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August done, she went to Chefoo, China - one of two places I know of that sound like a sneeze.
(The other is Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein).

September done. Bit of moving around, but mostly in Chefoo.

Gesundheit!

October done. Still in the same place, just shifted anchorage once.

November done, she didn't move at all this time - what is this, early hibernation?

And the year's done! On to 1876.

I'll get to it soon. We have company staying with us until Saturday, so my OW time is a bit limited.

Michael wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 1:25 pm We have company staying with us until Saturday, so my OW time is a bit limited.

The voyage for 1875 has been done, with many thanks to Hanibal for his stellar work. The plot for the voyage can be seen here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth.

Weather stats for this voyage:
There are 8759 records for Dir
There are 8756 records for Baro
There are 6572 records for Attd
There are 8760 records for Dry
There are 8758 records for Wet
There are 830 records for Water
There are 8744 records for Weather
There are 7423 records for Clouds
There are 8718 records for Clear
The total number of weather records: 67320 for Kearsarge_Ice_1875
The total number of positions: 8760

I was complaining about your log-keeper. He would go for hours through Japan's Inland Sea with no course logged and only one or two places mentioned, and they would be badly spelled. Also, he would also just say something like "At 7:15 Island bearing NE," with no name given. I thought, why don't you, Hanibal, talk sternly to these people?!!

And here, on Yantic, 1875:

At 7:15 Island bore abeam (p.c.) WNW.

I guess I have to speak sternly to my people, too.

He would go for hours through Japan's Inland Sea with no course logged and only one or two places mentioned, and they would be badly spelled. Also, he would also just say something like "At 7:15 Island bearing NE," with no name given.

The Shenandoah log keeper may have started the tradition in 1868. That's very similar to their trip through the Inland Sea. There were entries like, "land sighted", without even mentioning which direction, and "land no longer visible". If a place name was mentioned, it didn't match anything I could find on any maps. I wonder what the issue was with the Inland Sea. At least for the Shenandoah, the navigation entries were good once leaving Nagasaki.