The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29
A LIVELY SAIL AROUND CAPE COD
A Young Savannahian's Log of "a
Fair Voyage.

Fair Voyage.
Twenty-Five hours and seventeen min
utes around Cape Cod from Hyannis Port
to Hog Hole, distance of 10 miles in
sailing yacht is a pretty good clip. In
letter to Mr.. Theodore Barnard, his
brother Will gives an interesting ac-
count Of a trip he and a couple of COM
panons made a week or two ago. AS a
nautical yarn 1t is a good one. This is the
story written from Hull, Mass:
We left Hyannis Port at 3:45 p. m Fri
day, April 20, with one reef in the main
sail and whole jib. The wind was SOUTH
west, and there was a fairish lump of
sea on. We had not been able to get her
ready any sooner but we thought we
would run down TO the Powder Hole and
make an early morning start. Well, sir,
we simply smoked it out round PIT. Gam
mon and shaped our course for the Pow
der Hole. We had a head tide, and the
wind began to fade, so when we had
Bass river light abeam although several
miles Off we shook out the reef.
We did not seem to get along very fast,
but we must have, for we soon began TO
get down Monomoy way. When we left
the port we could see thick fog down on
the shoals, but as we got nearer the fog
rolled Off TO sea and finally a sunset we
determined to make 1t night run up the
Cape. We flashed by the end of Monomoy
at 6:55 p. m. g hours and 10 minutes-16
miles) and ran slowly up the beach to
Monomoy light. The tide held us back
here BY this time night had fallen. but
the stars were out in full force, and we
could see Chatham lights, Pollock rip,
Handk erchief and l thought | saw a
fash or two of Sankaty. We laid our
course by compass N +. by EAE to the
whistling buoy on the end of Chatham
har win hel CtP hn
was perfectly smooth, except for the us
ual easterly heave. We heard this swell
breaking on the beach all night We
rounded the whistler at p. M, exactly q
hours. minutes-l0 miles) At this point
a fairish-sized steamer passed just outside
of US, and rather alarmed one of us, for
he swo-e she was running straight for us
although the port light did not show
We now made our course NAV to carry
us nearer the beach, and inside of the
regular steamer and hooker track. We
did some tall travelling up the soft spots.
although we ran into several soft spots.
Before reaching Nansett we made out a
three-master to leeward, and we hung on
to him pretty well. Several lows passed
outside of us. We had the three lights
abeam at II :3S p. m. q hours, 3S minutes
1915 miles,
The wind now freshened so much that
at midnight just after passing a smack
two reefs while - kept her on her
course. l only took minutes to sag away,
tie down, and hoist again, which l thought
was pretty good night Job.
The moon had already risen and being
only a week past full, was very welcome,
1t gave us a greater observation, which
was a good thing. During the night we
saw five three-masters, and one four
masted schooner that never showed a
light We had an anchor light which we
carried on the deck aft and occasionally
helf aloft for a few minutes.
1t was my turn below when we reached
Nansett. but j decided not to go as ! was
practically the pilot. You win remember
how far you have to go after passing
Nansett before you raise Highland or
more properly Cape Cod light, owing To
the curve in the coast line. We'll. just
when we sighted Highland the wind took
a sudden fall and left us This was about
where you caught the northeast blow. as
/ remember It., and we were very much
afraid we should get "A taste OF H. But
after an hour and a half wasted in turn
ing Ia circles We caught "A light westerly
air which enabled us to slowly pun up 10
Cape Cod light which was abeam al 3 &c
b. IN. q hours, IS minutes-l32. milesJ II
was TOO early TO get reported as We had
hoped 30 that distinction rests "wid
youse fellers" alone
A. 400 "A. m. the sun rose. but immo-
datlir went inio bank OF clouds aud
did not show up for a long time. We were
here most uncomfortable. Lord how cold
% was-ny feet were 90 cold they hurt.
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