Revised Sep 8, 2021
1 pm: Moderate breeze and fair weather
2 pm: Saw three Red Tailed Tropic Birds
5 pm: Worked the pumps – Saw an Egg Bird
6 pm: Down Steering Sails and in 1st Reefs – Set the Fore Top Mast Studding Sail
10 pm: Cloudy weather
12 mid: Light breezes and clear weather
4 am: Cloudy
5 am: A Light Shower of rain – Out Reefs and set Steering Sails on both Sides – Saw a small Brown Sheerwater
8 am: Fresh Breezes and fair weather – in Larboard Steering Sails – The People had the same breakfast as yesterday – Washed the Gun, Orlop, and Cockpit Decks and aired with the Stoves in the Fore & after Cockpits (as usual) – Exercised the Marines at platoon firing – The Sailmaker making Caps for the Swivel [holes?] – Served Wort and Krout as usual and the weekly allowance of Vinegar – Bore cole and Portable Soup mixed with oatmeal for dinner – Measured the Log Line
12 noon: At Noon moderate breeze a fair weather – Assistant in Company – Carpenters
repairing ye Launch
Latitude Observed 27°..18′ South