266 LOG BOOK OF THE HOOKER "ST. PETER" 



September 4, 1742 



Decision Reached at the Consultation on September 4, 1742 



Lieutenant Waxel, Fleet Master Khitrov, and all the lower officers on board on 

 the voyage from Avacha to Okhotsk came to the following decision: 



1. We tried to repair the hooker Si. Peter so that it would not leak as much as it 

 had on the way from Bering Island to Avacha, and when we were at Avacha we had 

 hoped that this had been done. 



2. On September I, after we had [made out a report?] of the activities of our com- 

 pany, based on the original journal and chart, we were ready to go on our way. We 

 went as far as eight miles from the bay but could not make much headway owing 

 to the strong head wind which prevented us from sailing on our course, which was 

 south and between south and west. At the same time our ship sprung a leak as 

 before, forcing us to bail all the time and in the end to turn back to the aforemen- 

 tioned bay. 



3. We knew, from former experiences, that after the middle of this month the 

 strong north winds would begin to blow and that our vessel could not weather them 

 and could never make Okhotsk in time [to escape them?]. We had time to go as far 

 as the mouth of the Bolshaya River and might have done so, but we knew that at 

 the Bolsheretsk Post there were not provisions enough foro ur men. Having 

 taken all these reasons into consideration we decided to return to Avacha Bay. 



Lieutenant Sven Waxel 



Master Sofron Khitrov 



Assistant Navigator Kharlam Yushin 



For the Boatswain Alexei Ivanov 



Boatswain's mate Grigori Trubeshin 



Midshipman Ivan Sint 



