Even if you are a daysailor or weekender only, it is great to keep a log book that details each day of fun that you have aboard your boat. Your adventures, misadventures, maintenance, destinations, guests, etc. The above photo shows my logbooks for Snickerdoodle - beginning on a rainy May 3, 1985 when we launched her brand-new at Bayview Idaho... and ending (so far)on a winter day with bald eagles around, December 26,2016 - - in the 2016 three-ring binder full of daily notes.
I like to keep track of Snickerdoodle's beginning-of-the-year status on my first "writing" page. Things like:
Name
of Yacht: Your Boat’s Name
Owner: Your Name
Type
of Yacht: Manufacturere
& Length
Hailing
Port: Where You Sail
From Most Of The Time
Designer: Who Designed Your Boat
Builder: Your Boat’s
Manufacturer
Year
Built: Year Built & Year Purchased:
Hull
Number: The Hull Identification
Number on the Transom
Length: ___ feet Beam: ___ feet Draft: ___
feet
Vertical
Clearance: ___ feet
Sails: What Sails Are On The Boat
Engine: Brand, Horse Power, Shaft Length, Year
Manufactured
Tankage: Fuel
___ gal main tank, ___gal backup tank - - Water
___ gal - - Porta-Potty or Marine
Head
Auxiliary
Equipment – 2-Way Radios, Depth Sounder, GPS, Stove, etc
Hull
Color: What Color Is The Hull
Radio
Call Sign: If Federally Registered
Insurance: Who Is Your Insurance Agent, Phone, Address
Other:
Dinghy, Micro Wave Oven, etc
Start
of Log: January
1, 2017 Log of Daily
Experiences, ___ year.
Then, I have a two-page "section" that is designated for each day that I am aboard.- - even if I am aboard only for a few hours.
TODAY’S CRUISE
Day & Date
________________________________
Planned Destination ______________________________________
Time From Time ___________________
Time Till _____________________
Skipper & Crew _________________________________________________
Guests _______________________________________________________
Weather
Conditions_________________________________Temp_____________
Wind______________Humidity____________Barometer_________________
What We Ate
________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Who We Met
__________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Comments
____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
The comments continue onto the next page as well.
I print the pages on both sides to save paper... So, page 1 is the front of page 2... and so on...
I also print photos that I snap during the year and add them to the log-book. It is really fun to go back and read and enjoy entries from the past.
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