CHAPTER 1

MacCormacks

@ last year that Mrs. MacCormack

and her son, Frank, spent the summer on Boughton Island, we paid them a visit. We had a small schooner that my father bought from Athol MacKinnon of Montague Furnishing Company. We sailed to Boughton Island from Cardigan.

The crew on the occasion K,,,,M,a;m,d,,, of the Boughton Island visit

Tancook schooner in 1945. consisted Of Boughton_born Jimmy Allen who had moved to Cardigan by then, my youngest brother, Francis, and myself. Everything was fine on the way down except between Newport and Launching we were struck by a sudden electrical storm which resulted in gusty winds and driving rain. This was something we didn’t need because we had to navigate through a channel to get inside an underwater bar that stretches from the Western end of Boughton Island nearly up to the entrance of Cardigan River.

Whether this was the occasion of the halyard for the mainsail getting loose and going up to the top of the mast, I cannot be sure, but I do remember it happened on one occasion and Jimmy Allen shinnied up the

_ IimmyAlIen mast and retrleVed the murmsy,1l1arlha(King)Kinnezr