UBC: Hey Kim, how long have you been sailing for?
Kim: 30 years…

UBC: How long have you been in the club for?
Kim: I was in the club for two years a few years ago. Until this year, I haven’t been a member for quite sometime because I moved to the Yukon and there hasn’t been any room for non-students since I’ve been back. I’ve had to find other ways to get my fix.

UBC: What were you up to in the Yukon?
Kim: I was doing community economic development work, living in a cabin, crafting, hiking, skiing...but not sailing.

UBC: Do you have any special memories of sailing as a kid?
Kim: I remember being towed in a dinghy through Desolation Sound with my sister and a bag of chips behind my parent’s sailboat…they needed space.

UBC: I understand you were on the water during the 42nd Annual Southern Straights Yacht Race this year in winds so strong one crew was forced to abandon ship and two other boats had their masts broken. What was that like?
Kim: I was trimming on one of the 10 boats that made it across to Nanaimo of 60 that started the race. We got to Gabriola, breeched, had to cut some seriously tangled jib sheets and then responded to a mayday of one of the demasted boats. It was like surfing in a hampster ball in a washing machine...