T&T: Legal Logbook specifics

[Truelove39 at aol.com]

Hi  Larry - 
 
Here  is a hard bound book similar to, if not exactly the same as the deck 
and engine  log books I have seen and used on ships and other commercial  
vessels:
 
Record  S295-3R - Record ruled - 32 lines, 300 pages
WilsonJones
ACCO  USA, Inc.
Wheeling,  IL 60090
 
This  book is 8.5" x 11" but I think they are available in larger sizes. I 
bought two  of these expensive books 10 years ago specifically because I knew 
they'd be  "legal," however I always found them difficult to write in and so I 
use the  "Evergreen Pacific Common Sense" spiral bound book because it lays 
flat. It, too  has numbered pages. Nowadays, as Mike M suggested, I'd think that 
the  information stored in your track log would suffice to prove where you 
were and  when. At any rate, I don't worry too much about it, and I only log the 
date,  miles, engine hours, fuel and water aboard, departure time and arrival 
time  unless something important happens. I also log when crew signs on and 
off and  when clearing Customs.
 
On  ships, "rough" logs are kept in such books, the information contained 
therein is  transcribed daily into the "smooth" logs, engine and deck, by the 
Chief Engineer  and the Master, respectively. Each department also maintains a 
"Bell Log"  in which the time a bell is rung and answered is recorded. This 
latter  log has often been the bane of an engineer who failed to respond to a bell 
in  timely fashion when he was otherwise occupied and the ship was about to 
collide  (allide?) with something.
 
Regards,
 
John
"Seahorse"

> How about some specs for log books for 40-60 ft commercial  passenger 
boats? 
Or boats 40-60 ft in the coastal trade?  Those boats  are similar in size to 
pleasure  trawlers.





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