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‘Peninsula At Work

Don Winfield is the captain
of the Brentwood-Mill Bay
ferry this week.

This week, because he’s a
taking the — place of
vacationing regular captian
David McGarva. He can
usually be found, not at the
helm, but below taking fares,
talking to passengers,
supervising loading and
unloading, or doing the books
in his below decks office.

He has been the mate of one

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THE REVIEW

Don Weniteld, Ferry Skipper

of two crews operating the
small ferry since 1970.

He began his ferry career
with Canadian Pacific,
starting in 1948 as a seaman on
the night ferry between
Vancouver and Victoria, the
Princess Elizabeth.

A seaman in the’ ferry
service does everything, he
recalled, including scrubbing,
painting and handling freight.

Winfield then moved ashore,
working as a freight handler,

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still for CP. He was only:
ashore for four years,
however, before he returned
to the ferry service.

He was a seaman again in
1962, this time for B.C.
Ferries, aboard Kolika, a
former Black Ball boat on the
Swartz Bay-Tsawassen run.

In 1970, he returned to
school for his master’s cer-
tificate and began as mate on
the Brentwood ferry.

A spell in the wheelhouse is
a “nice break’’, he said, but
there isn’t any job on the ferry
he doesn’t like.

“I don’t even really think of
this as a job, I like it so well,”
he says. ‘I’ve always liked the
sea and liked to be near it. In
heavy weather it’s a bit of a
challenge, especially docking

Hon the Mill Bay side. If you

don’t get it exactly right the
first time when there’s a still
North East wind, you have to
head out and try again or else
dock it box first and let all the
cars back off.”’

The three-and-a-half mile
run cuts 38 miles of driving
over the Malahat off a trip to
Victoria for  up-Island
residents. Many people use
the ferry to commute to work
in both directions. ;

Winfield said it is the
commuters he worries about
when fog stalls the ferry, a
frequent occurrence on winter
mornings.

There’s no need for fog to
ever stop the service, he says.
Winfield has been pressing the
ferry authority to install a
small radar outfit for yours.

The cost would be less than
$3000, he said, which would be

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made up quickly be the
revenue generated by better
service. More people would
use the ferry to commute to
work if they could be sure it
would be on schedule, he said.

Winfield said the Brentwood
ferry is the only one in the B.C.
fleet without radar. He said he
thought the reason the service
was not given a high priority
by the government is that the
travellers have an alternative
— the Malahat highway.

The problem with this
reasoning, he said, is that the
service is cut off when it is
most needed. When the fog is
heavy enough to stall the
feerry, it is heavy enough to
make driving on the Malahat
dangerous.

The little ferry doesn’t make
money, as it is very
economical to run, and well
used, particularly in summer.
It did better when it had
longer hours. It used to
operate two extra runs Sunday

night and run on the hour
instead of making the round
trip in an hour and_ ten
minutes.

This last week there were
four overloads, as up Island
people came down to attend
the racing at Sandown.

Roger, Winfield’s 13-year- :

old son, was along for the ride.
He’s the youngest of five
children, and the only one,
Winfield says, who shares his
father’s affinity for the sea
and boats.

The Winfields have made
their home in Brentwood since

he started with the Brentwood
run.

There are two full crews on
the ferry, working 12 hour

_shifts four days on, four off.

The long days wouldn’t suit
everyone, but Winfield says he
doesn’t mind the long hours
because it means four full
days to himself when he’s not
working.

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Residents in the B.C. and
Yukon Postal District were
today urged to submit their
Christmas card and parcel
lists for coding before
November 5, either to their
local postmasters or send
them to their nearest postal
coding unit.

Code units are operated in
Vancouver and Victoria.
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which has the capability of
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Christmas mailings if the mail
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To facilitate the mechanized
handling of mail, customers
will be permitted this year to
seal their Christmas cards,
mailed for delivery in Canada,
even if paid at the third class
or six cent rate.

However, it should be noted
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will be subject to postal in-
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mail, such as priority of
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Cards posted at the first
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S.T.A.G.

Sidney Teen Acitivity Group
will hold a skating party on
October 24, Those interested
are asked to meet at Sanscha
Hall at 5:45 p.m, For further
information, call 656-2135,

- proud father Don bring the Brent-
wood ferry home from another
successful trip across Saanich Inlet.
Roger, youngest of five Winfield

Wednesday, October 22, 1975

ROGER WINFIELD, 13, helps children, also had reason to be
- proud: his father was acting as
skipper of the craft while the regular

captain is on holiday.

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