Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-06-15
ON THE BRINEY DEEP.
A CRUISE BY A TRIO OF OUR
LAND SALTS"


Olympia. Kept by County Treasurer Frost
Crew Consisted Of J. R. Pattison, Owner oI
the Sloop. John hasar Its Builder. and Robt
Frost. the Mascot Though Disappointed in
the Object Of Their Trip They Seem to Have
Relished the Salty Breeze with all the En-
thusiasm of veritabIe "Sea Doss"-They
Met with rundown from Uncle Sans
Understrappers at Port Orchard-lncidents
Of the Trip.
Got the sloop ready for trip to
Victoria, B. c., to join in the cclehra-
ton of the Queens birthday, on May
oath, and conditions permitting to en-
ter in the yatch races on that day, and
make general cruise of the Sound
We took in supplies and left Olympia
at ii 30 A. NJ on the 18th, with mod
crate wind on the port quarter, and
struck it pretty squally and wet after
reaching Nesqually bay. We were
bucking a strong flood tide, and below
Steilacoom the wind died down and
the tide set us back about three miles.
When the tide turned, we had little
breeze and plenty Of rain. so that when
We reached Point Defiance, it getting
quite dark, and as We were pretty wet,
we put in at Gig Harbor, where we
anchored for the night.
Got under weigh next morning
about 6 A. NJ. Had a tolerable breeze
down the west passage. The Multno-
nah passed us off Alki point, going
into Seattle at noon and we arrived q
little later and anchored off the
boat house, at the foot of
Battery street, North Seattle. Hav-
ing some alterations to make on the
sails and some more trimming up to
do, we laid in Seattle until Saturday,
the 18th, when we got under weigh at
3 As A. NJ, the boat looking "spick
and span" and as pretty as the best of
them. The sloop Melissa, pulled out
about two hours ahead, and the La
vita was to follow later. We are we'll
supplied with provisions. John Ha'
gar says he started out to get rested
and fat, and from the looks of the
boats lockers it is very probable he
will succeed. By 2 P. M. this day we
made Point No Point, when the wind
died out, and having . strong flood
tide against us and no anchorage we
drifted until $50 p. M. on our back
track, four miles, when breeze sprung
up from the north and we got off
again, this time to beat to windward.
We stood off on the port tack heading
for Useless Bay on WILDLY Island, and
before long we had q chance to try
and prove the boats qualities. Tide
rips and wind kicked up nasty little
sea, and when we got on the starboard
tack and stood over to Foulweather
Bluff, we had all we wanted without
reefing. The boat behaved splendidly,
and laid up to windward in fine style
and stood up very stiff. We all agreed
that no boat could behave better in a
rough place. We weathered Foul
Bluff and stood in for Port
Ludlow, where we concluded to drop
anchor for the night.
We pulled up anchor next day,
Sunday, the Goth, at $50 A. M. with
no wind, but we drifted out along the
shore, and off Oak Bay got a light
beam wind and headed for Marrow
stone Point, and we're agrecably sur
prised to find such handsome build
ings. The top surface OF the point is
nicely graded and the large guns
mounted. OF course our view was
from the boat, as We understood no
visitors are allowed, and we made no
to 60 ashore. We arrived at
Port Townsend at IL NJ. and anchored
close in shore, abreast of where Fow-
|er's wharf used to stand, went ashore
and up to the Custom House, where
we found Mr.. Ed Heutis, the Deputy
Collector, and Notwithstanding this
was Sunday, he got Mr.. Dane Little
field, one OF the inspectors, to come
down and measure us. He found that
we were under the limit, five tons, and
that gave us the permit to 60 where
we pleased without papers. All we
had to do was to report at the Custom
House in Victoria and at Port Town
send on our return. There were at
anchor in Port Townsend, besides our
selves. the yachts Lavita and Melissa.
The next morning, Monday, the 2lst,
the barometer was falling and it did
not look very favorable for an easy
passage across the Straits. The Me-
lissa concluded not to start out, but at
about GA. M. the Lavita got under
weigh and we followed. The wind
was pretty stiff from the west as soon
as we passed Point Wilson. We were
close hauled and stood off OF the port
tack over to Partridge Point, on Whid-
by Island. Then went about and
stood down the Straits and could we'll
weather Protection Island, off Discov-
cry Bay. There our troubles COM
menced. We had new spruce mast
just put in, and a beautiful stick for
the size of it, but it was raining hard
and the wind was so stiff that Mr..
Pattison and Mr.. Hagar both came to
the conclusion that if the wind got