

Oct 28, 1792 Home Bond's Log Oct 30, 1792
Revised 2010-07-19
1 pm: Fresh gales and fair weather with haze
4 pm: Saw Sheerwaters.
5 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual
7 pm: In lower steering sail.
10 pm: Set ye lower steering sail.
12 mid: Cloudy
1 am: Shortened sail occasionally for the Assistant to keep in her station
5 am: Out 1st reef Top Sails and set Top Gallant steering sails.
6 am: Served the usual Breakfast of thick Portable Soup Gruel.
8 am: Fresh breezes and cloudy – Up all Chests and Bags, and washed the Gun, Orlop, & Cockpit Decks. Sluiced the Beams &c. and aired with Fires as usual with Brodies stoves in the Cockpits – Served Krout & Vinegar, and Bore Cole and Portable Soup in the Gruel for Dinneer – Sailmakers repairing the Top Gallant Sails
12 noon: Fresh breezes and fine weather with slight haze – The Assistant in company
Latitude Observed 18°:43′ South
Oct 28, 1792 Home Bond's Log Oct 30, 1792