T&T: Ships Log

[Jim Ague]

> What is required or recommended to be in the bound book log you
> describe?  I imagine my engine logs that I keep on the computer log
> may not be required in this bound book.  I figure the more specific I
> can be about what to enter, and what isn't required, the more likely
> it is to get done.  Buying a bound book and a pen is the easy part.
>
> Al wrote:
>> > A legal ship's log must be in a permanently bound book, written in
>> > ink, with no erasures, and initialed or signed entry by entry.
>
Rita and I go around on this all the time. I, being a computer engineer, use 
Excel and keep a decent log. She, being a paralegal, insists that it needs 
to be on paper, bound, etc. I compromise by saying OK I'll continue to use 
Excel in order to manage boat maintenance, you can use paper for the legal 
needs. So far we only have a log on the computer.

>From what I remember of software writing, one could develop a WORM (Write 
Once, Read Many) Word or Spreadsheet Processor. Maybe hidden in Word, Excel 
or one of the others this feature already exists. The feature being that the 
user could apped entries, but could not alter existing ones. The WORM 
document file would have to be encrypted such that it could not be decrypted 
and altered by a utility program.

-- Jim
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Jim & Rita Ague
M/V Derreen, Monk 36
Derreen lying Erie Canal, Lock #3, Waterford, NY
Jim & Rita lying San Francisco for a grandson baptism
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