KED BAY DIEECTIONS. 647 



Directions. — Red bay is easy of access with a leading wind, but 

 there is only room for small vessels to beat in or out, as the entrance 

 between the shoal water off Saddle island and the bowlders and shoal 

 water off Moore point is only 400 yards wide for them and 200 yards 

 wide for large vessels. 



From the eastward steer for the entrance, passing southward of 

 Thistle and Scab rocks ; see clearing marks, pages 645, 646. 



From the westward bring a black-roofed house on the middle of 

 Penney island in line with the western end of Saddle island, bearing 

 12°, w^hich leads westward of Belles Amours shoal and midway be- 

 tween Mad Moll and the Louse. To pass eastward of these three 

 shoals, keep Moore point in line with the western end of Saddle 

 island, bearing 359°. 



Round the western end of Saddle island at a distance of 200 to 300 

 yards, and bring and keep the church, bearing 46°, midway between 

 the two summits marked on the plan 377 feet and 361 feet high, and 

 situated about 1^ miles to the northeastward. The church in line 

 with the left-hand summit (377 feet), bearing 41°, clears the shoal 

 ground northward of Saddle island; in line with the right-hand 

 summit (361 feet), bearing 51°, clears the shoal gi"ound off Moore 

 point and Penney island. Then, when it comes on, steer for a promi- 

 nent white house in line with the summit marked on the plan 195 

 feet in height, bearing 67°, and anchor in the harbor in 7 to 9 

 fathoms. 



The harbor is almost invariably crowded with fishing schooners, 

 and unless in a very small vessel it will probably be necessary to 

 proceed into the basin, where there is plenty of room and there is less 

 likelihood of being fouled by icebergs, which occasionally drift in. 



To proceed into the Basin keep in mid-channel between Penney 

 island and the eastern shore of the harbor. Anchor in 15 to 17 

 fathoms, but in order to clear the shoal on the southwestern side of 

 the Basin do not shut in the stage in the middle of the northern side 

 of Saddle island, with the wharf on the eastern side of Penney 

 island bearing 164°. 



The holding ground is good in the Harbor, and also in the Basin, 

 for vessels with proper ground tackle, but in the heavy northerly 

 gales of autumn which blow through it, small craft with inferior 

 ground tackle frequently drag. With strong southwesterly winds it 

 blows with gi^eat violence down Western arm and into the Harbor, 

 and occasionally small steamers at anchor in the Harbor are com- 

 pelled to seek shelter in the Basin. 



Caution — Local magnetic disturbance. — The compass is con- 

 siderably affected in the vicinity of Saddle island ; the variation on the 

 western summit of this island was observed to be 18° 52' W., and on 



