Revised Aug 27 2021
1 pm: Moderate Breezes and Cloudy Weather. Sailmakers employed about the Mizen Top Sail.
4 pm: Fair Weather with heavy dark Clouds in the SW. Saw a Tropic Bird diving for Fish like a Gannet.
6 pm: Worked the Pumps.
7 pm: In 1st. Reefs and set Fore and Fore Top Mast Steering Sails.
8 pm: Very Confused Sea.
10 pm: Cloudy Weather
4 am: Dark Squally Weather to the Eastward.
5 am: Out all Reefs and set steering Sails.
8 am: Fair Weather. Served Portable Soup Gruel as yesterday and Mustard to the Ships Company
9 am: Cleaned below & Aired with Fires, Shifted Hammocks. Aired all Bedding
10 am: Carpenters Caulking the Main Deck about the Windlass.
12 noon: Fair Weather. Squally about the Horizon with Showers, but none with us.
A Confused Swell. Saw Tropic Birds.
Assistant in Company.