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 Kearsarge: general for some general background and discussion.
See Kearsarge: 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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I've reserved this year.

January done and uploaded. Nothing but Shanghai.

I'm heading south from Vladivostok, so I should be in Shanghai in a day or two, my time.

Feb done and uploaded. Went from Shanghai to Hong Kong.

March done. Went to Manila, then left again.

April done. Hong Kong, Canton, Hong Kong again.

May complete. Back to Nagasaki.

June done, on to Kobe and Yokohama.

July done, Yokohama and Hakodate.

One thing I noticed a couple times: They mention bearings based on a point, but only leave a blank space where the point name should go!
For example, 16:00 on this page: https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 6_0039.JPG

So far, I've transcribed these as "? Point brg one point...", although it just occurred to me that perhaps I should leave a Transcriber Comment as well.

No need for a comment. What you did was just fine.