TY - SER AU - Cope,Gordon TI - Sailing stormy seas: Canada ; Oil and Gas PY - 2009/// CY - PB - N2 - Richard Branson, international businessman and adventurer, recently had to abandon an attempt to set the cross-Atlantic sailing record after his 100-ft yacht was wrecked by a monster wave. The Canadian oilpatch should be so fortunate -The entire sector is floundering amid a series of equally crushing financial, environmental and political tsunamis ER -