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- Sun May 19, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: USS Yantic
- Topic: Yantic (1866): links, questions, comments, coordination, ... NONSTANDARD
- Replies: 3
- Views: 350
Re: Yantic (1866): links, questions, comments, coordination, ... NONSTANDARD
The voyage for 1866 has been completed in record time. They went from Charleston to the Norfolk Navy Yard with stops in Port Royal and Beaufort Harbor and they did minimal weather observations only every four hours, making the voyage calculations very quick and easy. You can see a plot of the voyage...
- Sun May 19, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: USS Kearsarge
- Topic: Kearsarge (1891): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 731
- Sun May 19, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 268584
Re: Chat
Thank you, it went as well as a 15 hour flight can go. We must have had great winds because we got to YVR an hour ahead of schedule. It meant I could sit in an airport lounge for an extra hour waiting for my 10 minute flight home to YYJ.
- Sat May 18, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: USS Lackawanna
- Topic: Lackawanna (1863): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1764
- Sat May 18, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: USS Lackawanna
- Topic: Lackawanna (1866): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 76
- Views: 6984
Re: Lackawanna (1866): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
It's in the queue after Yantic 1866 and 1869.
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 268584
Re: Chat
Very interesting.
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 295
- Views: 2580
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 295
- Views: 2580
- Thu May 16, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: USS Sacramento (Gunboat)
- Topic: Sacramento (1923): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2136
- Wed May 15, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: USS Sacramento (Gunboat)
- Topic: Sacramento (1923): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2136
- Tue May 14, 2024 11:59 pm
- Forum: USS Yantic
- Topic: Yantic (1876): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 552
Re: Yantic (1876): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
That's the way to do it. Mind you, it's always difficult to tell just what these guys were thinking. When I was on a three month course to be a weather observer in 1971, we were taught how to print numbers and letters so that they were always legible, and so that they were always easily distinguisha...
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 295
- Views: 2580
Re: Weather history miscellany
https://i.cbc.ca/1.7201766.1715481672!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/wildfires-bc-20240511-fort-nelson.jpg The fire is being held 2.5 km from the town. High winds, which were forecast to push the fire into the town yesterday, did not materialize. All but about 50 people from ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: USS Lackawanna
- Topic: Lackawanna (1866): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 76
- Views: 6984
- Sat May 11, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 268584
Re: Chat
Rain here.
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: The voyages, the work, the people, the places
- Topic: Weather history miscellany
- Replies: 295
- Views: 2580
- Thu May 09, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: USS Kearsarge
- Topic: Kearsarge (1880): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1087
- Thu May 09, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Zooniverse, BOINC, and other citizen science/humanities news
- Topic: Zooniverse
- Replies: 4
- Views: 131
- Thu May 09, 2024 1:28 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 268584
Re: Chat
Saving stranded Orcas with whale songs.
How broadcasting the familiar calls of female killer whales saved two males from starvation in an isolated Alaska lagoon.
How broadcasting the familiar calls of female killer whales saved two males from starvation in an isolated Alaska lagoon.
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2631
- Views: 268584
Re: Chat
Happy Birthday, d0cent!
- Wed May 08, 2024 5:50 am
- Forum: USS Yantic
- Topic: Yantic (1869): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 471