Fair Wind to Java

In 1883, the Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, company that owns the Full-rigged ship ''Gerrymander'' gives the ship's Sea captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit for the company in the ''Gerrymander''s operations in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both Piracy and a trade exclusion policy that prevents him from carrying goods between ports in the islands, Boll looks for a way for the ''Gerrymander'' to make money. On Java, Boll encounters an Native Indonesians in Soerabaja whose life he once saved. The Indonesian tells Boll that native Underwater diving Marine salvage a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship ''Pieterzoon'', contrary to legend which says the diamonds were lost. The Indonesian directs Boll to a Chinese people Junk (ship) captain who has cargo that will lead Boll to the diamonds.<ref name="tcmplot"></ref>