BgIRD<'S EYE VIEW Is Thot AWae?? Last week on the Trent Canal 1 thougit imy biggest p'roblenî would be rocks, hiding in the nîurky water and waiting to rip the hiuil of the boat open, running mie agrouind. There were three otiier major things 1 hadn't even thouglît about worrying over the first was ramn.. It got so bad that for a while I thought we were going to do the 40 days and 40 nights thing over again. When you buy a boat and charge it to the Free Press expense accounit you can't go for ail the extras so consequently the steering wheel was outside of the cabin. 0 That means you have to steer the fool thing wvhi1e standing out in the ramn. l'n sure some smnarty must have said, "Hey look at that guy, he doesn't have enough sense to corne in out of the rami!" The only good things I can say about steering in the rami s that it solves your dandrufi problem and the ram calins the water. The theories about boats out in the open during ighit- ning storms are fast and furious, froin nothing wvill happen to your chances of getting hit are extremely high. l'mi told lightnîng wiII strike the highiest point and 1 figure that on a fiat lake it's got to be mie sîeering the boat, and in steel hiuit I don't stand a liull of a chance. The only way .r to prove the theory xvas to get bit and that dedicated a reporter l'niflot. So I did the next best thing, 1 beat it to shore and watched some other guys out there ffirting y? with death. Free Press reporters are not knoxvn for their courage above and beyond and s0 on. 1 did risk drowning however to prove that a 45 foot cruiser can easily swamp a measly 22 foot boa t. Just north of Lovesick Lock a 45 footer went by like he owned the place and I suspected by the awkward wvay she vas moving through the water that the big boat mnighit leave a nasty wake. A wake is a polite word for a small tidal wave and at the last minute that's what I saw heading for the bow of my boa t. 1 don't have to tell you everything got wet. So wet that the Duchess - who stili hasn't forgiven me for giving lier a bath despite the fact that cats hate water - decided we were sinking and deçided to leap overboard and walk on the water to shore. 1 guess to fier the river looked like a big shiny floor but 1 had a feeling she was in for a surprise when she tried to walk on it so 1 jumped overboard fully clothed to save her. This lcft the boat chugging along by itself with a very bewildered lady on board trying to figure out where the heck everybody disappeared to and how the heck to run the boa t. A following boat picked up the Duchess and nie and the srnarty said, "Why did you jump in after the cat -- hey< can al swirn you know!" Smart aleck, so what did lie know - why didn't he tell me that earlier? The Duchess xvas so mad she xvould have crawled up) on a furnace pipe for a year had there been one handy but instead she settled for hiding right up as far as she cotild get in the bow and 1 busied myseif with laking, ail the papers out of my wvallet and trying to dry them out. 'l'li whole unpleasant inciden t was brouglh to rmemiory again two days later in Peterborough when 1 handed ai very wet bill to a cashier in a store and she said, "Boy, i t iust be WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1974, PAGE 5 Isaac t ilms care Dinio deLaurentiis' "'Three Toughi Guys"ad saac Movemeni 4Cn Hayes Xmericcan International's "Truck Turner", to be releasçd f 1 . 1 %" A 1." 1 1-'. AA eI- - - - - --1 ý - i Cornes to O'1keefe IAAC HAYES, who will appeur at O'Keefe Centre Aug. 13 - 17, is an entertainer whose creative potential appears alrnost unlîmnited.ý Raised ini poverty in Tennessee, lie lias 1parlayed bis boindless talent into a nîultifaceted career as a si nge r-comnpose r-record producer-actor. Ho is pcrlîaps best known for lus Ihihgly original "Themne Froni Sliaf'C", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1I972. He also received an Oscar nonmia- tion for Best Score, as welI as being honored with a Grarn- my, a. Golden Globe Award, the top BMI Award, the NAACP Imiage Award, and the AIi-Amnerican Press Associ- ation Award. Now Isaac lias bccorne an actor as well. His first two iuuuuiy on i-ug. i(,o. ti aduition nie composeci the scores for both 1fil1s. A considerable part of Isaac's encrgics and inicome is being channelcd into hunaiîtarian projeets. Through the Isaac H-ayes Foundation, lic has financed govcrnment- SUbsidized hiousing for low-inicomne Black families ini St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. This dcvelopment is a proto- type for othiers planned for the southiern United States, particularly a home for the elderly. THE ISAAC HAYES MOVEMENT wilI play 6, perform- ances at O'Keefe Centre - one eachi night Tuesday through Thiursday at 8:30 p.m., two on Friday and Saturday at 6:00 and 9:.00 p.m. FREE PRESS ADS PAY CAL L 668-6111 swatter before setting out. Now if 1I could only justify putting a Cessna 180 on the expense account .. 104 harwood, Ajax Plaza, Ajax, Ontario 942-6611 ,-'- I 238 KING STREET MIDLAND