Surely the question is more about about a personal log?
In which case Yes - you should keep a log of all trips/experiences. It
should include miles, whether tidal or not and how many night hours and
of course from where to where and be signed off by the skipper
(yourself if you are the skipper) The purpose of the log is to
demonstrate your experience - not for any legal reasons but simply when
you come to charter or take any practical exams to show that you are a
crew/skipper of some worth. In the UK the RYA issue all our
certificates for leisure sailing and practical exams need to be backed
up by experience such as this log would show. Look at www.rya.org

I mean of course www.rya.org.uk

The exams and courses from the RYA are some of the best in the world
and are recognised world wide. Where are you based?

Cheers

Grant

Jinx wrote:
...Can you buy proper log books? if so where from


I did some asking-around and researching recently and came to the
conclusion similar to what Gary said in a previous post re 3 logbooks
if you own a boat. However as a crewmember I found that it will depend
on where you're heading ie 'commercial' or 'recreational', as well as
whether you intend to be recognised internationally or just locally.

I opted for a British-based RYA logbook (see other posts above) for my
recreational sailing even though I currently sail in Australia (and
just did a Vanuatu-to-Aust as my first international). This is for
being recognised internationally (and I pained over it because we sail
in quite challenging and hostile waters of Bass Strait, tidal waters
and treacherous entrances and yet are not as recognised for it). It
isn't ideal because RYA logbooks do not allow entries of less than 24
hrs each day and my certifications are by Australian non-RYA trainers.
So I plan to continue using RYA just for the international recognition
as well as get a logbook (I have seen A4 size log books) that I will
record every journey and get signed by skippers. Info will be:

date, from-to ports, vessel (size, make, model), weather and seas
condition, distance logged (not just rhumb line dist), position (eg
foredeck/bowman), comment, signature+name.

If you aim for a commercial destiny the logbook will be for Coxswain,
Master 5 etc. There is another I can't recall just at the moment. If I
end up there I will use my extensive logbook to track down signatures
for entry in any new required logbook.

Hope this helps.

Solo Thesailor
http://sailingstoriesnadtips.blogspot.com

ray lunder wrote in
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I think the authorities want to track
boat movement.

It's not just boats.....The Illuminati want to track everyone.

You'll be RFID implanted as a child....and never told.
Current adults who resist will simply disappear.
http://www.oilempire.us/rfid.html
http://tinyurl.com/efu9f
http://www.greaterthings.com/news/Ch...nts/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/07/10/rfid/index.html

RFID Gazette. It even has its own magazine....
http://www.rfidgazette.org/2004/06/rfid_101.html

Your bank account will be the first thing that won't work without it as
the Illuminati's Federal Reserve already has a firm control on all the
banking systems and is tracking every dollar. If you refuse to have the
chip implanted, you'll simply be denied access to banks and money. This
will include your credit cards and debit cards and, probably, access to
loans. Your credit card will be phased out when you go into the
Illuminati Implant Station as the "debit register" (cash having been also
eliminated) at Denny's already had accessed your RFID on the way in to
check your account to see if you could afford breakfast. As you leave,
it will, automatically without you even having to stop at the register,
debit your account for breakfast and tip. Your car will start in the
parking lot as you approach, having recognized you as its user. The State
will, of course, finally say you don't own the car as you must pay them a
fee to use it every year...private ownership being the fantasy it is now.
No RFID? No transportation.

All buildings will be fitted with RFID readers at all entrances. No
RFID, no access. Wrong RFID, no access and your attempt to enter will be
reported to the Illuminati for further prosecution. Obviously, you
didn't belong. The "gated community" won't be for the rich, it'll be for
everyone. Don't forget to call your friends before attempting to enter
their neighborhood and have them get permission from the Illuminati so
you'll be allowed to enter without being arrested. You'll soon remember.
Maybe you can get on the access database if you go there a lot. You'll
have a reason why, of course, you know, for the forms.

You won't be allowed in the marina parking lot or on the docks if you're
not on the Marina Access Database. Don't just drive up to the gas docks,
either, without permission or the head scanner at the gas dock will warn
security.

George Orwell had the date wrong. Stupid Nazis only tattooed their
victims, making it hard to track them.

Larry wrote:
It's not just boats.....The Illuminati snip

Larry you crack me up!

All of your kidding aside though, you don't need to find some mysterious
"Illuminati" for those whacky ideas, politicians of all ilks have been
bandying those ideas about for decades, and some have tried (and some
are still trying) to pass parts of those ideas in Congress. And they get
pretty creative when trying to justify doing it.

Ah well, if ya can't get an honest job, you can always be a politician.

Sailaway wrote in news:zs8Hg.441$Sw3.201
@newsfe11.lga:

Larry you crack me up!


I've never considered the cultist control of our governments much of a
joke, myself.

I'm just tired of voting for the freemason of THEIR choice.....

--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

Funny.. I was going to post a link to a guy's site where he had made an
RFID zapper out of one of those disposable flash cameras. Got a 404
error... page not found. Wonder if HE can be found any longer...