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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 Yantic: general for some general background and discussion.
See Yantic: 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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Reserving this year

Interestingly I found this plan of the ship

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0009.JPG

Made it to the middle of June, spent a lot of time with the Kearsarge and the Ashuelot in Japan and China.

Currently making our way from Nagasaki to Yokohama and having a fair bit of trouble with these unfamiliar place names.

The OW Tools post is very helpful. It lists the tools on the tools website. You will find the Find Place tool very useful.

The log keeper has a bad habit entering cloud form

At 5am the entry is

Cum Nim

then its

"

all the way down to 9am when the entry is

Cir "

In instances like this I have been assuming that the entry for 9am should be

Cir Cum Nim

Hopefully that's ok, if not I'll keep an eye out for it


https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 7_0183.JPG

That's the way to do it. Mind you, it's always difficult to tell just what these guys were thinking.

When I was on a three month course to be a weather observer in 1971, we were taught how to print numbers and letters so that they were always legible, and so that they were always easily distinguishable from all the other letters and numbers. If an entry was incorrect, it had to be crossed out with a single line and the correct entry had to be entered above it. If there was no room, the entire page had to be re-written and both the original and corrected pages had to be saved. Needless to say, we would never use dittoes! And, if you could not make your numbers and letters in the approved way, you would not graduate from the course. It is my profound regret that the methods I was taught were not instituted 100 years earlier.

Year completed, spent a lot of time with the Kearsarge and the Tennessee and a little time in the first half of the year in company with the Ashuelot.

A fair few other ships regularly mentioned, but mostly British, French or Prussian

I'll get to it after I finish processing Yantic 1869 and Lackawanna 1866. Processing Yantic is very slow going, but I'm making progress...

The voyage for 1876 has been completed, with many thanks to the Joke Slayer. Once again, the hand-writing left much to be desired. It's a shame the log writers weren't as diligent as the transcribers! 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 were a few people mentioned here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

Weather Element	Records
DirT	8,780
Kts	8,747
Baro	8,774
Attd	8,769
Dry	8,777
Wet	8,694
Water	418
Weather	8,767
Clouds	8,744
Clear	8,660
Total	79,130

Yantic travelled a total of 6,686 miles.