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easterly gales, is situated northeastward, between 1 and 2 miles from 

 Green Island lighthouse, and has 22 feet least water over it. 



Brandies shoal, which generally breaks, has three heads with 4 

 feet least water; it is 1,300 yards long, northward and southward, and 

 about ^ mile wide. The channel between the southern end of the 

 shoal and Green island is 350 yards wide. 



Anchorag-es. — Northeast arm of Catalina harbor affords anchor- 

 age for vessels drawing up to 9 feet of water, in a basin 400 yards 

 across with a depth of 2 fathoms of water, mud bottom. 



Southwest arm is f mile long and ^ mile wide at the entrance, nar- 

 rowing gi'adually to the head, from which shoal water extends 600 

 3^ards ; it affords anchorage in 4 fathoms of water, mud bottom. 



Large vessels anchor off the mouth of this arm in 5 fathoms of 

 water, mud bottom, with the eastern entrance point of Northeast arm 

 open northward of Manuel islet, and bearing 3° to clear Lowe rock. 

 A swell sets into the harbor and up Southwest arm after heavy gales, 

 but it is not sufficient to endanger vessels. 



Pilots. — The fishermen are trustworthy pilots, and are nearW 

 always to be found near the harbor in daj^time. 



Directions. — As shoals extend eastward 8^ miles from Catalina 

 harbor, and most of them break after heaA^' easterly gales, approach 

 to the harbor is then difficult. To enter Catalina harbor between the 

 southern end of Brandies shoal and Green island, after clearing the 

 outer shoals, steer in with Burnt point in line with the Episcopal 

 church on the western shore of Northeast arm, bearing 290°, until 

 Green Island lighthouse bears 239° ; then steer about 307°, until Burnt 

 point bears about 262° ; then round the point at the distance of about 

 200 yards to pass southward of Charlton rock, and bring the Wes- 

 leyan chapel (situated on the slope of the hill which rises over Cour- 

 age point) a little more than its own breadth open southward of the 

 house on the rising ground behind it, bearing 264°, which mark leads 

 in mid-channel between Lowe rock and the rock lying southward of 

 Goodland point. 



To enter the harbor northward of Brandies shoal, bring a square 

 white house situated about 300 yards southwest ward of the Homan 

 Catholic church, a low white building with a red roof on the north- 

 western shore of Southwest arm (which, however, is not readily 

 distinguished, as it is almost hidden by houses) , in line with Good- 

 land point, bearing about 238°. Keep this mark on until South 

 head is shut in with Green Island lighthouse, bearing 186°, then steer 

 toward Burnt point, and when about 200 yards from it, proceed as 

 directed in entering southward of the Brandies. 



Ice. — Northeast arm of Catalina harbor freezes over about Jan- 

 uary 1, and thence to the middle of April it is generalh^ completely 

 closed; southerl}'- to southwesterly winds often break the ice up. 



