78 THE LOG OF THE 



run. Sad to say it soon shifted back to W and we could hardly lay 

 our course. Leeway caused by our heavy pitching soon had us way 

 in shore. We passed Ferolle Point but daylight found us much too 

 close to the islands in St. John's Bay. Again we had to tack offshore. 

 By breakfast time we were off a low, unattractive island called Flat 

 Island. 



I had expected that we would have trouble driving her to wind- 

 ward in such a breeze and had been prepared to run back through the 

 Straits. We were, therefore, well satisfied with the night's work 

 although it was only about 25 miles. 



Position Anchor at Hawh!s Harbor 

 Saturday, September 11th <J Weather Clear 



Wind Fresh westerly 



OUR day's sail was very miserable indeed, yet it was such a fight 

 from start to finish that we were rather proud of it when it was 

 done. All morning we beat up towards Point Rich and all afternoon 

 we beat back and forth trying to weather the shoals which lay off its 

 end. The wind was WSW and good and strong. There was also a 

 strong current against us. About eleven we took in the foresail and 

 she made better weather of it, especially after we started the main- 

 sheet. It was a great sight to see her stick her nose into one and the 

 water would come rushing aft. First it would strike the water-butts 

 and be thrown up in the air, then it would rush along the cabin 

 house, half landing in the dory and the other half rushing under the 

 skiff only to reappear aft much diminished by the excellent work of 

 the scuppers. This continual sticking her nose into the seas not only 

 slowed us up but the peak got very wet owing to water leaking 

 down the forward hatch. Our main difficulty lay in the fact that the 

 seas were coming from the SW while the wind was WSW. One 



