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This forum post gives a flavor of what may be involved: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4421.0

That ship in their example,the Seneca (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., has a super interesting history: https://archive.org/details/logbookofsenecab00unse

i actually wanted to see what one had to do help and wanted to skim a howto... i noticed there's a tutorial link at the top but you have to sign in/up to see what's there.

what kind of scandalous mysteries are in that tutorial that require hiding it behind a login?

> what kind of scandalous mysteries are in that tutorial that require hiding it behind a login?

That's how you gather analytics. :)

Spencerian cursive is by far the least easily read script I've ever encountered.