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Finding Newfoundland
On the third return trip after founding the colony, diUmbria sails with a massive haul of stone and lumber for building more permanent buildings. The decision is made to hire a navigator out of Las Palmas for this trip, but it proves to be a terrible miscalculation; the inexperienced fool tacks west too early, directly into the strong headwinds that run east across the north atlantic. The mistake puts them against the wind for weeks. Food begins running low, but thankfully supplies were not exhausted by the time they reached Boston. After sailing down to the colony to supervise initial construction of an organized market, sail back north, past Boston,…