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Private Notes
Nick's promoter cousin takes on the uphill task of turning Ol' Relic into a TV Celebrity with a hair-raising boat stunt that parodies the heart-stopping displays of motorcycle daredevils.
The curse of the Vikings threatens Nick when both police and clergy conspire to prevent him from giving an old Norseman the Viking funeral Nick promised him. A comedy of conflicting values high-lighted by a car chase involving the police, the hearse, and Mcloskey's rattletrap truck.
An old girlfriend of Nick's collapses from a heart attack while on an errand of mercy at a deserted logging site. Nick fights to save her life as medical help battles its way to the rescue.
Relic tricks Nick into an all-out wrestling contest with a gigantic so-called Turk named Abdul. It's Nick's brains against Abdul's brawn in this lighthearted free-for-all.
Jesse retires to the mountains on a spirit fast to seek his true self. Nick comes along for the ride --a bumpy one on a pair of packhorses -- and gets more than he bargained for when a marauding bear leaves Nick and Jesse to face the danger of real starvation.
Hugh is on a supposedly solitary hunting expedition when a bullet zings by his earl The hunter is actually a friend, but so troubled by his determination to prove his manhood that he endangers both their lives.
Hugh, Margaret and Sara are stranded overnight In a haunted house. A stranger who spies on them from the surrounding bush enters their lives with frightening impact, determined to drive them out before they can discover the old house's strange secret.
Relic jumps aboard the government gravy train when the politicians make an ill-advised bid to bureau-cratize beachcombing. Nick takes on the provincial government in his effort to preserve the independence of his way of life.
A half-forgotten war canoe is repaired and made to race again for Jesse's little Seahost band and their old Chief. When the tiny band can't muster a full crew, Nick is 'captured' as a slave and set to work with a paddle.
It's a whale--it's a seal--no by George, it's a genuine sea serpent and old is out to record its existence for science. Relic and Mcloskey are also in hot pursuit of the monster--for profit! What nobody knows is that Nick and the gang from the Reach determine to make the Colonel's dream come true by rigging their own sea.
Against Nick's better judgment, Jesse dynamites a log to dislodge it. He sets in motion a chain of events which results in Nick and Jesse both getting pinned below logs, with no one but little Sara to try and help when a brush fire begins advancing on the two trapped beachcombers.
The Georgia Strait - seventeen long, cold miles of churning ocean. It killed Margaret's mother, father, and grandfather; all her life, it's been waiting for her. Her bid to swim these ferocious waters provides the action in a tense and thrilling drama.
A deadhead is a partially submerged log capable of impaling and sinking unsuspecting boats. Nick and Margaret spot such a log, but are unable to flag it. When the deadhead wrecks Ceece Neville's boat, and poor old Ceece is hospitalized, Margaret conducts her own vendetta on the killer log, with Relic providing unexpected complications.
Nick has not spoken with his father in thirty years. Suddenly, the old man arrives in Gibsons to mend a quarrel that reveals some startling secrets about Nick's war-torn boyhood in Greece, to which the old man now demands that Nick return to resume his disrupted family life.
Jesse falls afoul of a jealous bridegroom, and has to run for his life. Disguised in Molly's clothes, he is hurried by Nick and Hughie to the supposed safety of a lonely forest cabin, which turns out to be the honeymoon hideaway where the lonely bride waits for her rampaging groom!
Mandrake the Magician comes to Gibsons to put on a show, complete with his mysterious Egyptian sarcophagus--which makes people disappear forever into the underworld. When Relic scoffs at the magic coffin, Sara wishes him to disappear, and he does It's up to Mandrake to make him materialize.
Hugh and Nick endeavor to evict Relic and his evil-smelling houseboat infavor of a pair of gorgeous girls and their gorgeous boat. Hugh calls it 'upgrading the marina', but Margaret calls it downright immoral, and the fun begins when she enlists her young art class to 'redecorate' the houseboat - with eye-popping results!
Margaret is in full rebellion against the uselessness of learning French. A chance meeting with a young sailor provides her with a frightening lesson in the usefulness of a second language when Nick must perform emergency surgery aboard Persephone to try to save the dying sailor's life, and noone understand him to learn what is the matter.
An old grudge harbored by an emblttered Indian woman threatens to remove little Sara and destroy the happiness of the family at Molly's Reach
