T&T: Logbooks

[Trawler336 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/30/2007 11:37:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Bucks2 at aol.com writes:

Did I miss something? I wasn't aware that a pleasure boater was  required to
keep an "official" log

Ahoy Ken & List,

This is an interesting thread.  I have been  driving a car for about 60 years
now, traveled all across our  country.  Yet I never thought for one moment to
record or log anything  pertaining to the auto trip, be just down the road
for groceries or  cross-country for a vacation.

The very first day that I bought my boat, I set up, my  then very new
spreadsheet program called Visi calc turned Lotus 123. and  entered everyday
the boat
has been underway.  Everything that pertained to  the trips was recorded.
Dates, From/To Locations, Time, Fuel, Weather,  Guest, Etc, Blah, Ad Nauseam.

The reason for my log keeping had nothing to do with  any legality, it  was
simply that it had been my dream to buy a boat,  cruise the day lights out of
it, and just treated it as an adventure.  It  took very little time to jot
each
item down and then entered it into the  P/C.  I started my journey back in
1990 as I trucked the boat from  California to Texas, cruising the waterways
until 2004.  Now, as I have  been less active, I find myself lately re-reading
the log and reliving  the adventure.

Just another point of view...

Ciao, Capt Joe





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