Despite the loss of a canoe at the Hartland rapids, 13 Dartmouth canoeists beached safely at Saybrook Point, Conn., the final goal of the 175-mile trip from Hanover to the sea, at 11 o'clock Monday evening, May 30. Bellows Falls, the first objective, was reached early Friday morning. Friday the voyagers paddled to Vernon Falls, passing through Brattleboro, where the trip had been given considerable publicity in the local paper. After a night of paddling the party made Turners Falls Saturday morning and proceeded from there to Holyoke, where they camped for the night.
Sunday afternoon, when the party reached Hartford, they were entertained at dinner by Commodore Merritt of the Hartford Yacht Club. The voyagers failed to meet the Wesleyan Club at Middletown, as had been planned.