SCHOONER CHANCE 57 



The Hog's Back is a long shoal taking off from White Bear Cape 

 and running in a North North Easterly direction. From the mast- 

 head the rocks seemed to extend only for ten miles. Not knowing 

 what better to do, we ran outside the islands and cut through the 

 Hog's Back close to shore. Most of our soundings were about 8 or 9 

 fathoms. Somehow this long shoal was all cut off at the same 

 height. As the Pilot Book says, "It is an interesting problem how 

 these rocks were cut off," we cursed all afternoon because the silly 

 book did not say whether to sail inside or outside the islands or in- 

 side or outside the shoal. 



After lunch fog set in from the NE and strangely enough it never 

 quite settled down to the water but hung so we could just see a 

 narrow band of shore under it. About four we came to a place which 

 seemed like the "mouth of a fjord with a notable sandy beach" and 

 concluded it must be Ryan's Bay. The water shoaled rapidly and as 

 it breezed up we ran in under power. No gap in the bar could be 

 found and the fjord seemed to hold a lake. Bob and John went ashore 

 in the "Evinrude" but could find no anchorage. As the barometer 

 was falling fast and as it was rainy and misty with a SE wind no- 

 body was much pleased with the prospects for the night. We headed 

 out and decided to have a look around one more headland. It was 

 soon evident because of a lifting of the fog that we had blundered 

 into the "Region of the Iron Strand." Ryan's Bay has no vestige of a 

 sand beach. We found the anchorage easily. 



Position At head of Bean's Bdy 

 Monday, August z^rd ^ Weather Cloudy with mist 



Wind Light northerly 



IT was blowing hard right out of the fjord when we awoke, so to 

 save gas I decided to wait a while before going on. We are an- 

 chored between a large three-master from St. John's and a very nice 



