VANCOUVER — When Sarah Nurse first stepped onto the Aquabus dock at Vancouver’s Granville Island, she was a little apprehensive.

The Hamilton hockey player was unaccustomed to being just a few feet away from ocean waters, with no rails or safety barriers in sight.

But it didn’t take long for the best-known player on the roster of Vancouver’s new Professional Women’s Hockey League team to find her footing.

Within half an hour, Canada’s most valuable player in the 2022 Olympic women’s hockey tournament in Beijing had her hands on the vessel’s wheel — steering the rainbow-hued commuter ferry through the busy waters of False Creek during a Friday sightseeing tour ahead of a holiday weekend.

Nurse has never been shy about navigating uncharted waters.

In 2023, she became the first female pl

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