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Sloop and _flambart_ set out each for its own port to repair damages.
After the collision Florimond had examined into the state of his boat, and had judged it such as to make speedy repairs a necessity. The _Bon-Pêcheur_ was injured in her dead works only, but she had lost her figure-head, carried away by the same blow as the bowsprit, and her cut-water was stove. Moreover the tearing of her planking to starboard threatened to let in the water, and with her timbers started in the bow she could not have borne a heavy head sea.