Phil Street smiled.
"Seems to me we're starting our adventure rather inauspiciously," he said.

"If we have a grouch before we leave the dock what's going to happen later ?" "Maybe it's a good thing to have it now and get over it," laughed Steve.
"It was hot, though! And it isn't much cooler here.

Let's get under way, fellows, and find a breeze.

It will take us the better part of four hours to get to Bay Shore, anyway, and I telephoned Wink yesterday that we'd be there by three.

Every fellow into sea-togs as quick as he can make it.