The crew on board the Peregrine had now began to get busy, shark skin was sold by the pound but it needed to be removed from the shark with care. The first thing that needed to be done was for the sharks to be hoisted on the deck, to do so a line was fastened around the sharks tail and the entire creature was hoisted out of the water. Gaff's and boarding hooks were hooked into the sharks mouth to pull them aboard.

As the first gaff was hooked into the hammer heads mouth the shark came back to life and bit down hard on the gaff and began thrashing about sending the deck crew stumbling about before it flopped on deck and started to jump around snapping at the crew. "Lance that bugger! Haul him off the deck!" The leader of the deck crew ordered.

Eventually the hammer head was finally and truly dead and the crew could set to work skinning the creature. From its bottom jaw to its ventral tail fin a slit was cut allowing the viscera to easily be removed leaving meat, bones and skin to be processed. Additional slits were cut along the fins intersecting with the main cut and then carefully the skin was removed from the meat expanding from every cut before it came off in one whole piece. The skin was set aside for more delicate hands to scrape the pieces of meat and fat off the skin and then have it slathered in tannin the acidic by product of acorns, which turns the skin to tanned hide.

The meat was next unlike fish which only have to be filleted sharks have different cuts of meat including steaks, fillet's, and the tail made a good roast even if it all did taste fishy. The meat would be pickled or smoked or at least salted leaving the boiled jaw bone to be displayed on the side of the Peregrine. Anything that couldn't be eaten or used was dropped over the side.

As sharks were hauled in by the boats others were dropped over the side in a medium paced rhythm until sunset. Seagulls, albatrosses, puffins and other sea birds began feasting as did bull sharks, dog fish, and other scavengers looking for a free easy meal.

By the end of the day the crew was tired, happy and sitting pretty on several bails of shark skins. It was time Cain thought for his crew to hunt bigger pray!