SCHOONER CHANCE 69 



Position Start for home 

 Thursday, September 2nd <| Weather Clear 



Wind Light northerly to calm 



WITH just a breath of air and a strong following tide we 

 drifted out among the islands. By breakfast time we were 

 rounding the Cape and heading south. The roll slatted what little 

 was left of the northeaster out of our sails but we slipped along 

 somehow and got to Eclipse about ten o'clock. Just before lunch, 

 while passing the SE point Anlakivik Island, we got in mighty 

 shoal water (3^^ fathoms). The swell was very heavy and it is a 

 wonder that it did not drop us onto the bottom. While trying to run 

 across to Ryan's Bay, we were at last left without steerage way. I 

 suggested to Bob to try the engine and with what little gas must 

 have settled into the pipe to work in close to the land where there 

 might be some air. Bob started the engine and it ran for six full 

 hours. Somehow gas had gotten into the lower port tank. I think 

 that it must have come in slowly from the full tank and since the 

 valve was almost closed, was not used as fast as the gas in the open 

 tank. By this bit of luck we reached White Bear Cape just after dark. 

 The run down the shore was most exciting. It being clear, the land 

 looked entirely different from when we came up. There being more 

 swell we saw many more breaking patches. We came across Seven 

 Island Bay by a much more direct route than the fishermen use and 

 as we never got less than 12 fathoms I imagine it is a perfectly safe 

 one. 



After dark we half drifted and half sailed along the coast and 

 somehow or other were off Blow-me-down Mountain in the 

 morning. Without the gas we would have taken a whole other day 

 to get clear of the shoals and ledges north of White Bear Cape. 



