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days. Coming back was the same way. Once, we was fourteen daysbefore we got home out of it. There was no power then, it was all sails.Sometimes there would be too much wind. Other times, there would notbe enough. We had to take whatever come.I remember a storm up in Twillingate. That was in the early fifties. Wewent up there with a load of drummed fish. A drum of fish was fourquintals of fish in one barrel. Earles and Laymans would pack up the dryfish and ship it aboard a big boat. If the weather was too bad, or the boatcould not get into Fogo, we would freight the fish up to Twillingate forthem. There, it would be put it aboard the big boat.On one of these trips, the wind came up and we got caught inTwillingate. It started to snow, and boy it blowed a starm! Light poleswas blowing down and everything was blowing to pieces. Shocking. Apassenger boat from Musgrave Harbour called The Madeline Rose wasdocked at Colbourne's wharf. The wind took her and she burst her lines.She drove ashore by a feller's flake and was 'bate to pieces. That wassome rough night!When we left to come down from Twillingate, the water was as rough ascould be. I remembers Mr. Harvey Cobb used to come down fromLewisporte bringing passengers. We was on the way to Fogo when wemet up with Mr. Cobb's boat just off Hare Bay. Hare Bay is what theycalls Deep Bay now. He was watching us go along and could not believehow much the boat was 'knockin' about. He said to the crowd ofpassengers on his boat, "Look! Jimmy John Perry is going to turnbottom up!"When we got to the wharf in Fogo, Harvey told us that one time whenshe rolled down, he could see her keel. He said she went away down onher side. At the time, we thought she was going to stay down too, butshe rolled back up again. He said he could have gone on ahead of us,but he would not. He was waiting for us to go bottom up. He wanted tobe there to pick us out of the water.Grub on the boat would not be too bad. The biggest feeds we wouldhave would be potatoes and meat. There was no such thing as opening