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North Base station and in P.M. from Southwest & Driftwood stations. The Wild Gazelle goes out again about noon. Get the Humboldt on the beach to clean her bottom. Evening clouds up again wind apparently shifting again to the southward. 9 P.M. bar.30.260. Saturday Aug 17 Bar 30.230. Ther 51.62.56. Cloudy wind SE with fog & some rain. Vessel keeled over on the beach go down to Rocky point near tide meter and indent benchmark. It is placed nearly west of the cross on the point about one foot above the line of the highest barnacles on the North face of the south side of a gap in the strata which decline to the south of it in an even and steep angle from the top of the bank to the surface of the water - South of this gap which is wedge shaped and about four feet wide at the waters edge there are no more. North of it the rocks are broken up irregularly. The mark is a triangle open upward. The base of which was 3 feet 3 in 3/4 above the surface of the water which read on the staff 7 ft 4 in or in all 10 ft 7 3/4 in above the zero of the staff. The high water of last night read 9.6