

Mar 21, 1792 Home Tobin's Log Mar 23, 1792
Revised 2010-10-30
1 pm: Light Breezes and fine weather
2 pm: Bent the Fore Top Mast Staysail
3 pm: Unbent the Storm Staysails
4 pm: Unbent the new, and bent the old Fore Sail
7 pm: In steering Sails – worked the pumps as usual – at 8 Light Airs and fine weather inclining to calm – a long Swell from the Westward
10 pm: Moderate breeze and fine weather
11 pm: Luminous Blubbers in the water in small numbers
12 mid: Squally in 1st Reefs Top Sails
1 am: In Top Gallant Sails
4 am: Moderate breezes and cloudy weather – made more Sail – Scrubbed Hamacoes – The People had thick portable Soup Gruel for Breakfast
8 am: Dark cloudy weather – Swell from the SW Cleaned below and aired with fires –
Krout and sweet wort at the usual time Bore Cole in the pease for dinner – Saw Albatrosses and Sheerwaters –
The People making points &c, Sailmakers repairing the foresail – At Noon moderate Breeze and fair weather
Assistant in Company – Broached a puncheon of Spruce Beer
Latitude Observed 39°..22′ South
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