Seaborne — George G. Pinneo

Gabrial Milland and Aliana Landing met at the University of Mars, Candor Cliffs, in Dr. Panter's class in Planetary Sciences to become planet scouts for House Blackmon. The two of them had scouted on three planets so far: Vondalar, Brandywine and Pacifica. Pacifica was an anomaly for either House Blackmon or Blake Ltd. to invest in surveying for valuable metals: Pacifica was 87 percent ocean" a world-spanning ocean surrounding a single, narrow, rugged chain of islands. House Shosan chartered a trip to the oceanic planet to help the two scouts build a small, open cedar-strip daysailer to teach the Canth team more of oceans, boats and cetaceans. They made exactly 3 day trips on the Western Ocean before being startled by what must be a plesiosaur Gabe got them back into shallow water he hoped was too shallow for a 30-foot marine reptile to swim in.