ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Commercial salmon fisherman on west coast of British Columbia for many decades, with stories to tell, from a very unique point of view. [March 2000]
today when I drove the kids to school, as soon as we got to the lower levels from the mountain, we were in thick fog,had to put the van lights on. Of course I still knew where to go because I was able to see the road still, and didnt think of the fog as being much of a bother, but there have been times on the boat that it is completely different. Fog on a boat makes the most seasoned sailor fearful at times, because one really doesnt know where the road is out at sea. When the fog comes over the fleet, it is very easy to get disoriented and have really no idea where you are and where the other boats are too. Radar has made things a little easier, but it doesnt make things safe. In the olden days when we were out without radar on any boat it was different still, but everyone fishing kept a good lookout. You see we are always moving when fishing and the boats constantly change their position, and could collide very easily with a lot of damage, especially when the wind is blowing and the sea is unsettled. "A lot of damage" ends up very often with the boat sinking, and sometimes with the crew on it. I remember one year with my dad fishing off a place called esperanza on the west coast, and we were coming from a repair place called cpc where we had to get some things done. The inlet is very long sort of like the fiords of norway, with very deep water right up to the land with cliffs straight up so travel is pretty easy and safe. But when the fog came that one day, without radar we had no idea where to go, the charts showed the channels but without knowing where we were, we just steered sort of with the compass, which should eventually bring us out to sea. Not much acccuracy! But to our surprise during the day a boat came quite close to us, motoring along full speed in the thick fog, without seemingly any concern. My dad recognized the boat as named "cetus" another fisherman named seppo, and explained that he had during the clear daylight hours measured the running time from one buoy or light to another and marked them on his chart. He had then done the runs often enough to give confidence, and was able to go at full speed. "Se meis kylla ossa" "that guy knows what he is doing". This was our first year of fishing and we had lots to learn, didnt even have a radiotelephone, which I wouldnt leave the wharf without nowdays, but things were different then and we didnt know any better, and neither did many others. The travelling was all right in the fog with deep water and probability of other boats coming the other way fairly small, and knowing that the other boats would be looking out at the same time. There is in the new testament a story(john 9:1-3) about a man born blind, and the diciples of Jesus asking who sinned the man, or his parents that he was born blind. Jesus said neither had sinned but that the works of God might be made manifest in him. Now that is a hard thing to understand, never could really, and when my daughter leah was born with downs syndrome and heart defect, I really, really couldnt understand why,what possible reason could this happen, to me of all people who loves children with all my heart. And worse, to have her die, even though I would have given everything I have, and my life also to let her live. The works of God be made manifest in him? Or her? Special people are here to give direction to others, to let others know where they are in life and allow them to do the right things with confidence, so that they wont be on the course to collision. The blind leading the blind? pauli
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