Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
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 3).
Unlike in OW3, where three transcriptions were required for each page, we are doing only one transcription per page.

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Kearsarge: general for some general background and discussion.
See Kearsarge: 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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I will do this and the remaining years in the block 1888 - 1894.

That should keep me out of mischief for a while.

9th Nov
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Rainy, cold and disagreeable.

Doesn't look much better for the day. Great welcome to the ship for me.

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No idea which dir we are going.

WOW!!! Terrible hand-writing!!!

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Never saw an S like that before!

Thanks Micheal mine agree with yours
They got underway at 1800 and had course in with Pat log. Worked it out after I posted and forgot to delete post.

I think this scribe will slow me down a lot.
The writing has got better since we arrived at Hampton Rds.

Looks like someone has actually looked at the logs as there are some Xs where the entries cannot be correct.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 6_0049.JPG

The weather and the Events entries are now easy to read.

Pity the desertion rate has not improved. Just re-commissioned and their off and away.
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Don't know why as we are off to Porto Grande, Cape Verde

Yes I know, shades of the Concord.

Dec 6 and 7 roughly 35 30N and 56 40W
Not a nice few days at sea. Up to force 10 and Rolling up to 31 deg.

Urp

Michael wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 12:47 am

More like

I'm laughing at Randi's, "Urp!"

Oh, they were a bad bunch in Dec.

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I am off to 1889

The voyage for 1888, all two months worth, has been done. Once again, a great job by Stuart, who dealt very successfully with horrible hand-writing.

You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There was no mention of people.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather Element	Records
DirT	1239
Kts	1254
Baro	1236
Attd	1236
Dry	1236
Wet	1236
Water	701
Weather	1403
Clouds	1229
Clear	1223
Total	11993

Kearsarge travelled a total of 4484 miles.