[Public-List] Smells of yacht racing...

[Greg Hounsell]

Didn't grow up around there, but it does remind me of being a teen in
Waterloo and working downtown in the summer. Some days the smells from
Molsons and Seagram's was almost overpowering!

Greg
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On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 1:47 PM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Hello gang -
>
> Just saw a news headline referring to the City of Toronto’s renewed
> efforts to eliminate odours from the Ashbridges Bay sewage treatment plant
> on the eastern side of Toronto’s waterfront.  That brought back a funny
> memory…
>
> When I was a boy being taken sailing and racing, I recall identifying
> particular odours with the various clubs along the waterfront.
>
> To the east was Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club (to us in Canada the real and
> much older ABYC).   Because of the sewage treatment plant, it had that
> smell.   A mile or so offshore was a rustic and battered ancient wooden
> spar buoy which of course we called ’The Poop Stick’ because it marked the
> outflow from the plant, which was sometimes visible.
>
> Central and on the Toronto Isands, was Queen City YC, Royal Canadian YC
> and Island YC.  They tended to smell like city smog… that sulfuric-exhaust
> stink that was sometimes visual in those days when air pollution was so
> much worse.
>
> To the west was National Yacht Club, by Toronto Harbour’s Western Gap.  It
> sometimes stank of hops from the enormous Molsens brewery across Lakeshore
> Blvd from the club.
>
> Anyone else from around here remember those smells?
>
>
> Gordon Laco
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