Old Weather Forum

Welcome on board the Coral (Bark) of San Francisco. Mastered by Rodolphus Delano Wicks on voyage from 6 Nov. 1886 - 20 Aug. 1887 and 11 Feb. 1888 to 25 Oct. 1888

If you would like to work on a section of the log please

• leave a note in the next available reply section of this board below
• remember to say which section you would like to work on
• a link to the workbook, for your transcriptions, will be provided to you by personal message
• let us know if you would rather work in Excel, LibreCalc, or Google Sheets
• each section of the log must be transcribed by three different transcribers

Where to start once I have my log section and workbook?
Please ensure that you read these information pages before transcribing

1. Transcribing: capturing the log details, and information resources
2. Transcribing: managing your recording workbook

Dates are in the format YYYYMMDD. Links to log book pages are shown in blue

Journey section / Users	Date from	Date to	General Position	Comments
A Captain: arboggs First mate: ronweil Boatsteerer:	18861106	18870328	San Francisco to Korea via Hawaii	This section ends in the Corea (Korea) Straits off Chosan-Mai (Chosan Har) after some small success with sperm whaling
B Captain: arboggs First mate: Boatsteerer:	18870329	18870820	In the Japan Sea, moving to the Okhotsk Sea	Plenty of fog
The above journey is complete. Pages 47 and 48 are blank. Page 49 commences the second journey which is during 1888
C Captain: arboggs First mate: Boatsteerer:	18880211	18880615	The log starts when they are already in the Yellow Sea	Then into the Korea Straits and the Japan Sea
D Captain: arboggs First mate: Boatsteerer:	18880616	18881025	The Japan Sea, then the Okhostk Sea	Turns south on the 20th September and is bound to San Francisco by the 30th October 1888

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Note

• The ship works on Civil time:
  Journey 1886-1887: Tuesday 12 April 1887 Comes in [...] middle part [...] two PM [...] five PM [...]
  Journey 1888: Sunday 15 April 1888 Come in with [...] middle part [...] at 12 luff to [...] at one PM [...] at three PM [...] and at five [...]
• Notes a lot of place names are mentioned which can usually be found in the Geographical Help board. If the name is not present please check in Places visited, or contact AvastMH. Thank you

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Thank you for your help

From ronweil:
I would like to work on section C or D, but would prefer section D. Work in Libre Calc.

I can get the next section ready for you. Did you finish section A? Do you know how to upload it to your folder?

I didn't even start Section A. I saw the note that said that Sections A and B had been completed, please send whatever I need to work on. Boy, am I confused.

Hi Ronweil.
Arboggs has just taken over from a long serving OWr who ran the whaling section, she died just recently.
She is still trying to make Joans method work for her and she has a lot of ships to coordinate.
There is no very big hurry for the data so relax and all will work out soon.

Stuart.

I may be muddying the waters rather than helping, but maybe there is some confusion with the completed Mermaid 1896 which you both posted in earlier?

Ron, There is more than one person working per section. The section I sent you to work on was section A. If you have not completed it yet, then that is still your current assignment. No worries.

Stuart, Thank you.

Randi, don't worry about Mermaid. That's just where he first contacted me.

Where would I look to find the work you sent me?

Ron

The email I sent to you. You told me you received it.

OK, I found them log pages and I assume I start with April 12th, 1887, is that right? Where do I find my workbook?

Ron

i found the work sheets and I think I'm ready to get started after I read through evertything.

Ron