Milage

[steveej]

Quick question.

A 20 mile coastal passage from one town to the next in the Bristol Channel, in a Dinghy!

Would you log this as a passage in your logbook? You definately would in a yacht, but what about a dinghy?

 

[sailorman]

I would not log it in my yacht, might plot on a chart

 

[alahol2]

I 'log' all my trips. More of a journal to be precise but also containing positions, courses, weather etc if the trip demands it. I've now got journals going back over 30 years and more. They make interesting reading on the occasional times that I get one down. So, yes, log it and keep it for your later years (or even later years as the case may be).

 

[prv]

I suspect you might be talking about an RYA logbook rather than a navigational log?

It's up to you (I have one, but haven't written in it for years) but there's no reason why not. If you generally log your yacht sailing, then stick it in - if nothing else it might start an interesting conversation down the line.

Pete

 

[sailorman]

I 'log' all my trips. More of a journal to be precise but also containing positions, courses, weather etc if the trip demands it. I've now got journals going back over 30 years and more. They make interesting reading on the occasional times that I get one down. So, yes, log it and keep it for your later years (or even later years as the case may be).

we keep a diary

 

[stranded]

We don't keep anything.

 

[prv]

We don't keep anything.

Neither do I any more. I can't think of anything a dutifully filled-in RYA logbook would get me that a two-sentence description of my sailing habits wouldn't. And for navigational purposes I record position/time/log/course directly on the chart.

In principle I approve of the idea of a diary-style logbook recording past holidays, but in practice I'd probably not bother to fill it in.

The nearest I get to that is a framed chart of the Channel, to which I stick a little red arrow each time we visit a new port

Pete

 

[Spirit of Glenans]

Noting that the thread is entitled "Mileage", it might be assumed that the OP is keeping a log in order to qualify for an RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster -type assessment, in which case, IMHO, it is a bona fide passage and should be logged.

 

[theoldsalt]

Quick question.

A 20 mile coastal passage from one town to the next in the Bristol Channel, in a Dinghy!

Would you log this as a passage in your logbook? You definately would in a yacht, but what about a dinghy?

If you keep a log for your dinghy - yes.

It would be inappropriate in your yacht log though, IMO.

P.S. Are you sailing, motoring or rowing the dinghy?

 

[maby]

I wouldn't - only make log entries on passages where I might be in need of them to allow me to fall back to paper chart navigation if all the electronics fails simultaneously. A 20 mile coastal hop like that will be navigated visually with reference to the charts anyway.