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88 a heavy dew last night and near water is [[strikethrough]] sligh [[/strikethrough]] a slight fog which soon clears up before the sun. Lifted anchor about 6:45 AM then proceeded along quiet calm waters easy to follow. [[red underline]] Thunderbolt village [[/red underline]] very pretty some pretty residences. Spanish moss covered trees. A [[red underline]] cemetary [[/red underline]] ^[[strikethrough]] Bans [[/strikethrough]] [[(Bonaventura)]] with its white monuments and vegetation of palmettos, pines live oaks and spanish moss in [[red underline]] the quiet atmosphere appears very impressive. [[/red underline]] Before [[red underline]] Savannah [[/red underline]] Yacht Club were we dropped anchor about 9:30 I notice the Yacht [[red underline]] Nuska [[/red underline]] of Islip tied up near wharf. Afterwards I met the proprietor [[red underline]] Mr. Van Ende son of the owner of Brooklyn Eagle [[/red underline]] who says he knows [[red underline]] Sam T. Peters and Williams [[/red underline]] very well. One excentric of his [[red underline]] engine is broke [[/red underline]] and he is waiting for [[end page]] [[start page]] 89 the parts to arrive from Buffalo. Well received by Steward and attendants of [[red underline]] Savannah Yacht [[/red underline]] Club, beautifully situated in a [[strikethrough]] mag [[/strikethrough]] lovely garden of live oaks with Spanish Moss and Palmettos all so quiet and pretty. [[vertical red line in left margin highlights remainder of page]] [[red underline]] I am rid of my captain! That man Johnson, was a veritable blight on my trip. [[strikethrough]] I paid him in full [[/strikethrough]] I felt like a relief when he dropped anchor this morning and went ashore. [[/red underline]] I never want to have a man like that again. Good navigator, honest but grouchy and churlish to the extreme. The limit of gloom [[red underline]] unfit for humor. [[/red underline]] Complaining ever. Complaining about rain complaining about rough water, [[strikethrough]] never [[/strikethrough]] increasing unnecessarily every little incident. Kicking and kicking and when he had [[/vertical red line in left margin]]