Do you need a personal/boat logbook to do RYA/DOT Exams/Certificates???

I have all the logbooks at home. Since my first sailing course (CC circa 1980) I've only ever logged periods on board of over 24hours. The habit was started as I was aiming for my YM and that was the advice I was given by my instructor. Personally I reckon i'd have been better writing up my daysails as well as the "log" is the only place I recorded engine hours. I was heartily shamed last year when a guy who went for a weekend trip to Cherbourg with me showed me his "journal" which included sighting the space station passing overhead, including the ships position at the time and two passable pencil sketches of Barfleur and Cherbourg Harbour. I didn't even realise he was drawing at thew time.
 
Camelia said:
True, but a good question. Does my six hours and 25 nm on Sunday count as a day?
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I would say it does, Not that I am a reliable authority, 6 hours and 25 miles. Either makes a good days sailing for me. The OOW on a ship typically works 4 hrs on 8 hrs off two 4 hour watches and he calls it a days sea time.
 
An old thread but interesting none the less.

I never kept a personal of the RYA Log. I do Have a Canadian YA log with no entries, other than certifications or courses completed. individual voyages I never logged. I regret this now, most of my experience was on other peoples boats.
I still don't have a personal Log book. My old boats log was a haphazard thing kept occasionally.
We keep a boat log, Its a mixture of numeric time and positional entries and narrative of our day more like a diary than a pukka ships log. I like looking back through it from time to time. I wish i had kept beterr records of those voyages I did long ago. It just didn't seam important when I was young and active.

When adding up my days and mileage at current rate, its not very impressive.
 
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