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Old 04-22-2008
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However, if you can go back for months and years and show that everytime you anchored you wrote in when the anchor light was turned on, and when it was turned off in the morning and each page is signed by the Captain - it is more likely to be believed.
I think we're still too hung up on the legal document aspect. A properly signed, notarized, sealed in evidence bags type log book isn't worth a darn to a skipper if it doesn't have the type of information the skipper may need to look up some time in the future.

Heck, I have drawings of different anchorages I've been to in my logbook and it's probably on an unsigned page. Does anyone really think that matters on a dark stormy night when you're ducking into that anchorage again? I'm not saying don't sign the pages if you want to, just that it really doesn't add any value to the information.
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