Ship’s stores generally bearing up although gin supplies strangely depleted, the First Lieutenant is assumed to be guilty but he had drunk all the evidence.
A fine breakfast of ham and Coon (it is a type of cheese gentle reader) and an early start was made after a quick swim with the sharks.
The sea was somewhat placid this morning like a mill pond perhaps and sailing was quite a challenge but through constant attention to our trim an average speed of 6 knots was maintained (by trim do you mean throttle? – ed).
After a mid-morning snorkel around Blue Pearl Bay followed by some nourishing soup for elevenses they moored up for luncheon conveniently enough in Luncheon Bay. A fine selection of sea food including some disturbing creatures that are apparently Alien face-huggers but more properly called Balmain Bugs topped off the feast.
More snorkling in Manta Ray Bay and some fine mid-afternoon sailing took us back to Stonehaven Anchorage for the evening.
Anchor horlicks of the day was the amusing discovery that the anchor fairies had put a knot in the blasted chain which made dropping it quite a challenge.As usual some quick reconnaissance of the shore was put in before it got too dark and the brave away crew invested most of the local shore.
Chief Buffon spotted a couple of sharks but the rest of the crew would only believe that they were a pair of Bullshit Sharks. 
The return journey was “enlivened” when Master and Commander managed to flood the engine on the tender and they had to start paddling back
but fortunately after only 30 minutes of frantic efforts by Chief Buffon at restarting the beast it sprang back into life and they just made it back to the vessel before last light.
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