title: Shelter From The Storm: A Sailor's Life of Havens, High Seas, and Discover
author:  June Cameron 
description: Spending her childhood along the B.C. coast helped prepare writer/artist June Cameron to becomethe first woman to race her own boat in all the major B.C. sailing races. She went on to cruise the B.C.shoreline, often alone, sending articles regularly to be published in Pacific Yachting magazine aswell as painting many boat portraits. June holds a masters degree from the University of British Columbia in special needs communication.
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  Dedication
  
  
  In memory of Allan Glenn (aka WinAce)
  
  
  1984–2005
  
  
  And for Kathy France, who makes sure I eat well.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Futile—the Winds—
  
  
  To a Heart in port—
  
  
  Done with the Compass—
  
  
  Done with the Chart!
  
  
  —Emily Dickinson, “Wild Nights”
  
  
  
  
  
  I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
  
  
  And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
  
  
  —John Masefield, “Sea-Fever”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  _Seawatch_
  
  
  For the first time in Darok Juell’s command, the warship _Daystrider_ waited
  idle in harbor on a woman’s account.
  
  
  _Maybe she’s changed her mind,_ Darok thought. _Or drowned._
  
  
  The ship’s bell clanged the eleventh hour, and the later it grew, the easier
  it was to imagine the woman never appearing, so he could send a regretful
  message to Admiralty headquarters and set sail at all speed. His orders were
  to leave Sweet Harbor before sunset.
  
  
  He couldn’t send a crewman ashore to look for her, because he didn’t know her
  name. Four days bef