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 McCulloch — General for some general background and discussion.
See McCulloch — 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.

OW web site: McCulloch

Direct links:

• Tracker
• Spreadsheet
• File Upload
• Transcription Status

Caution!
When entering the date be sure to use the date for the day and not the date for the end of the week.

I have reserved 1915 and 1916 McCulloch.
--Greg

I've finished McCulloch 1915. I will start McCulloch 1916 in the next few days.

Great work, Greg! I'm involved in a special project for the science team, and I will start working on this when I've finished that project and done the calculations for Shenandoah.

Excuses, excuses, ....

Considering my hourly rate of pay, it's in my interest to stretch things out as long as possible...

Are you trying to tell me that if you multiply zero by a big enough number you will not get zero?

It's worth a try, IMHO.

Lang found the article Wreck of the Schooner "Great Bear" about some Arctic explorers that were rescued by the McCulloch in 1916!


August 22, Dutch Harbor — 5:30, Received order from fleet commander to recall medical officer and proceed to sea:
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August 25, Saint Matthew Island — 8 a.m. - Merid. Sighted signal pole, ensign flying:
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Cool find.

The voyage for 1916 has been done, with many thanks to Greg for his careful work. 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	2,072
Kts	2,063
Baro	2,095
Dry	2,092
Wet	1,503
Weather	2,050
Clouds	2,018
Amount	2,019
Total	15,912

McCulloch travelled a total of 13,040 miles.