Open this photo in gallery: Author Peter C. Newman sits in his sailboat 'Grace Note', where he did much of his writing.Peter Power/The Globe and Mail I first met Peter C. Newman more than three decades ago when he invited me to lunch on board his wooden pilothouse schooner docked at Coal Harbour’s Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. I was surprised to receive the invitation but went along, not knowing what to expect. Lunch was a jar of oysters of dodgy provenance with some rye bread, my first introduction to Peter’s complete indifference to food. He explained that he’d read my...