Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, knots, fathoms, courses steered, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
If the ship is not moving (e.g., at anchor), knots, fathoms, and courses steered do not need to be transcribed. In that case, the course is usually the ship's heading.

On the events page please enter: location information, sailing information, and any mentions of ice.
In general there is no need to include comments about the weather unless there is something unusual or extreme.
Comments about problems with or changes of the weather instruments are very rare but should be noted.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be transcribed, but if they are seen on the following days they don't have to be transcribed again. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings.
Other events are optional.

One person can do both weather and events (Stream 1), but the system also allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Stream 2).

Every page needs to have a date. The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Tuscarora: general for some general background and discussion.
See Tuscarora: examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

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To complete a voyage Cal to Cal I can do Nov & Dec this year as well as 1876 in full.

Be brave, do Jan-Dec 1875 as well as 1876.

Let me see how the 1876 scribe and crew behave before committing to 1875 as well.
Looking at the sample page they have a problem keeping on course

No worries. Do whatever works for you.

If I don't get on with the crew I may jump ship in Sydney next year.

If they're like the crew on Tuscarora in 1862, you won't have any crew left by the time you get there.

OK, Michael, you talked me into it.
I'll do this after 76.

I'm back.