Here the tide turns about six 'clock and runs southeast down the channel.

They would follow this tide to a point considerably below Boulogne, where the current sweeps again to the east and flows into Boulogne harbor, which they hoped to reach about three in the afternoon, making a distance of sixty miles." "At five o'clock in the morning, when daylight came, everything was going well and the exact course indicated by the pilot had been followed, except that the start been about twenty minutes late.

Boyton now paddled alongside and called for his sail, which he adjusted to his foot by means of an iron socket without getting out of the water, lit a cigar and struck out again.

The little sail instantly filled and commenced pulling him along in fine style, making a very appreciable difference in his rate of speed.

At six o'clock they were off Goodwin Sands, a little short of the point that it had been planned to reach.
The tide now commenced turning and they were soon running down the channel under a very favorable breeze; but a nasty sea and thickening weather.