fleet was very welcoming, the racing was fun and we learned quite a bit about sailing the J-80 fast. For me, a big highlight was competing with two upand-coming youth racers. I know Suze felt the same and I think they enjoyed the experience as much as we did. It was a successful regatta all round for Team Alchemist!

ONE WEEK LATER in Victoria, we entered in the Thermopylae Regatta, a contrasting, yet no less challenging event. A fleet of 15 mixed sport boats, racing in a single PHRF around the buoys division.

Moore 24s, Hotfoot 27s, Martin 242s, Melges 24s, a J-24, an Elliot 770, a Santa Cruz 27 and an Etchells. Wow! The rat-

ing range was big with Alchemist slotting in fourth fastest. I’d raced against and on most of these boats, so I was very familiar with all the different traits and characteristics. I also knew the competition would be fierce. Suze and I were sailing with two new crew members, Hayley and Tom, and we were greeted with a lovely warm, sunny eight to 10-knot, shifty northerly on Saturday morning. A slightly short start line, combined with an amped up fleet meant this was going to be a tough nut to crack. Tense and tight crossings, dips, mark roundings and close boat interactions all combined to make the race course seem very busy.

Suze did a nice job getting us off the line in three races, but we also fell victim to an aggressive fleet, with an over early and a foul requiring a 360 penalty after the gun. Gaining enough time back against the fleet of mostly slower rated

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the right notes tactically and with good crew work and speed we sailed to a comfortable win. Somewhat surprisingly, we found a slightly lower mode downwind, with Kate flying the chute, me concentrating on strategy, Suze taking small bites down in the puffs and then coming back up to match the competition when required. Cam was stellar on the gybes, getting the chute around the forestay quickly, also providing a stream of wind and other boat information. In race number three we went too far left and got caught out by a big right shift. We were able to claw back on the first downwind, soaking and out-gybing the lead boat, gaining an overlap by the leeward gate. That comeback was very satisfying and I think galvanized our crew. Sunday’s races were in slightly more wind: 10 to 12 knots perhaps and although not everything went our way, our speed

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boats proved a big ask. We fought hard, sailed fast and generally finished where we should boat for boat, yet all too often we came up short on corrected time. Our upwind legs were good, but strangely we felt like our Achilles’ heel was downwind, a strength the weekend before. On this modified windward/ leeward course, with a downwind finish, the symmetrical boats could square back, often running dead downwind, or even slightly by the lee at times. We found ourselves soaking as much as we could, same as at PSSC, but were unable to match their angle. We were faster through the water, true, but our VMG was not much better than the Martins and Hotfoots, while the Etchells was in a different league, leaving us behind upwind and down.

Now, the essence of handicap racing is that as a faster rated boat, you must capi-

talize by getting ahead right from the start. Any time spent trying to catch a slower boat, is time in that slower boat’s favour. For a faster boat then, falling behind at the start, makes a good result difficult. Lesson one: Good starts are priority number one in any short course around the buoys racing, one-design or PHRF! We sailed well and had some really close racing, yet our overall best scores were 4, 4, 5, 5 in sharp contrast to the weekend before. That being said, we finished 15 seconds out of first in race one, and in several other races, we were a scant few seconds from moving up two, or even three places. That’s what I call good racing. Lesson two: It’s very important to fight for every inch around the entire racecourse. The second part is recognizing that while boat for boat strategies still apply, having the mentality of extending on slower rated boats is

most important. Every second counts so push to the very end of the race. In closing, I suspect that if we’d sailed a more traditional windward/leeward with an upwind finish, that results might have shifted a bit. Something for regatta organizers to consider as well. PHRF ratings are based on a boat’s performance on all points of sail. So, some variety in course selection, even for around the buoys, would be a good thing. That’s just my two cents.

WE HAD A GREAT time at both regattas and although the results showed a seventh at Thermopylae it was still fun, valuable racing for us. So, join in, expand your horizons, celebrate the differences and enjoy both one-design and handicap racing. There’s much to learn from each one. Good sailing, see you on the water sometime soon!

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Photo #1: Todd Creek on October 16, 2020.

Photo #2: Todd Creek on October 18, 2022.

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are very likely to exacerbate existing problems. However, other chinooks, like those originating in the Strait of Georgia and hatchery runs from the west coast of Vancouver Island, have bucked the multi-year downward trend. This would not have been possible without sensible threat mitigation policies.

There are other hopeful signs. After years of declining escapement numbers, BC sockeye and steelhead generally performed better in 2022. Unfortunately, climate change has become the accepted boogeyman for all the bad things that are happening to salmon. It is a serious threat but not the sole one.

Over-focusing on climate change opens the door for ignoring other human impacts, keeping bad fisheries policies and not developing effective mitigating measures.

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Smaller creeks and rivers faced significant consequences from this year’s prolonged drought. Photo #1 shows Todd Creek, a tributary of the Sooke River, on October 16, 2020. The stream flow is high and the pool in photo #1 is full of chinook salmon. This is the old normal for streams across coastal watersheds at this time of year.

Photo #2 shows the same section of Todd Creek during 2022’s prolonged drought. It was taken October 18, 2022, and it clearly shows the consequence of 100 days without rain.

One of the immediate solutions for this and future drought mitigation is to use weirs and dams to increase summer water storage, and to ensure weir management protocols mandate water storage and release guidelines for salmon during low water. Similar arrangements with the Greater Victoria Capital Regional District (CRD) currently exist for the Sooke River and its tributary, Charters Creek.

These CRD releases provided enough flow to draw chinook into the river, permitting broodstock capture for the Sooke Salmon Enhancement Society’s Jack Brooks Hatchery. According to the society’s Bryan Manning they have “100,000 chinook eggs in the incubation room.” While this is less than they would like it provides a buffer against lost natural spawning capacity.

The same water that serves the hatchery provides critical flows to Charters Creek. It sustains side channel fry rearing habitat during the summer, while providing main stem spawning capacity later in the year.

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Even with this coordinated approach, the Cowichan’s flows dropped consid-

erably as the photo of Skutz Falls on page 61 shows.

Note, the fishways are above water, but considerable water is still passing over the falls. The water release program was made possible by increasing the lake’s height behind a weir located at the outflow of Cowichan Lake. The weir, river flows and lake levels are closely monitored and updated by Bri-

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THE COWICHAN RIVER provides a case study for restoring salmon. In the late 1970s its chinook numbers began to drop significantly, due mainly to human activities like logging, fishing, road building and water extraction. By 2009, chinook escapement was barely

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Salmon Fishing in December December coincides with an increase of legal sized US hatchery chinook showing up in southern BC waters.

They are easily identified because the US adipose fin clips nearly 100 percent of their hatchery chinook. In some regions these salmon make up 80 percent of the abundance of chinook

by February or March. By comparison, Canada lags far behind clipping only 10 to 15 percent of its chinook hatchery production. Anglers in the most populated regions like Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and the southern half of Vancouver Island, have been beneficiaries of the US hatchery programs since the 1970s.

While winter angling weather is occasionally challenging, December can be the best time to try for salmon.

Here’s why. Besides the abundance of identifiable hatchery salmon, which takes pressure off wild stocks, their bite timing is predictable, lure choices and tactics are simple and most trips are framed by stunning crystal-clear ocean and mountain vistas.

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salmon on your dinner table in time for the holidays.

Fish the Tide Change This is rule #1. Slack water activates the dinner bell up the entire food chain.

Set your gear about two hours before the change, fish through the slack water and beyond for at least an hour.

Then, if the bite stops, go home.

Match the Feed Winter chinook are aggressive feeders so troll, drift-fish or mooch with smaller lures and baits from four to 5.5 inches long. Larger lures do work when chinook are on squid or prespawning adult herring. Lure colours are important: Consider combinations of UV, glow, green, chartreuse, blue, black, white and chrome, with a touch of UV red or pink. Use full sized flashers to impact a snappy action to your lures and baits. Best leader lengths to a flasher can range from 24 inches with hoochies to 54 inches with baits.

Search, Locate and Stay Trolling is the best winter strategy for

finding where the feed and salmon are located. Use your electronics to locate feed stacks and ball-ups because this is where winter chinook are likely to be. Once you get a strike, whether you land or lose that fish, return to the same spot as quickly as possible.

Use Current to Your Advantage Since finding fish is a key to success, minimize trolling into the current. Fish back eddies formed by points of land, islands and even man-made structures.

On the seaward edge of the eddy, troll with the direction of the current, then turn into the eddy as it curves back on itself. You can effectively cover a significant amount of water if the inside current is slow enough to make progress in either direction.

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Finally, some wind! It had been far too long since this reviewer experienced even five knots of wind for a sailboat review—which makes it pretty-well impossible to evaluate sailing characteristics. On the day of our test, a 15-knot westerly was perfect and the new Catalina 425 was not only tons of fun, but so very easy to sail!

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DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION The Catalina 425 (43 feet, six inches or 13.26 metres) is the middle model of the three in the Catalina Ocean Series (385, 425 and 445) offered by this longtime builder. The 425 is equipped with a bow master, two aft cabins and two heads as standard. A furling main, furling jib, single rudder, twin wheels and a bow thruster setup make it a snap to sail and manoeuvre.

The late Frank Butler founded Catalina Yachts back in 1970, and the then California-based company built more than 60,000 sailboats. (Well-known local builder, Forbes Cooper, produced more than 6,500 Catalina 27s right here

in the Lower Mainland, starting in 1974 and through to the 1980s).

The 425, designed by Gerry Douglas, replaces the popular Perry-designed Catalina 42, of which some 1,000 were built until about 2007. The 42 had more of a traditional hull shape while the 425 hull, introduced in 2017, was completely redesigned to make it faster and about 2,500 pounds lighter with less ballast, an almost plumb bow and three more feet of waterline length. The deckhouse was also redesigned with a much sleeker look and elongated, bullet shaped windows.

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deck liner, structural grid, and hull liner are one-piece molds, with the singlepiece deck cored with a honeycomb material. A new hull-deck joint design incorporates a double flange (and molded toe rail) that allows the stanchions to be thru-bolted with aluminum backing plates for added strength. The bow incorporates a watertight collision bulkhead for added safety. The test boat came with a lead fin keel, though a shallower draft wing keel is optional.

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A large door in the transom opens to a substantial storage area, which can also be accessed from the cockpit. Access through the cockpit is between the twin wheels (or side boarding gates) and to either side of a fixed folding-leaf table with a built-in cooler and compass mounted at its forward end. The aft end of the table holds a central 12-inch Garmin navigation pod, which is great as it can be swivelled and seen from either helm station. Both sides of the stern pulpit are fitted with raised, built in seats.

Another feature I liked was the solid stainless handrails that run forward from the stern pulpit to the side boarding gates. This is a sturdier setup than the wire lifelines that typically run from the stern pulpit to the bow.

One unusual but interesting idea is a folding leaf for the starboard cockpit seat. Remove the cushion and it flips open to create a sizable sunpad area (or outdoor berth). One might expect access to a cockpit locker here, but this setup allows more space in the cabin below. The portside locker, though, does open to 1. Both the dinette and starboard settees are convertible to berths. 2. The starboard aft cabin features a cosy double berth. 3.

The bow master comes with an island berth (with electric lift for storage under the mattress). 4. Boarding is via the swim platform and transom stairs. 5. It was a blast to be screaming along in winds up to 19 knots!

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a substantial cabin/storage area below.

A hardtop dodger, with skylight to make it easier to see the main, covers the forward portion of the cockpit, and this provides good protection from spray and the weather. The test boat was ordered with canvas curtains all round, but they were not yet fitted.

THE RIG The Seldén, deck-stepped double-spreader mast has a single backstay. Nice and simple. It can’t get much easier to set the sails with both the optional Seldén electric furling jib and inmast electric furling. Push buttons at the starboard helm control the winches for furling both sails. The mainsail furling system (with vertical battens) is clever.

To unfurl, the outhaul is wound on an electric self-tailing winch on the cabin top, then the unfurl button at the helm is pressed, and both the electric furler and electric winch are synchronized so that the furler motor unfurls while the outhaul pulls it out tight. It’s an interesting bit of software that ties the two together. Another set of buttons controls the self-tacking jib. Its sheet runs back to a manual self-tailing winch on the portside coaming. For those wanting larger headsails, a genoa track runs along the deck. A matching winch is on the starboard coaming, and both are easily ac-

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cessed from the helm. Mainsail sheeting is controlled by a German double-ended system. All halyards, reefing lines, vang and such lead back on deck to the cabin top to either the electric or manual winches.

INTERIOR The interior is relatively traditional, with two side-by-side aft cabins, the L-shaped galley to port and wet head to starboard. Forward, you’ll find the U-shaped lounge with high-low folding leaf dining table. Across from that are two settees with a table between the two. That table can double as a chart table with a hinged lid and storage for small electronics and cruising guides. Both the dinette and starboard settees are convertible to berths. The bow master comes with an island berth (with electric lift for storage under the mattress), vanity and ensuite head with separate shower.

Woodwork is a mix of teak panelling and horizontal maple slats. There is a pleasing balance between the amount of wood and the textured fibreglass headliner and accents. Upholstery is of durable golden-coloured Ultraleather.

All doors are framed in aluminum for added strength. Handrails are very well placed—something often missing in modern interior designs. I was happy to

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see ample storage throughout, which is important for extended cruising. Good natural light is provided by overhead hatches, the deckhouse and hull windows.

The portside aft cabin is interesting in that in addition to access from the cockpit, it has a hinged section that can flip up vertically to provide excellent access to the engine, mechanical space, hot water tank and rudder area by opening several different panels. This is also where the optional four-kW or 6.5-kW Fischer Panda generator would be mounted.

That hinged panel can also be used to create a narrower berth and what could be termed a quarterberth, or, of course, when folded down, a regular double berth like the starboard aft cabin.

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wine cooler as well as a separate drawer fridge and freezer. The galley offers all you could wish for when cruising for extended periods.

SYSTEMS In addition to the 57-horsepower Yanmar diesel, the test boat was fitted with an upgraded 6.5-horsepower Lewmar electric bow thruster for easy manoeuvring. Heating will be a hydronic system, though it was yet to be installed. Besides the standard instrumentation, an 18-inch Garmin radar was mounted on the mast. The test boat was equipped with upgraded 8D AGM Lifeline batteries. The wiring that was visible, was clean and nicely done.

UNDERWAY The Yanmar diesel with a fixed prop pushed us along at a surprising speed of 7.4 knots at 2,460 rpm and

8.4 knots at wide open throttle (3,100 rpm). This is great speed for a sailboat under power.

While it was a blast to be screaming along in winds up to 19 knots, with a full main and jib we were slightly overpowered, but with a firm hand on the helm, we weren’t quite at the point where the boat was rounding up, but too close for comfort, so we furled the main about 25 percent. During a lull in the wind, which dropped to 13 knots, our closehauled speed was 5.9 knots at 35 degrees apparent.

After an hour or so tacking upwind (without adjusting anything), we went back to a full main and turned downwind. With 17 knots of true wind speed, and an apparent wind angle of 120 degrees, we were speeding along at 8.8 knots. On a beam reach (90 degrees

apparent), at the same wind speed, our speed was 7.5 to 8 knots. It would have been exciting to hoist an asymmetric spinnaker, but alas, that was a sail that the new owner was yet to decide on.

CONCLUDING REMARKS With excellent cruising amenities, the new Catalina 425 will make an excellent platform for weekends or extended voyages, and it comes with a Category A— unlimited offshore—rating. Its interior is well thought out and practical. With a redesigned hull, one could expect to get to destinations at much faster speeds, whether under power or sail. The furling jib and main will make it easy to sail even singlehanded. According to yacht broker Specialty Yachts, the next Catalina 425 ordered will be offered at US$544,459, fully commissioned.

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1999 BAYLINER 5788 — $659,000

2006 BENETEAU 57 — $640,000

2000 BAYLINER 4788 — $335,000

2005 NORDIC TUGS 42 $569,000

MARLOW-HUNTER $329,900

2004 MERIDIAN 341 $235,000

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1979 CANOE COVE 48 $160,000

2011 BENETEAU FIRST 30 $124,900

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1999 LIMESTONE 24 $54,900

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•Great ocean views of Quathiaski Cove and Discovery Passage•Rancher is at foot of 0.41 acre lot next to •Great ocean views of Quathiaski Cove and Discovery Passage•Rancher is at foot of 0.41 acre lot next to ferry to Campbell River• Mature shrubs provide lots ferry to Campbell River• Mature shrubs provide lots of privacy along front of home• Up the hill is a 2 bedof privacy along front of home• Up the hill is a 2 bedroom trailer currently rented out to long-term tenant room trailer currently rented out to 681 long-term tenant DL364 Whiterock Pass Bull Rd 681 Bull Rd. •Short walk fromPass all services in Quathiaski Cove home, DL364 Whiterock Maurelle Island off-grid 1010 Topcliffe Rd •Shortofwalk fromBay allhome services in Quathiaski Cove Island off-grid home, guest cabin & workshop situated on a 22 acre Oceanfront family in the heart of Heriot Bay with 150 feet &oftwo walkguest on ocean Oceanfront family home in the heart Heriot with guest Maurelle cabin & workshop situated on a 22 acre oceanfront Quadra Island oceanfront rancher cabins MLS# 398397 • $249,000 MLS# 398397 • $249,000

oceanfront property!This property boasts incredible views 150 acrossfeetWhiterock to frontage frontage& views & viewsacross acrossHeriot Heriot Bay & beyondSutil to Channel the mainland of walk Pass on ocean property!

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Island and a Read newerIsland commercial gradecommercial wharf. the island!

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THIS FAMED HISTORIC PROPERTY IS A RARE JEWEL situated just minutes from the ferry on North Pender Island. A boater’s sanctuary, the Gulf Islands are known for their gorgeous vistas, calm waters, safe harbours and marinas. Waterlea is 3.5 acres of peninsula waterfront with ocean and sandy beaches on 3 sides and an ultra rare +/-1 acre private island. Featuring Canada’s first olive grove with 80+ olive trees. The presence of thriving olive trees is evidence of the warm, arid micro-climate of the area. Over 2300 feet of low bank ocean frontage makes this truly one of a kind. The 112 year old manor is a rustic farmhouse that sits just feet away from the water’s edge and boasts dramatic aquatic views from every principal room. The separate cottage sits at the high water mark, making it more boat than house. Sit back on the deck and watch the otters play, the eagles soar, and the orcas swim through the kelp beds. For those who know...it’s “paradise, actually!”

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Specs: Hull Length 21’3” Overall Length 23’9” Beam 8’0” Draft to Keel 17” Deadrise 20 deg.

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steering mechanism still appeared to be bone dry. “OK,” I thought, “I guess it needs more juice.”

We continued to fill, and the fluid continued to disappear. Finally, the bottle was empty, but there was still no action on the steering wheel. Flummoxed, we re-lidded the filler hole and turned our attention to the engine, which required removing a cushioned seat and fibreglass panel to access.

When we pulled away the panel, we found the problem... and our fluid.

Somehow, the steering control cable had snapped in half and all of the fluid we’d poured into the line had drained out where it was broken, leaving a large, greasy puddle next to the engine.

Thankfully, the bottle we’d used was small and the spill was fairly well contained though it had, of course, splattered all over the engine itself. None had leaked out of the boat.

With the spill cleaned up, we were relieved to find that the fix appeared to be an easy one. Perhaps we were more shaken up than we thought because in hindsight our first move probably should have been to open up the engine area and have a look at the steering cables before emptying the entire bottle of steering fluid into the system.

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This is really taking a lot of fluid…

Steering Surprise

BY JANE WICKMAN

T “The boat won’t turn…” Ominous words to hear at the start of a trip.

Luckily, we were only about 20 metres from the dock when I realized that we’d lost steering on our 25-foot powerboat.

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Even more fortuitous, the wind and tide were favourable and they slowly pushed us back toward our slip in the marina without any further fuss.

My mate and I stood on either side of the cockpit with boathooks at the ready as we drifted toward the dock.

Safely tied to the dock and only a little shaken up from the event, we turned to the “why?” and “how?” of what had happened. A quick call to an expert (a friend of ours) suggested that it was likely our hydraulic steering fluid and to check the fluid level and top it off—

seemed simple enough.

We had fluid on-hand so we opened the filler hole at the wheel, inserted the funnel (vastly oversized for the job) and began to refill the line. Neither my mate nor I knew exactly how much fluid the system would take, and we were surprised that it seemed to be so thirsty. When half the bottle was poured in we paused the procedure and tried the steering again. Nothing.

Peering through the filler hole, the Continued on page 113

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