Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, knots, fathoms, courses steered, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
If the ship is not moving (e.g., at anchor), knots, fathoms, and courses steered do not need to be transcribed. In that case, the course is usually the ship's heading.

On the events page please enter: location information, sailing information, and any mentions of ice.
In general there is no need to include comments about the weather unless there is something unusual or extreme.
Comments about problems with or changes of the weather instruments are very rare but should be noted.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be transcribed, but if they are seen on the following days they don't have to be transcribed again. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings.
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 2).

Every page needs to have a date. The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Tuscarora: general for some general background and discussion.
See Tuscarora: 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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Reserved for Stuart

I am happy to do any others that cross the southern oceans.

We were thinking of you when we were looking for new ships. Sadly, not many spend much time in your area. Must be all the poisonous snakes and poisonous spiders.

Nice to be thought of.

Starting now.

Nice turn of phrase
2000-2400
Calm, clear and pleasant weather. Ship turning about unmindful of the helm, rolling deeply at times but without violence.

(Nice start to my first day on the ship.)

4th Jan page missing.

Why am I not surprised.

They changed from the Western Hemisphere
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to the Eastern Hemisphere
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Well so they did. That was sneeky of them.
Thanks Randi, I missed that, Must take more care to look out for the dashed line at sea.
Changing the presets now.

I guess you sailed through one of the gaps between the dashes

Mind you, I missed that, too. I looked just at the dates. Sometimes missing date shows up a day or so later. It also looked like a page was physically missing.

Levuka Fiji,
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0945 Mustered at quarters 13 men AWOL.

1600-2000 watch.
By order of the Commander confined the following
For being drunk and fighting 3 men,
Drunk and disrespectful, 1 man
insubordination, 3 men,
Drunk, fighting and abusive language, 1 man.

Just another day at the office.

Just another day on the Concord

Sadly, and how true...

23 Jan another 9 did not return from Liberty.
3 were returned by native police on the 24th
25th 2 more returned by native police just before we sailed for Brisbane.

No indication if previous AWOLs returned from the 17th.

The same thing was happening on Tuscarora 1863.