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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Tue Jun 07 2005 - 08:41:22 EDT
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:56:31 -0700, you wrote:
>
>do folks on list keep regular logbookss when sailing? it seems a good
The PO kept a maintenance log. He put in it all the stuff he did to
the boat. He kept it in a cardboard composition book. We tried to
emulate that, but it was difficult because I kept the log and Bob did
the maintenance. So eventually because my asking him questions all
the time was irritating, I gave up. He does something now, but I'm
not sure what. I know he keeps a record of the engine hours since the
last oil change, and he writes down the amount of water and fuel in
the tanks (using the tank tender) every days.
I do keep a log when we are out more than just going across the
Potomac.
>habit to me (electronics do fail after all). am I the only person to have
>come up with the idea of having a custom rubber stamp made with the basic
>"form" for a log entry, so that any blank book can be made into a logbook?
>
>if any of you have designed your own logbook entry forms, what data did
>you find it useful/interesting to record?
Bob had a pre and post cruise checklist which he made up which among
other things had the engine hours on it. We punched holes in them and
kept them in a loose leaf notebook. I'm not wild about the loose leaf
style.
The first year down the ICW, but I did kept a kind of diary on a lined
pad. When we are offshore at night and Bob is on watch, he plots the
position about every half hour on the chart in the cockpit.
The second year, I tried to do a systematic log with the lat long,
speed from the knot meter (speed through the water), SOG from the GPS,
number of miles traveled, ICW mile marker, wind speed and direction,
etc. I took the readings about every hour. I kept it in a blank
spiral bound book which was meant for tracking projects so it had a
place for the dates and I also made a spreadsheet for the computer to
put the data into.
But this was a PITA and I didn't see that it really made much sense to
do as I'm not going for my six pack license or anything, and it didn't
really IMHO add much to our safety.
The disadvantage of the first two methods is that the pad could have
the pages torn off, and the project book had the pages scored so that
they could be torn out (without leaving ragged edges) and I wanted
something that was more permanent. So the next year I got a hardbound
accounts book. It says "Record" on the front and spine and has 200
numbered pages. It is lined with a margin line down the left side.
I write the date in the left margin, and on the top line write the
geographic location. Then under that I write the time of the entry in
the margin, and whatever interesting things that happen in the main
part of the page, including the mileage we've gone by that time, our
speed as above, where we are (like ICW mile marker or bridge or
whatever), the names of whatever boats pass us or that we pass, and
the people that we meet etc. This means I can check back and see how
long it took us to transit a particular part of the waterway.
At the end of the day, I write the total day's trip mileage (and in
the ICW I write it in statue miles), the total mileage for the whole
trip in nm, the average speed in mph (in the ICW), the elapsed time,
the time underway (i.e. not counting waiting at bridges etc), the
maximum speed (in mph in the ICW) all of which I get from the GPS, and
the number of engine hours.
I then reset one of the GPSs so that we start the next day with zero.
The other one I leave the mileage in nm on it so that we have the
total trip mileage.
Inside the front cover I list the dates, the place that we stayed at
night, the page number of the book where that narrative is located,
and the number of miles that we've done that day. I use that record
to write up emails to the family, and also to plan what we might want
to do when we go back to that area again.
I also keep another kind of record - I get a small notebook of some
kind, and into it I staple all the receipts we get for restaurants,
fuel, marina dockage - every penny we spend. Then I put that
information all into a spreadsheet.
When I have time I put all the more interesting information along with
photographs into a kind of trip diary on the internet, on a site
called Virtual Tourist with all the places linked together with
clickable links. I put the list of places on my home page (link
below my signature).
So if didn't want to read the whole three years, but just wanted to
know about - say - St. Augustine (with some incidental pictures of
BANDERSNATCH), you can click on the link for December 8, 2000 or 2001
March 17-21, or November 25-26, 2001, or March 17-19, 2002, or 2003.
Nov 25-27 (Thanksgiving). We were also there April 7, 2004
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/51d97/#TL, and by car January
17, 2005 http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/5faba/#TL including a
visit to the Castillo although the 2005 trip hasn't really been
written up yet. There's some lag time for these write ups as it takes
me some time to do.
grandma Rosalie
http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/
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