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Peregrine
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Initially Posted - 10/24/2009 :  12:43:41  Show Profile  Visit Peregrine's Homepage
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="2"><font color="blue">How do you keep your ships log?
Does anyone use MS Excel?
If so did you build your own or use a template?

I am looking to log the following;

Date
Time left
Time back (or to destination)
Time sailing
Accumulated hours (days) sailing)
Engine hours
Accumulated Engine hours
Weather
With a place for misc notes

I am looking build an MS Excel spreadsheet that will calculate the times and carry the accumulated times over.
Anyone that versed in spreadsheets?</font id="blue"></font id="size2"></font id="Comic Sans MS">

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 10/24/2009 :  17:12:41  Show Profile
I have all of the following laid out in a MS Word document using tables. The formatting won't show up here but, the various topics are:

Souls on Board: Date:
Captain:
Crew/Guests:
Sailing Conditions
Temperature: Wind Speed: Gusts: Direction:
Visibility/Ceiling:
Water Temperature: Wave height/Interval:
Sails:
Motor Use:
Itinerary: Departure Time Arrival Time
Destination/route:
Distance traveled:
Journal:
Maintenance issues:

This is all laid out to take up a single page. I had the pages bound at Kinko's (or somesuch place)
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 10/24/2009 :  18:01:50  Show Profile
I use a spiral bound "Ships Log" I picked up at WM. Has all types of areas for documentation.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 10/24/2009 :  19:00:52  Show Profile
My wife bought me a looseleaf binder type book called "Ship's Log" with pages containing many of the fields listed above, for example:
Departure Port (Name, Lat, Long), Port of Call, miles, routes, directions, hours under sail, left and right engines hours under power, gas usage, weather, winds and waves, water temps, persons on board and notes.

If I ever run out of pages, I can always make a bunch of copies of an unused page page and insert them into the binder.
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 10/25/2009 :  16:12:29  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Latest issue of Sail Magazine, they have a short article regarding keeping a sail log/journal on a ? Think it was an Ipod but can't recall. It mentioned that after entering info, you could also EMail it to someone.
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jerlim
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Response Posted - 10/25/2009 :  18:06:30  Show Profile
John - I'm pretty well versed in the dark arts of excel...send me what you've done and let me know how you want it to tally...you can reach me directly at jerlm@aol.com.
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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 10/26/2009 :  11:01:59  Show Profile  Visit aeckhart's Homepage
Four items you want to keep in any log are course, speed, barometric temp, and navigation notes. If you are suddenly fogged in and you lose your electronics you'll want to know these things. Similarly, sudden a rapid changes in the barameter indicate nasty weather is immenant. The notes are used to record such navigation things as changes in course and the time or other naviagation issues. These are important safety items. Information on passengers should be kept in a separate log.Of course, if you're only day sailing they may be superfluous. Extended trips over long distance and requiring navigation skills should include them.
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JimB517
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Response Posted - 10/26/2009 :  11:31:05  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
The only thing I routinely log are maintence items. It is great to have a record of when you changed the oil, put in those new batteries, renewed running rigging, or took delivery of the new sails. I do this in a 99 cent notebook I keep on board. This is a great place to write down things like the proper Loos settings for your shrouds.

On long voyages, like my vacation with a 12 to 15 hour offshore passage, I like to make regular log entries of the type you are talking about. I do this in the same notebook.

time course speed wind seas weather lat long comments
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piseas
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Response Posted - 10/26/2009 :  16:03:06  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
I have not found a "Ships Log" app for my Iphone, probably no money in it. I have sailed with several who do keep them on their boat and log everything. But like Jim mentioned, keeping maintenance records is critical. Personally I dont use one, except for maintenance.
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 10/26/2009 :  16:10:22  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
The Sail Mag article I mentioned in an above response is a ship's log application for the IPhone. The article is only a paragraph long on pg 20 of the Nov issue. The app is called JourSail. It cost $5.99. The link for it is http://www.joursail.com/index_en.html .
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