ABSTRACT
On getting under way we set a course in the first quadrant in order to use the tide which was [expected] to remain favourable until two in the afternoon. However, we found the sea breeze so light and the swell so high against us, that we made very little progress until noon, when were obliged to tack into the third quadrant when two miles offshore to clear Point Pinos, which was then bearing S30°W six to seven miles distant.
