Revised Sep 6, 2021
1 pm: Fresh Breezes and cloudy at 1 PM brought up in Girdlets Hole in 10 fathoms Water Beacon off the [?] Land NW – Girdlers Buoy SSW½W. Handed Sails up Top Gallant Yards – Weighed and made sail under single reefed Topsails set Top Gallant sails
7 pm: ahead of Pan sand Beacon, Out all Reefs, light Breezes and cloudy – North Forland SbE 9 Miles and Margate SBW – Came too with the small Bower in 8 Fathoms – North Foreland SBW 5 or 6 Miles
4 am: AM at 4 Moderate Breeze weighed and made Sail
6 am: Handed the Main Sail
7 am: Hove too off Deal, out pinnace, The Captain went on board the Commodore, found lying here H M Ship Ardent, Pomona & a sloop of War
11 am: At 11 Hoisted in the Pinnace
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