We departed San Carlos at 5 am on April 12, headed for Conception Bay with a single hander Tom on Nipagon. We had a nice passage after some rolly seas at the start and arrived in Conception Bay at 4 pm and anchored in
Coyote Bay. Nipagon kept falling further behind on the crossing and we lost radio contact as only his portable was working. Around 9 pm we got a call rom Nipagon, who was in the Bay but with no wind, he could not proceed, so at his request, we launched the dingy with the 15 horse and sped out to the rescue. The winds were calm and he did not set the anchor as he could not get the transmission to work. We determined the next day that he had overheated it due to seaweed on the prop. I loaned him a quart and I think he had one as well, but he failed to try the transmission.Meanwhile the 15 horse outboard quit working. The next day the wind got up to 30 knots and we noticed his boat drifting. We could not raise him on the radio so I broadcast on channels 22 and 16 that he was adrift, and two other boats came to the rescue and helped him reanchor. Luckily, the transmission worked well enough to set the hook. When we visited his boat, we discovered he did not know how to operate the SSB Radio, and only had the portable vhf. I got the 2 horse outboard working so we could use the big dingy as well as the kayak
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