18-April-2006 Position

0'00.0N/128'57.2W
18-Apr-2006 Noon

• 108nm made good last 24 hours
• 2218 Miles from Z-town
• 972 Miles to Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands
• S 15 SE knots wind, 4ft swell
• making 5 knots, sailed last 24 hours.
  

TO ALL SAILORS WHEREVER YE MAY BE: and to all Mermaids, Whales, Sea Serpents, Porpoises, Sharks, Dolphins, Eels, Skates, Suckers, Crabs, Lobsters, and all other Living Things of the Sea.

GREETINGS: Know ye That on this eighteenth day of April 2006, in Latitude 00'00 and Longitude 129'00W there appeared within Our Royal Domain the SV Sandpiper bound SW for the Equator and the Marquesas.

AND BE IT KNOWN By all ye Sailors, Land Lubbers and others who may be honored by her presence that

AMY LARSON

having been found worthy to be numbered as one of our Trusty Shellbacks he has been duly initiated into the
SOLEMN MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE DEEP

BE IT FURTHER UNDERSTOOD That by virtue of the power invested in me I do hereby command all my subjects to show due honor and respect to her wherever she may be.

Disobey this order under penalty of Our Royal Displeasure
Given under our hand and seal this 18th day of April, 2006.

Signed
Neptunus Rex
Ruler of the Raging Main

by his servant T.L. Larson,
Captain SV Sandpiper