TAKE POWER SQUADRON COURSE
Before Your Start,
Be Sure That
You're Boat Smart!
Did you know that more than 80
percent of all boating fatalities in
volve persons who were not wear
ing their personal flotation dcvices
(PFDs), otherwise known as life
preservers?
Yet it is a tragic fact that 85 per
cent of those victims had PFDs
aboard their boats!
Do you feel you have the "right
of way" when a boat approaching
ofT your port (left) side appears to
be on a collision course?
Don't count on it! That boat is
supposed to yield to you. But you
should never assume it will do so.
Being in the right?according to
the rules of the road?won't be
much comfort when your boat is
headed for the bottom.
There's nothing like sipping an
ice cold beer while piloting your
boat up the waterway on a hot sum
mer day, right?
WRONG! The laws governing
boating while impaired by alcohol
arc similar to those against drunk
driving on the highway and are en
forced by N.C. Wildlife officers
and the U.S. Coast Guard.
So bring a cooler on your boat.
But include some soft drinks for the
driver. As captain, you are respon
SURFBOARDS + CLOTHING + ACCESSORIES
UNLIMITED
(Shown, Ocean Isle's Jeff Folgo, doing a front-side floater.)
On The Causeway, Behind Sloane Realty
Ocean Isle Beach
579
siblc.
In other words, be boat smart and
lake a boating course like the ones
offered by the Shallottc River Pow
er Squadron.
Boating Safety Week, scheduled
for Jun 6-12 by the Power Squad
ron, will introduce a year-long me
dia campaign to give boaters more
information about their sport.
Lcam about boating safety, navi
gation, the rules of the road, radio
operation, foul weather precautions,
boat trailering, knot tying and other
naulical skills.
Classes, educational programs,
demonstrations and other events arc
regularly scheduled by the power
squadron. So be boat smart and get
in touch by calling Lt. Bob Bach at
919-579-0466 or the national orga
nization Boat U.S. at 1-800-336
BOAT.
The U.S. Power Squadron is a
non-governmental, private mem
bership organization, self-support
ing in its efforts to enhance boating
safety through education.
See Fort Fisher With
A Uniformed Soldier
This summer, how about sav
ing lime for a tour of Fori
Fisher with a Union or
Confederate soldier in uniform?
From June 1 until Aug. 20, sev
eral times daily, staff members in
period dress will guide visitors
around the Civil War fort and state
historic site, the fortification that
kept the port of Wilmington open to
the blockade runners supplying
Confederate armies until the last
few months of the war.
After the largest-ever naval bom
bardment to that time, the fort fell
in January 1865.
The Mary Holloway Memorial
Seasonal Interpreter Program offers
half-hour tours Wednesdays
through Saturdays at 9:30 and 11
a.m., and 1:30 and 3 p.m. Sunday
tours will be at 1:30 and 3 p.m. on
ly
Guides in modem clothes will
give tours at the same times on
Mondays and Tuesdays.
The tour trail, shaded by snarled
live oaks, snakes in front of the
earthworks. Tour guests will see the
remaining earthworks with gun em
placements. Visitors can walk onto
the restored Shepherd's battery to
see the same view of the Cape Fear
River the Confederate defenders
had as they held off the fierce
Union bombardment.
A visitor center museum features
a slide program on the fort's history
SOUTH PORT-FORT
FISHER FERRY
SUMMER SCHEDULE
Leaves Soulhport Leaves Ft, Fisher
8:00 AM 8:50 AM
8:50 AM 9:40 AM
9:40 AM 10:30 AM
10:30 AM 11:20 AM
11:20 AM 12:10 PM
12:10 PM 1:00 PM
1:00 PM 1:50 PM
1:50 PM 2:40 PM
2:40 PM 3:30 PM
3:30 PM 4:20 PM
4:20 PM 5:10 PM
5:10 PM ..6:00 PM
6:00 PM 6:50 PM
and artifacts from the sunken
blockade runners.
Thousands of visitors have en
joyed these special guided tours
over the years, according to Lei and
Smith, assistant manager. The pro
gram is named in memory of the
late Mary Holloway, longtime em
ployee at Fort Fisher.
?Admission is free. For details,
call the site in Kure Beach at 919
458-5538.
Fort Fisher State Historic Site, an
agency of the Department of Cul
tural Resources, is best reached
from the South Brunswick Islands
via the Southport-Fort Fisher ferry.
Take U.S. 17 north to N.C. 211.
Signs on N.C. 211 will direct you
to the ferry landing.
The Sand Crab Is...
BY TAMARA SOLOMON
The sand crab is an interesting creature, who scurries about the livelong
day.
He never takes a moment to rest and he never stops to play.
Even if he were to take a break and join his friends for a liulc toddy,
He would probably return home to find it covered by a large, roasting
human body.
Vacationing pets want to chase him around and kids want to put him in
a pail.
During the summer months on the the beach, there is no place safe for
him to dwell.
But after a while when the tourists leave and return to their hectic
lifestyle,
The sand crab looks at his deserted beach, leans back and just simply
smiles.
Tamara Solomon is a school teacher in Kannapolis. Her family has
been visiting Ocean Isle Beach for over 20 years.