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The Muse asks: What's a typical day for you?
That depends entirely upon whether I am on land or at sea and what sort of conditions may occur. At home, a typical day often involves trying to bring my financial interests to fruition, making an attempt to tend my garden, playing with my children, appeasing my wife's mother and perhaps visiting with someone from the Admiralty Office who might be able to get me a ship. Often I retreat to my observatory after dealing with these necessities.
On a calm sea, a typical day may have such routine that each flows into the next: I will wake, bathe, eat, observe the quarterdeck, check our course and speed, send the gun crews to practice, make notes in the log, inspect for any repairs or alterations that I believe are necessary, oversee the stores and perhaps Stephen and I might have some music in the evening. However, if it comes on to blow or if an enemy sail appears on the horizon, a hundred different decisions may be made before a single turn of the glass, and sometimes I neither sleep nor eat anything beyond what Killick can hand me on the deck for an entire day.
That depends entirely upon whether I am on land or at sea and what sort of conditions may occur. At home, a typical day often involves trying to bring my financial interests to fruition, making an attempt to tend my garden, playing with my children, appeasing my wife's mother and perhaps visiting with someone from the Admiralty Office who might be able to get me a ship. Often I retreat to my observatory after dealing with these necessities.
On a calm sea, a typical day may have such routine that each flows into the next: I will wake, bathe, eat, observe the quarterdeck, check our course and speed, send the gun crews to practice, make notes in the log, inspect for any repairs or alterations that I believe are necessary, oversee the stores and perhaps Stephen and I might have some music in the evening. However, if it comes on to blow or if an enemy sail appears on the horizon, a hundred different decisions may be made before a single turn of the glass, and sometimes I neither sleep nor eat anything beyond what Killick can hand me on the deck for an entire day.