From Free Flight 1978 vol #6 page 8 (Nov/Dec) Club News Bluenose Soaring got off to a slow start in '78. Delay in getting the materials on time resulted in the Ka-7 wing recover taking three weeks longer than planned. We replaced the Ford 302 in the winch with a 351, and it now has adequate power; Ford's automatic is not the smoothest however, a GM 454 engine with GM's Turbo- hydramatic would be a far better combination The Geherlin design drum proved to be woefully inadequate, so BSC member Tom Foote designed a beauty. It is this writer's opinion that the Geherlin winch is in serious need of re-design. We regret to report an accident in which our leased Blanik suffered damage as a result of heavy landing following a power failure in the winch. Following a quiet June, the skies got busy and produced the best heights so far; on three separate days climbs to 7500` ASL were made, with Ralph Olive claiming the club record at 7590'. Our flying week saw Pat Redgrave going solo and others are waiting in the wings, or is it "on the wings." So far we have flown 360 flights and should reach our Treasurer's objective of 600. We have made real improvements in flight turnaround time and we hope to do better with the purchase of an old half-ton for hauling cable and a flat-bed truck to make the winch mobile. The sea breeze front at Stanley has been working well the last few months. Generally it moves inland of us in late July and early August leaving us with a late developing day for a period of a few weeks. But Saturday, August 12th, there it was, right over the airport allowing "climbing straight ahead" from 3,000 to 6,000 at 400 fpm at 60 kts. It seems a sin to open the brakes on the Ka-7 at 7000' just because "it's time gentlemen, please", particularly when the winter work so improved the penetration; so we are in the market for another machine. Also if anyone has any information on where to obtain good winch cable, we would appreciate it.