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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY,17,1988, PAGE 19 Bevan Crighton ' s sail to Bermuda,'- against ail- odd,,s isy MIKE JOHNSTON For Bevan Crighton a sail to Bermuda last summer offered the best of times. and the worst of times. Crighton, 49, was the lone Canadian entered in the Bermuda 1-2, a race from Newport, Rhode Island Wo Bermuda held every two years., In the 635-nautical mile,race; a boat is singlehandedly piloted down t Bermuda thon sailed back Wo Newport with 'a co-skcipper. ."I had al ways wanted Wo do singlehànded sailing and I thought the 1-2 was right up my alley,". Crighton, a four-year member of the Whitby Yacht Club, Wold club members last -Wednesday night. "It was a well-organized. race with 40 boats entered but when I left Newport I nover saw another sailboat. But it was comforting to know that people knew when I Whitby house, league hockey SQUIT Tioer I Kinsmen... 2 Melanie ..... i Curtis Clark Andrew Mueller R. -Hickingbottom Waterbed CoA. Kimu Crouch... 0 J. 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Richard Stdîk MMGEIYJUVENILE- Feb. 7 Las=o.... 4 T. Taylor (2) D. Bastarache W. Davidson Gus BrownL. A. OlReillY H&BSigns.. 8 Optimlist.... 2 R. Brown H. Kaleta K. Duncan D. Jackiin M. Newel D. Blandfoed S. Helnm(2) D. Gafley, B. MacDonnel launched' and ready for inspection. Ho failed. "Thore were a, lot of littie problems 'wbich .1I could overcome but on the second inspection that night I stili had probloms so I was ready to give up. I- thought -I had had it," rocalls Crighton. BE VAN CRIGHTON was . supposed Wo be there (Bermuda)," -said Crighton.' But bis memories of the race actually began three weeks before it took place. Ho was readying bis AIberg 30 and brushing up on his .celestial navigation W., preparo for the Gulf Streain. The race was Wo start on June 13, with competiWors expected Wo be in Newport on June 10. On the morning of June 9 Orighton was in Toronto. Ris Alberg was still moored at Whitby.harbor. 'Whon I got back Wo the harbor and brought my boat around Wo the Town's boat launch I wasn't watching and ran aground. It ,was embarrassing when I had Wo tell the guys at the marina I was stuck whon I had been telling them I was off Wo Bermuda Wo compote," said Cighton. It took an hour Wo get the boat out of the mud and CrighWon was ready for bis trip W Newport. But bis next obstacle was tho car ho borrowed to transport the boat clown. "The car had an oul leak and I was putting in a quart of oul every 50 miles. Finally the car just filled with smoke. The problem was a rusty oul pan," Crighton Wold bis audience. It was now June il and CrighWon had reached Newport but ho couldn't find the boatyard where ho was Wo launch bis boat. That problem took a while to solve but finally ho had the boat I However, that niàht, Crighton met one of the race organizers Who helped him te the point, hé was allowed tp enter the race. Ilow Cfghton w4s. ready. It - was a Saturday a#id Crighton recalls -the weather being miserable. "The weather just kept getting worse and worse. I didn't feel comnfortable leaving the boat and going below We eat or sleep se I stayed in the cockpit for two days." On the third day out the weather 'had improved, enough that Crighton feit safe We go down We the cabin for food and Idecided We have one more look around before I went to lie clown and when I went up We the dock all I could see was a. skyscraper. I finally realized this was a- container ship bearing down on me.- I believe if I hadn't looked around thon, I wouldn't be here Wonight , said CrighWon who was able to steer bis boat out of the path of the ship. "Ail I saw was this steel Wall as it went past me. [t took me a while We calm clown after that."- His fifth night out-was one of the most beautiful ho had ever witnessed. "There were no clouds and al. the stars were out. That is a night that can nover be taken away from me." On bis sixth day, Crighton spotted Bermuda and ho enterod St. Georges port at 2 p.m. Ho stayed a week in Bermuda where ho was . joined by his co-skipper Jayne Webber. Two hours out on the return trip, Crighton's boat ippod a sail. It took five hours to get the boat back We Bermuda for repairs. Once fixed, Crighton had a trouble-free trip back to Newport second-place finish in b is category which 'included seven aS« eeivPdaGE 21 yfo CORPORATION OF~ TOWN 0F WHI WHITBYILRPLNSIT RARE THE ITBY. Effective FEBRUARY 29. 1988, Whitby Transit wl be increasing passenger tares to thefoltowing: ADULTS 70 cents. STUDENTS 55 cents SENIORS 45 cents CHILDREN 40 cents MONTHLY PASSES: ADULTS $26.0 STUDENTS $18.00 SENIORS $15.00 CHILDREN ,$13.00 R.A. KUWAHARA, P. Eng., Director of Public Works. 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