Keeping a Log

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This has been posted on the MoBo Forum:

"I understand that by law you have to keep a paper record, it should be written live and in pencil with no rubbing out."

Can anyone confirm this legal obligation?
And more interestingly, what you personally do!
 
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There is no obligation for a British flagged yacht to keep a written log. Boats are occasionally fined for failing to do so in French waters (they have no legal right to impose their maritime laws on foreign flagged vessels but it doesn't stop them). They insist it is written in ink, not pencil.
 
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There is no obligation for a British flagged yacht to keep a written log.......

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I'm not quite sure this is actually the case. If this is being discussed on the Mobo forum I'l go over there and see what's being said. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
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I keep a log at the level of one line per day - a visitors book, really.
Who was onboard, destination, weather, distance, engine hours, fuel. etc.

Additional entries get made on a longer passage.

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This has been posted on the MoBo Forum:

"I understand that by law you have to keep a paper record, it should be written live and in pencil with no rubbing out."

Can anyone confirm this legal obligation?
And more interestingly, what you personally do!

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If you want to keep a legal record, then a leaf from the Commercial Shipping World may be the basis :

a) No loose leaf sheets / books. Pages to be bound as a permanent book.
b) All pages to be printed with consecutive numbers and none to be removed.
c) All entries in Ink and no erasures. Errors to have single line through and still readable and initialed by corrector.

But as yet - there are no legal reqt's in UK for pleasure boat to maintain a log.

Because it's not required - I therefore have a working sheet system in loose leaf folder. That's the immediate jot down sheet for nav working. Seen here when on Delivery :

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I also have a bound Log Book that has the daily entries made of relevant data.
For general notes and narrative - I use a Page-A-Day diary - this provides my archival reference and also assists in forum posts etc. Friend of mine also sticks in thumbnail size digi photos to similar for added content.
 
I stand corrected

"The Merchant Shipping (Official Log Book) Regulations 1981 make it a requirement for all United Kingdom ships (except fishing vessels, ships less than 25 tons, and pleasure vessels) to carry and keep an Official Log Book."
 
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I stand corrected

"The Merchant Shipping (Official Log Book) Regulations 1981 make it a requirement for all United Kingdom ships (except fishing vessels, ships less than 25 tons, and pleasure vessels) to carry and keep an Official Log Book."

[/ QUOTE ]Do you mean <u>registered</u> ships?
 
That conflicts with info just received from RYA Legal:

There is no obligation for UK pleasure boaters to keep any record apart from the Solas5 requirement to have a passage plan - and that doesn't have to be written down.

They declined to comment on French officialdom!
 
Even if its not a legal requirement its good practice, we keep a log every time we sail (apart from to the fuel pontoon), its also like the other chestnut, paper charts, not legal but you know it makes sense.
 
I was told that it's best to keep a log of a voyage in case of any 'incidents' which may occur, especially if they involve insurance claims.
I personaly do not keep a log if I am just daysailing in my local waters, but will do on longer passages.
 
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I was told that it's best to keep a log of a voyage in case of any 'incidents' which may occur, especially if they involve insurance claims.
I personaly do not keep a log if I am just daysailing in my local waters, but will do on longer passages.

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My question wasn't to deride the keeping of. I was looking for persons reasons for keeping. Mine is archive based. Interested to read others.
 
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I've always been a bit confused about whether I am obliged to keep one - let alone what I should actually put in it.

Currently, I log:

- intended passage detail
- crew on board
- depature time
- sea state
- visibiilty
- pressure
- wind speed and direction
- any key events / observations / repairs / modificatios / refuelling
- final destination and time of arrival.

Is that about right? Anything else I should include?
 
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