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Continued from page 16 spotting unidentified shoals. They of the trip itself of course, but also how to be getting smaller. Like a shoe that
father. He remembers his father, like like to discover the world, see what they became close. They remember has become too small for the growing
many fathers who push their children is going on in the water, look under sitting around the fire in the evening kid, the old Whisper will soon be too
to go further, telling him that “you the hull, look at the reflection of the and chatting about everything. All small to accommodate the Arseneault
have nothing if you don’t try”. His moon on the water, be frightened as Dave’s children have continued to sail. family on their quest for adventure.
father inspired his passion and taught they realized how dark the sky can be Dave’s daughter became a formidable
We are those children who have
him of always push the limits farther at night and how terrifying an agitated and fearless racer, winning many learned the skills under the watchful
and go beyond what he never thought black sea can be when your little boat trophies as she competed in various eye of their sailor parents and our
would be possible. is all by itself on a big lake. They races on the St Lawrence River. children will be tomorrow’s skippers.
I was humbled and puzzled by like to feel the wind in their face. Today, Pam shares her passion and These are our parents who have
this story and when I returned home They like to follow the motion of the actively promotes sailing by teaching nurtured our passion for sailing.
I looked around my friends from boat bouncing between waves and adults in her community. Each time we come back to port,
the sailing club and began asking the waves splashing the hull. They For Bob Dumond, the sailing there is a new story to tell, there is
them how they began sailing. They need to measure themselves against passion began on a fishing boat when something new they have learned, be
are passionate skippers and I was something bigger than themselves. It he was a young child with his father it something about sailing, fishing,
curious to find out what made them becomes especially inspiring when who transmitted his passion for water or about themselves or even about
became this way. They were eager they see their fathers, mothers, and to his children. Later, when Bob had their father. No one is the same after
to tell me their stories about their uncles successfully measuring up to children of his own, he brought them, a sailing voyage, as the young Conrad
youth and began recalling stories of the challenge and winning the battle. as infants, on the family boat wherever Coleman was singing upon is arrival
sailing and fishing with their fathers. This is what inspires young children they went for holidays. Now, each at Sable d’Olonne: “He’s got the
I was amused at their descriptions of and changes their perception of their member of the Dumond Clan has his world in his hands” (1.).
makeshift sails done with whatever parents to that of role models. own sailboat: Papa Dumond sails with I wanted to pay a small tribute to
they could find. Others such as our Many people have taken their his wife Sylvie, Shawn sails with his our fathers who share all the love they
friend Clare Jordan who grew up on offspring with them and taught dog, and Dan sails with his wife. have with their children. Thanks for
the shores of lake Ontario displayed them to sail. I think of Dave Smith
In another family, Liam and the voyage Guys.
ingenuity: he and is brother used to who initiated his three boys and one
Thomas, age 8 and 7, boarded their 1. Boatner Edward, (1927).
take their mother’s sheets that were daughter Pam, early on in their life, to
parent’s sailboat as infants. The Spirituals Triumphant, Old and New.
hanging on the clothes line to make sailing. When Pam was about 15, they
parents, Sebastien and Caroline, felt Sunday School Publishing Board,
as sails in order to give more speed to decided to embark on a special voyage that sailing was a great family activity
their small rowboat. down the River, from Kingston to for these adventurous boys for whom, National Baptist Convention.
Christine Ouellet
Boys and girls naturally like Long Sault aboard an Albacore. They going fishing on the little zodiac is the Media coordinator, Long Sault Yacht
freedom and adventure, they like were to camp along the way. They ultimate reward. But they continued Club
exploring new territories, new shores; have wonderful memories of that trip, to grow up, while dad’s boat seems Cornwall PSS member

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