Log Books

[erps]

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.

[catamount]

Originally Posted by LarryandSusanMacDonald

I'm curious - is the U.S. one of those signatory nations

Yes.

The "Garbage Disposal" and "Oil Discharge Prohibited" placards that we are all required to have (and if longer than 12 meters, the written "Waste Management Plan") are one result.

[AtlanticBryan]

Why not design your own? That's what I did. I used MS Word to design a table with the headings and columns I wanted, then had my local print shop print it off. They gave me two 200 page logs, 8-1/2 by 14 landscape formate, coil bound, for less than $50.