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During the night, while dodging a piece of ice, Terry had to jibe 

 quickly and the "Liverpool head" took a dive overboard. The tin- 

 smith department (John and Terry) immediately had a conference 

 and found they had plenty of extra galvanized iron to make a new 

 one. 



i Position Hove to off shore 

 Wednesday, August 4th < Weather Stormy 



I Wind tJery strong northeast 



RIGHT after breakfast we took aboard the skiff over the leeward 

 . rail. I had left it towing behind with the idea that we would 

 want it to go ashore at Cape Makkovick. It was a miserable, wet, 

 rainy morning and it seemed strange to be running away from home 

 •with an easterly right behind us. About ten some islands showed up 

 through the mist and after some calculations I finally identified 

 them as Negro Island and Pyramid Island. As the log only read 98 

 miles this again proved my theory that there is little current in 

 shore. Of course, the wind was against the current but the log 

 reading was just about right and I had rather planned on ten 

 miles of tide at least during the night. The wind soon hauled 

 more abeam and got a bit light. As the barometer was way down 

 and still falling fast I knew we were in for a blow and during the 

 afternoon we merely worked off shore as much as possible. The 

 first squall struck about five and it was a beauty. I found myself 

 standing knee deep in water near the mainmast yelling for some- 

 body to come on deck. Johnny was at the wheel and as we had 

 stern-way on at the time there was nothing to do but take the 

 weight of the wind right abeam. The rain came down in torrents 

 and the sail just would not come off. The top-sail sheet had two 

 foul turns in it and Mac finally had to go aloft and cut it. The skiff 

 began to sail around the deck and we had a good hour's fight before 

 everything was shipshape. When everything was through I sent a 



