Page 12, The Harald, Tuesday, January a7, 1981

Looking back at

While theoties and tales
abounded, noone ever
knew. what: made the
Bluenose so fast,

Aquirk in construction, a
late change in design and
the positioning of her spars
were matters of
speculation. And one of the
men who shaped the

LUNENBURG, .
N.S. (CP) -— For
many Canadians, the
final indignity had
already been done
when they mourned
the death of the
Bluenose 35 years
ago on Jan, 29, 1946.

Canadh was
struggling in the
Depression and later
at war while the
black-hulled
schooner, its
illustrious racing
career still growing,
was beset by
financial troubles.

The Biluenose
hailed from an era
when trim lines and
taut sails were for
the speed of cam-
merce more than the
stuff of competition.
But Canadiana ef-
fectively shunned
her when she and
other fishing
schooners of the day
could no longer earn
their keep.

The Bluenose

began as one of more
than 100 saltbankers
in the Lunenburg
fishing fleet and
excelled at ber trade
before. times
changed, bringing
new ways ta reap the
Grand Banks harvest
of cod she had fished
after first breaking
water on March 26,
1921. —-
Depicted since 1937
on the Canadian
dime, the Bluencse
came to be known as
the queen of ,the
North Atlantic
fishing fleet.

But it was her
racing prowess that
made her -— and
keeps her — a
household word on
even Jandlubbera’
lips, -and anchors
Nova Scotia's most
famous’ ‘piece of
nautical history’ in
the 20th century.

The most
prominent race of
the time, the
America’s Cup, was
dismissed with scorn
by Atlantic feet
skippers asa blue-
blood meeting of
yachts built without
a fish in mind.

So the captains of
Lunenburg and
Gloucester, Mags.,
jumped. when
William H. Dennis,.
owner of the Halifax
Herald, ‘offered an
international racing
prize for. working
schooners manned
by bona-f ide
fishermen.

The American

. schooner Esperanto
easily outsailed
Canada's entry,
Delawana, in the 1920
contest. That
humiliating defeat
was Canada’s last,

The late W. J.
Rowe of Halifax was
commissioned to
design a veesel for
speed and agility,
able to master the
whims of the tur-
bulent North Atlantic
for profit and racing
superiority.

For $35,000 —
$10,000 more than the
average schooner
cost — Smith and
Rhuland turned out °
the vessel that
claimed and never
relinquished the
Her skipper was
Angus Walters, a
scrappy sallor whose
devotion to his
career-long charge
made even mere
painful the seme of
“national = shame”
described by a
tewapaper editorial |
when the Bluenose
was relegated to the
role of workhorse,
eventually falling
victirn to the claws af
a Haitian reef on
Jan. 2, 1046.

F

Walters, who died in 1968
at age 87, lived to sail on
the maiden voyage of
Bluenose 11, launched in
1963 from the Smith and
Rhuland yard while there
were still Lunenburg ship-
wrights who knew the old
ways firat-hand.

The original 44-metre

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spruce and birch, topped
by two masts of Oregon
pine. She won four in-
ternational series without a
defeat, taking nine in-
dividual heats and losing

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particularly heavy frost:
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“Now | think. It might
have set her beams,'" sald
the old shipwright.. “Set.
‘am as like’no man could:

Six months after “her

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The: Bluenose’ suffered
her first loss in 1922 when
she dropped the opening
race off Gloucester to the
Heary Ford, but ‘the beat
the American challenger in

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history of the races.

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~ Wallers refused lonsiept | “for eight ye ‘years. f.
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home,’ ‘Ang’ the. Columbia's‘.
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declared no contest andthe = Thebaud,. . .
races were not held again The. ‘Thebaud and

"Pine, unwilling :to- take

‘for the Sir Thomas: Lipton -

1933. The Lunenburg sal-

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Bluenoee were rivals in the
final two-.international -
series, held-in 1991 and

--realities — economies, the.”

Second World War. And
changing technology..:, .:

Walters, . part owner -of |
the: Bhienose,” kept her off”
the auction. ‘block with

$7,000 of his own money in

the late 1990s
‘But the feverish sittesition

paid ‘the schooners id their.

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and the Thebatd; het
greatest, challenger,

*- foundered. off Haiti,

not fat from where
_ the wreck of. the
_Bluenose ‘atill - ‘rests.
In. younger - days
ehe'was battered by
what Walters: called

"a “grandfather sea’:

while. anchored, off”
Nova Scotia's. Sable
‘Island in 1926, - :

For four. days she-
wes Hit by a fierce
storm, owhile.

grounded . on, the ‘~

rocks ‘of Newfoun-
Placentia
‘Bay. ; And * after
representing Canada
. at Great: Britain's’
silver. jubilee

celebration. of the

- pedgn of Ring George
Vin 1935," ahe was
” inangled * ‘on: “the
.‘tehurn voyage aeross
“the Atlantie 8"...

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(survive, the stocms,
a “quarter:

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years~ Valter; het

~ Iamented fol from

grace, it was the sea
that ultimately |
* elaimned, hers: ,

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