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September done as well - I am on vacation, and not much happened, so it did not take long.
On to October, the last month of this year!

And it's done! Last month was just one final trip to St. Paul Island (or was it St. George? I can't recall...), then back down south.

I will do 1912 next. Tally ho!

I'll finish transcribing July 1934 for Shoshone and then I'll get onto it.

Not a great beginning!!!

Sloppy log-keeper. He wrote his 8 AM Longitude for Noon, too.

That's why transcriptions like this are so helpful.

1023: Point Reyes abeam, brg NE 1/4 N, dist. 7 miles, cc NWxW 3/8 W

Using the position at 1023, his courses and speeds gives us this:

The voyage for 1908 has been completed. Many thanks to Hanibal for his stellar work. It wasn't the easiest log to read, being very faint. You cn see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth.