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Chapters 1-5

• Mowat began his story by describing going to an auction with his father when he was a child.

• His father bought bee hives and bee equipment because he got carried away.

• Years later, the same thing happened to Mowat, only instead of bees he purchased boating equipment.

• Mowat decided to become a sailor and talked to his friend Jack McClelland about buying a boat together.

• The two men decided to go to Newfoundland and buy a boat.

• In May, Mowat took off for St John's in Newfoundland and met Harold Hardwood.

• Hardwood agreed to help Mowat find a suitable boat.
• Mowat explained he had only one thousand dollars for a boat, and after two days Harold found a boat owned by the Hallohan brothers.

• Mowat went to look at the boat but the fog was too thick.

• Instead he got drunk with the men and bought...

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