Revised Aug 26 2021
1 pm: Light Winds and fair Weather. Unbent the Storm Stay Sails – Bent the old Fore Sail and Fore Top Mast Stay Sail.—
4 pm: Exercised at Small Arms
6 pm: In Steering Sails. Let fresh Water into the hold and Worked the
pumps to ventilate the Ship
Very great Swell from the SW —
9 pm: Fires all Night to Air the Ship
12 mid: Squally in 1st. Reefs
4 am: Moderate and Cloudy. Scrubbed Hammocks
6 am: Dark Cloudy Weather Albetrosses Sheerwaters and Mother Careys Chicken
8 am: Served thick Portable Soup Gruel for Breakfast Krout and Sweet Wort, Bore Cole in the pease for Dinner
10 am: Employed Cleaning Ship Working up Junk mending Sails & Cloaths & Carpenters making Coverings for the Locks on the Quarter Deck Guns
12 noon: Moderate and Fair Weather. Broached a Puncheon of Spruce Beer for the Ships
Company. A great Swell from the SW.
Assistant in Company