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Dear Niven,
If we are talking about past memories, of one's
formative years, in foreign countries, Jeffrey Archer better watch his step if
you ever decide to put pen to paper, in fact Mills & Boon could have a
completely different attraction to woman.
See you soon, I am just about to set off from
Manchester, back to the home land.
In haste, because I could not resist.
Ian of Noss
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:12
AM
Subject: Re: Articles about the Vikings
& logs
At 20:07 09/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
Dear
Laurel,
During my ten years in British Columbia. I spent almost a
year with the
Straits Towing Company on a tug boat called the Fury Straits.
We
would leave Vancouver B.C. and in about thirtysix hours arrive at a spot
called West Bay on Vancouver Island. It was nearby Santula on an
island
across from it, We would spend a few days putting together
flat booms of 72
sections of logs. This was done by walking across
the various rafts which
had been made up by the loggers. They
brought down logs from the forests on
the island and dumping them in the
water. Then they would put logs at the
sides called Side sticks,
logs at each end, called head sticks and tail
sticks then logs were laid
across the top, cant remember what we called
them... these were all
drilled with holes to allow wires to join them
together.
When we had them all lined up we would attach a towing bridal
with a
yoke which was gradually let out from the stern of the tugboat as we
started on our way back to Vancouver. Our return jouney would take
from 5 to
6 weeks account a speed of only one or two knots and having to
tie up when
the tide changed and going through several narrows where you
had to wait your
turn to get through account very strong tides and many
other tugs waiting
also. Thought it might be interesting for you
to know that a Sinclair was
involved at this late date in such an
endevour.
Remember that Scotland and Ireland were all covered
with forests in those
early years as was Finland and Sweden, so there
were plenty of places to go
for logs. Of course there was always the
problem of not being received in a
friendly fashion but the Vikings
never worried about that. All the best,
Donald J.H.
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Donald,
I
know you are my cousin but you have had such an adventurous, varied
and
interesting life that you should begin jotting your memories down.
Your
reply on "logging" shows that you have a 'gift' for graphic description
and
almost total recall.
Please do this for the sake of Andrew, Maureen and
the rest of us and
don't leave out the 'steamier' moments in
Cairo and Tokyo - you might
even have a best-seller within your grasp - if
you'd only have the courage
to 'spill the beans' (but not about me, of
course!).
Niven
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