Hachman, C.D. 1965 Journal 105 March 11 Jervis Island that had been calm earlier in the morning. It took us until 9:30 am to reach the east shore. The ship sent the other boat in to meet us as soon as we cleared the channel. Since we had a makeshift rig we had all sorts of problems: 1) the raft with the two seat sections missing, 2) only 2 paddles (and 3 boards we picked up for that purpose) and 3) a partly deflated boat and 4) 1 broken strap on the motor mount which had been replaced by several pieces of mylar cord. So in spite of this we charged out into the channel started the motor and started moving. At the mouth of the channel the motor mount gave way (helped by the fact that the boat was partly deflated) and the motor was drowned out completely. Everyone started paddling frantically with boards and paddles until the other boat came in and threw us a line and started towing. Just as it looked like we were clear and had made a clean getaway a 10 or so foot wave roared in from nowhere and almost upset both boats. We Fortunately, the wave wasn't breaking or we would have had it. At this point we were about 250 yards off- shore directly opposite from some very high surf. If we had lost the motor or had been dumped at this point we would have had it. Eventually we got out to the ship and were taken aboard safely. At that we all shared a sigh of relief... The rubber raft we used was completely demolished by on this around the very edge of the reef. It had about 25 holes in its bottom - some as large as a man's head. After a morning like this we were all completely exhausted so it didn't take us very long to cash out.