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Good to read about an act of kindness.
We call it "Pay ahead" downunder.

Same here. Nice story, gives one hope for mankind.

We call it "Pay forward" in Pittsburgh.

And, I definitely will!

The log keeper on the Shenandoah for most of 1873 tended to write with a lot of flourish, especially his Fs and Ms. However, he exceeded even his most extreme flourishness on November 5. Zoom in on the event page to get a real sense of just how extreme it is.

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Wow! He aimed to impress, didn’t he?

I don’t know that much about how the logs were kept. Do you think it was the handwriting of R.S. Evans?

From what I have read, his job is to certify that this is a correct copy of the rough/deck log.

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In the second column it says: The Smooth Log Book is to be a correct certified copy of the Rough Log.

And a Happy Birthday from me.

Happy Birthday, dOcent!

Happy Birthday- and the whole year, for that matter! With a cake like that, who couldn't help but smile.
Best regards,
Morgan

Happy birthday from me, too, d0cent! May the coming year have as many delicious layers as that cake!

Pommystuart is going on holiday again.
If anybody wants to guess where I am or where I have been look at
Where is Pommystuart post.
It may be a week before the first post.

Have fun!!!

Have fun, Pommystuart!

Hi all,

ellenbaum pointed this out to me today: An NPR interview about a whaling logbook project at New Bedford/Woods Hole that is almost exactly what we're doing. No mention of Old Weather, though. Does somebody know UMass professor Dr. Timothy Walker?

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/05 ... ge-whaling

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So, as the whaling logbook person I immediately listened to this.

I haven't heard of this, actually. It's entirely possible they came up with this idea independently (why not?) but I find it somewhat unlikely since he works with New Bedford that he doesn't know about us. I'll drop a line to Walker to let him know about our parallel work and have a chat. Maybe Woods Hole is interested in our data, too.

~April

Thanks! Seems like we ought to collaborate.

I AM awfully curious why we didn't get mentioned, though, since we are featured on the New Bedford Whaling Museum website and I have spoken to someone there in the last few months.