Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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ashore ODAY I SIGNED ON MY FIRST SHIP in six months. As we back into mid-stream, I watch the bright shore line of Montreal fall astern, and mutter At last, I'm away . Desperation alone made me ship on this unseaworthy tramp with her rusted hull and unkempt deck Work. The whole ship is in need of repair, from topping lifts to wash-ports. But at sea, fighting wind and weather, I'll feel safer and more confident on her, than I ever did these last six months ashore. We sailed on my watch, and having drawn bow look-out for the first trick, I turned to at eight bells. After hauling the mooring lines inboard, I settled down to the lookout 's usual duties. There is still lots of ice in the river, be- sides the usual conglomeration of tugs and lighters found in any harbour. So I am using the fog bell frequently to help the mate and pilot get the ship under way and out to open water. The river traffic is thinning out and I'm getting cold. I'll have to run aft to the mess and borrow a reefer. I had a good one of my own last trip, but that, along with a lot of other gear, went to the hock shops. Looking back at the cityls glow, fast disappearing, I remember last fall . . . . It was warm then and Montreal was our first. Canadian port in nine months. Being home again makes men do strange things, they throw cares to the wind, not realizing the prosperity they are enjoying. Nine months is a long time and a. lot of money saved. Why not spend a couple of months ashore? You can afford it , thought I. So I paid off with my fifteen hundred bucks, said so-long to my mates, and moved into the expensive type of hotel. Costly night-clubbing with equally expensive women kept me riding high, and life went along at a cracking pace for a couple of months-nothing like this shore life! I thought. One day at the bank I was rather shocked to find that there were only about two hundred dollars left in my account.. This meant I'd be looking for a ship very soon. Montreal closes to shipping in the winter and the last freighters had cleared a month ago. It was January and the port doesn't open until late March. I eouldn't stay here, so I closed the account. and left. the bank with the remains of my pay-off. Saying good-bye to the shack-up I checked out of the hotel, and stacked my gear in the bus depot. I then amblefl down to the waterfront, paying my way to some of the luckier panhandlers as I went. Joe Beef 's Tavern is a favourite haunt of mine and most seamen go there when ashore, so I stopped in to contemplate my next move, over a few beers. There were only two choices-East coast or NVest? St. -Iohn's has good ship- ping all year but most are just Atlantic crossings to 'U.K.' and the continent, and in the winter I can think of fairer climates than the Atlantic, especially if you're in the deck department. So that left Vancouverg its shipping is never any good but there are lots of foreign ships that sail short-handed out Twenty-thrcc

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