Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (knots 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 Manning -- General for some general background and discussion.
See Manning -- Examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See the Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

OW web site: Manning

Direct links:

• Tracker
• Spreadsheet
• File Upload
• Transcription Status

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I will do this one.

I've marked it reserved. And I'm just getting your just finished Manning 1903.

June done and uploaded - first ice I've seen in quite a while!

They must be moving more north. The ones I've done so far has them motoring along the Aleutian Islands.

July done as well. Last week or so took a while, as they went to Vancouver via the inside route.

That's the last upload of 2020!

August complete. Some travel to St. Paul and St. George, doing same stuff as always.

Just one month left!

I'm just finishing Northwind, 1949. Bear 1921 and Manning 1915 are in the queue. I'm being blessed with an abundance of riches...

September complete. She returned to Port Townsend.
This year is done, and it looks like my time on the Manning is too - she is apparently good for Burton Island graduates, so I will be moving to the Atalanta.

The voyage for 1905, with many thanks to Hanibal for his brilliant work. You can see a plot of the voyage here or, for more detail, you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth.