April 17, 1524

Dear Diary,
4 months have passed since the start of the voyage to seek a path to Asia. There is a storm over head making it extremely difficult to use any form of latitude and longitude measurements, it is impossible to use the astrolabe, barley able to use the chart because the storm is causing unruly waters, and the clouds cover view for the Back Staff. All there is to use is the compass and Dead Reckoning.
The crew is working like the devil himself is after them to keep the ship afloat, and that’s not the only thing to worry about, the lightning is extremely present and dangerously close to the mast, which could result in no sails to sail by. To add to that the cartography isn’t great in the area this ship is voyaging towards, so we have to be careful on which ways the journey leads us.
The crew must be tough in this situation; if one person fails to complete their job then it is likely that the whole crew will start to decline in the quality of their stabilization of the ship. I’m not too worried about that though because the majority of sailors have nowhere else to go, there are either runaways or just have aspirations to sail. We just have to wait for the storm to pass.