T&T: Logbooks

[Bob McLeran]

I purchase bound ledgers at Office Depot - don't have one here at my 
land home or I could give you the brand - nicely covered and good 
quality paper stock. Buy the size with the smaller number of pages 
(around 150-200) - they last a couple of years without getting unduly 
worn. The type I buy has two columns; the first is at the page left 
margin where I put the time; the second is the rest of the page where I 
put the comments I wish to make - anchor up and underway, fuel/engine 
info, course/speed (not very often in the ICW), anchor down, passing 
such and such object, waked by name of boat, observed sunset, etc. I 
normally head each day's entry with the date, location, weather and 
guest info. This is the "underway" log, not a maintenance log (for which 
I use electronic spreadsheets and word processing), but a few things 
like major maintenance items (replaced fuel tanks), fuel purchases and 
oil changes show up in the underway log as well as the main or genset 
diesel maintenance log.

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Bob McLeran and Judy Young                  Manatee Cove Marina
MV Sanderling                               Patrick Air Force Base
Defever 41 Trawler                          Melbourne, Florida 



On 12/2/2007 10:46 AM, Randy Pickelmann wrote:
> OK then.  Where does one find a pre-printed, pre-formatted, bound logbook with
> numbered pages?  Or do you go to the office supply and buy a bound ledger or
> journal?