The silver is still out there.

Every storm season, the beaches between Sebastian Inlet and Fort Pierce give up a few more coins from the fleet that went down in July 1715. Field Notes from the 1715 Fleet is the history under the story, in nine short sections, free for readers.

• The runHow the treasure fleets worked, and the two captains-general who sailed in 1715.
• Portobelo and the silver roadPotosí to the Caribbean by mule, barque and mule again. The fair. The quinto. The second system.
• Havana, and a captain who sailed earlyAmaro Pargo was real. What the record says, and what the novella invents.
• The hurricane, the camp, the salvage, the raidJuly 31, 1715. Eleven ships. Five million pieces of eight on a beach, and Henry Jennings coming for them.
• The man who picked up the first coinKip Wagner, the Real Eight, and the small, loud world that followed him.
• What is real and what is notA straight accounting of the novella's liberties.