mainland of Nova Scotia, was a long distance off.

We rigged up a buoy on the bow of the dory to help break the waves and turned our backs to the wind and snow, and set her out to the end whichever it would be. No place for greenhorns or as I should say, inexperienced seamen.

That morning we were watching the shore as we were to the East of the Island and about 5 am we saw a man at MacCormack’s Cove on the east side of Boughton Island walking back and forth. It was my brother, Peter Clarey, also a fisherman. He had a marine boat but he did not try to get out fishing. in fact, we were the only fishermen out that morning so there was no one to come to our aid. All the fishermen

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”me“(hmDothLIbmeyNs and did not venture over the “My Aiki'ndrCo. sandbar to get out as the breakers were mountainous. Anyway, about 3 pm, the storm cleared, the sun came out and the water calmed right down. We were watching for the marine boats to come and they did from all quarters because there was a large fleet of lobster fishermen on this little Island for the season. Here we dropped the last killock that we finished running lines with and started rowing to MacCormack’s cove. We then walked home to the shanty and got our first meal since the night before. Then we went down and put out three loads of traps and landed the first lobsters that season on Boughton Island.

We finished the season on the 30th day of June and landed 3,000 pounds of lobsters at 6 1/2 cents a pound which totaled $195.00. We split it in two and each was just short of $100.00. We then paid off our $40.00 loan to the late James Condon of Georgetown. We piled our traps and rope on the bank to dry, hauled the dory out, turned it over and covered it. It was a George Bachman dory, build somewhere over around Lunenburg, N.S. I do believe that if we didn’t have a dory of this caliber that neither one of us would be around to tell the tale....

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