Iron wreckage protruding above the sea in South Sound is a piece of the Norwegian barque Pallas. Built in Scotland in 1875, she sailed in ballast from Buenos Aires bound for Mississippi via Barbados in 1910. Blown off course by a hurricane on 13 October, Pallas was swept onto the reef, where island residents helped save the lives of her crew. Parts of the ship’s hatches, doors, and cargo still adorn local homes. To the southwest stands the Sand Cay Lighthouse, marking the channel at Pull-and-be-Damned Point. The area earned its colourful name from the futile effort required by a rower to fight the rush of water exiting South Sound. Water driven over the reef by waves must flow out through the channel. Rowers attempting to enter the channel against the current would “pull and be damned.”