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i Couple Set Sail on World Cruise Retirement Community Within Toron The Canadian Siatcsn P ?/>o ;>* is «. j U' si, X7 J, E : - ,,i v " ft, PSA ■ , ' s * - SA . Steve and Anna Doyle prepare to set sail from Port of Newcastle on Monday. Monday. The couple embarked on a voyage which will take them around the world during the next three years. The Doyles, who reside in Toronto, are sailing a 35-foot trimaran which Steve built himself. by Peter Parrott . Around the time Canadians Canadians are shovelling snow from sidewalks and scraping scraping ice from windshields, Steve and Anna Doyle will be cruising the Pacific in -< their 35-foot trimaran. Steve and Anna left the Port of Newcastle on Mon- ,, day to begin a three-year 1 f trip which will probably } I take them around the globe. Steve Doyle, a 48-year-old * building renovator and 1 / sailor for the past 20 years, / is the son of Vincent and , N Ann Doyle, of Newcastle. Being a builder by trade, . he constructed his triplehulled triplehulled vessel seven years ago, during a stay in New Zealand. The project took about 18 months. Then, with 'X.his wife, Anna, a legal secretary, secretary, he sailed back to Canada and stored the sailboat sailboat at the Port of Newcastle Newcastle for several years. • The ship, which is made , of plywood covered in fibreglass, fibreglass, is not beyond the capabilities of any person who is able to work with his Hands. "If you've got a good spt of plans and you're handy, you can do it," Steve ^explains. ■ But he adds that the ves sel consumed a large amount of his time. He recalls recalls working on it for seven days a week, twelve hours a day. "There wasn't much time to do anything else," he adds. The finished product is a ship which is much lighter than a single-hulled sailboat. sailboat. Its total weight is about five tons. Trimarans may capsize under emergency conditions,'but unlike the traditional keel boat, they will likely remain afloat. Single-hulled sailboats, sailboats, with their heavy ballast ballast in the keels, will sink. Looking ahead to the journey, the Doyles say the longest ocean trek will be on the Pacific, immediately after leaving the Galapagos Islands. That's a distance of 3,000 miles which means about a month at sea. Naturally, they're equipped equipped with all the comforts of home. Every available locker or compartment is laden with provisions, sijice many items cannot be purchased in mid-voyage. Steve bakes fresh bread at sea. And although the menu may lack some items such as ice-cream or fresh meat, the diet is good. Steve can't recall craving any mis;-' x INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE James Insurance Broker Limited 623-4406 24 King St. E. Bowmanville cMaix 2nd Anniversary Vi Price Special ON ALL PERMS M I ; mu 1 li ■; ill •nihri I \1 li i <i HI; 1 1 18 I) I r wo L oc.it ions to Serve You M SII.Vi.RvSl BOWMANVILLE TELEPHONE 623-6333 MAIN ST ORONO TELEPHONE 983-5333 Towards the end of the year, they'll be in the Caribbean, Caribbean, and by January they will be picking up two friends in Panama as they prepare to start their voyage voyage across the Pacific. They expect to spend about six months ashore in New Zealand where they will have time to visit and sightsee. Then it will be time to head for home. The Doyles plan to either sail through the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, making a complete circumnavigation of the globe, or else they will return return via the Pacific, perhaps arriving in Canada at Vancouver. Steve and Anna Doyle say they are able to take time for a three-year trek through the Pacific because they save their money when they live on shore. They admit that the income they lose during those three years can't really be replaced. replaced. But the value of the trip outweighs this disadvantage. disadvantage. The typical Canadian who heads for work through January's January's snowbanks or March's slush would, no doubt, agree. Soon to be announced is a whole new twist in the field of planned retirement communities; and it's a twist with a multi-million dollar price tag. The Rice Group, associated with well-established Sandy Cove Acres at Stroud near Barrie and Grand Cove Estates at Grand Bend, are well into preliminary development development of ' Wilmot Creek, ' a 200-acre site at Newcastle just east of Bowmanville. The area, where the 35-115 Highway sweeps north from 401, skirts Lake Ontario Ontario with a mile-and-a quarter of unspoiled lake- front. It will contain 860 fully detached homes. 'This is a departure from the past, " states Rice president president Louis A. Rice. "In the early days in this field, retirement retirement projects were built in or close by a resort area, the 12-month vacation concept, concept, but increasingly we have become aware that many of our people generate generate their own activities with fellow residents within the boundaries of our retirement retirement communities. As well, there is a segment that wishes to 'settle in' early, well ahead of actual retirement time. Some of these people spend just the summer months with us, commuting considerable distances from Sandy Cove and Grand Cove to make this possible. Hence, it seemed logical to build closer to a major urban area. Not only would this allow 12-month commuters to continue working but would bring family, friends and grandchildren closer to the 'full-time' retiree. 'Wilmot Creek' is 47 kilometres kilometres from East Metro Toronto. That is about 28 miles - not much as commuters commuters travel these days. We are already getting flickers of interest from folks we suspect are a decade or considerably more away from actual retirement retirement ages." Planning director of the Rice Group is Rod Rice who adds, "With Canada's rapidly rapidly increasing ratio of older people, it is critical, I believe, that we perceive those past 60 as they really are. Medical science has made giant strides and, with more awareness of nutrition, etc., 1983's retired retired individual is far removed removed from the often negative negative prototype image in the minds of the younger. In appearance - and in attitude, attitude, particularly - he or she is frequently indistinguishable indistinguishable from those 10 or 15 years younger. There is an on-going revolution in this regard: does anyone think of swinging Frank Sinatra as a ' senior citizen ' of three years standing? At 'Wilmot Creek,' based on our extensive experience in the other locations, we will have every conceivable installation to give this adult community the lively, frankly youthful atmosphere atmosphere and amenities of a good country club: swimming swimming pool, sauna and whirl pool, dance and b:ix;: x - facilities, even a nine hcie golf course within property. Come to thin;. it, it should be possible to tee off or ' wot a iino' (inci • dentally, in one or Ontario's most celebrated and productive productive fishing holes, 'Wilmot 'Wilmot Creek itself) and barely leave one's patio to do so! We will be using the i(identification i(identification in our publicity of, "Wilmot Creek - A New Beginning By The Lake! ' And it should be precisely that for those who believe, as we have seen at first hand at Rice, that retire- in' e- ranar One- ! tyi tu. rr •. or jf ' , HOME OF THE FUEL ECONOMY CAH. 6R6-602L 1300 Dundas St. E., Whitby w«nirnmnMvrwr~i>cnrt:^ sing foods while sailing. There's enough room to store food to supply four people four months. And when the Doyles reach Panama, two friends will join them in order to help them cross the Pacific. There's a locker containing containing 300 paperback books to help pass the time at sea. Seventy gallons of fresh water is held in storage tanks'.'That may 'not seem like a lot of water, but only three x pints per person per day are used at sea. The rest of the water comes from the ocean itself. Stowed away in various other compartments are life vests, pumps, flares, emergency food supplies, life raft, oilskins, anchors, and most supplies that they can expect to need for the next three years. Navigation, which is Anna's responsibility, is by sextant, using the same time-honored principles employed by sailors for centuries. centuries. Since the hurricane season season is now underway, the couple will be travelling southward through the inland inland waterways, starting at Oswego, N.Y., and moving through the Erie Canal, eventually reaching New York City. "Until the end of October, you still have the hurricane season here," Steve explains. The vessel has its own inboard inboard motor which can give it a speed of about 50 miles per day. Under sail, theship can make 175 miles on a good day. KF# y.w.;. Introductory Spec We developed two new bed styles at the end of August, and to introduce them we are offering a September special. r iîiîâ 1 vu-ni : ,k'1 k One Set of Fitted Shee with the purchase c either one of these new beds. We also manufacture matching Bedroom Furniture to complement yourwaterbed. », 'Hi Quality Workmanship • Quality Construction • Quality Materia Remember... when you buy, buy quality! 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