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KBBS Archive 00,000
Re: Fireball Sailboats
Posted By: Mark Kanzler In Response To: Re: Safety colours (Roger Tulk)
Date: Wednesday, 5 August 1998, at 10:34 a.m.
I have only seen fireballs once in my life. It was when I visited an uncle in Toronto in ~1969. That was the same summer I learned to sail in a 20 ft signus (sp?) sloop.
Do people still sail Fireballs?
> I and a friend were once aided by a power boater, when the rudder
> of his Fireball sailboat popped off and went floating down the Upper
> Niagara River in the direction of the Falls. Our only comment when
> he brought the rudder back for us was "Oh, thank God you're a
> Canadian!" Accidents happen to everyone, but being rescued by
> an American in Boundary waters would be more than national pride could
> bear.> I fish the waters between Vineland and Niagara-on-the-Lake on
> the South Shore. I never see canoes or kayaks except very close to
> shore, where most motor boaters and only a few Sea-Doers go.
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