In the morning and forenoon the wind was a WSW fresh breeze and there were foggy skies. By the beginning of the forenoon we steered ENE, saw a couple of ships both in our direction and the opposite, we passed captain Brink who had sailed out with us. We to reefto enlarge the surface area exposed to the wind.reefed the topsails. In the afternoon we estimated the island Isle of WightEngland, United KingdomWigt N 8 miles from us. We still sailed ENE. Afternoon and dog watches: heavy sky with fog. When 4 Glasses in a watchThe length of the watches was measured using an hourglass filled with sand. Each watch consisted of 8 half-hour glasses, marked by bells.glasses in the dog watches had run out we reefed two topsails, and when 6 glasses in ditto watch had run out we saw the island Wigt in the NE very close to us so we heaved to the wind and steered SSE. With the beginning of the middle watch we steered E by S with a stiff Sail of which the surface area has been reduced two times in order to make the surface area smaller.double-reefed top sail breeze. We had dark foggy skies till the morning.

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