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 long getting down off Clacton. Then you must keep a sharp look-out for
the Spitway Buoy. It comes on very thick at times, and it is difficult
to judge how far we are out. However, I think I know pretty well the
direction it lies in, and can hit it to within a cable's length or so. I
have found it many a time on a dark night, and am not likely to miss it
now. It will take us an hour and a half or so from the time we pass
Walton till we are up to the buoy." CHAPTER IV. THE WRECK. "I CAN see
the buoy, uncle, over there on the weatherbow." "That is right, Jack. I
am always glad when we get that buoy; it is the hardest to find of any
of them. We shall have to jibe going round it. You stand by to brail the
sail up when I give the word; we might carry away the gaff at the jaws
if we let the sail go over all standing now." As soon as they neared the
buoy Tom Hoskins got in the oar with which the mainsail was boomed out.
"Now, Jack, brail up the sail as she comes round. Haul in the sheet as
fast as you can, Tom, and pay it out again handsomely as it comes over.
That is the way. Now fasten the sheet and throw off the main-tack and
trice the sail up pretty near to the throat. "That will do. Slack the
brail off, Jack. Now haul in the sheet a bit. You had better let the
foresail down, Tom; the wind is heavy, and there is too much sea on here
to drive her through it too fast." The sea would have been far heavier
than it now was in another two hours' time, but the water was still very
shallow on the sands, and this broke the force of the waves. The boat
was now running along the narrow channel of deep water leading between
the Spitway Buoy and the Bell Buoy, and almost at right angles to the
course they had before been following. The wind was almost

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