Do you keep a log?

[Pelagic]

Originally Posted by chuckr

By the way one thing on keep a log. When we do long sails - ie overnight we log every 12 hours - when we did a 3 day sail from Russia to Ukraine we logged every 12 hours -

I don't understand the value of doing a log only once every 12 hrs?

I have a list of things to be checked every hour by the person on watch

Why not log those hourly checks as a verification along with the Standard sailing and motorsailing reports at the top of the hour?

It provides the next watch keeper with data and an official written handover of any concerns about the equipment.

I like to manage it so that the person who comes on watch talks to the person being relieved about any concerns....

Then .....the new person does the checklist BEFORE they relieve at the helm as watchkeeper.

That way, if you have a night traffic situation around change of watch, the new guy, perhaps still sleepy, does the safety checks and fills in the log first before taking over.
That 10-15 minute overlap doing the checks and log catches a lot of mistakes

[masonc]

Originally Posted by leftbrainstuff

I then have an AWS Lambda function

Of course you do. We should all keep a few around.

[GeneM]

I keep one in an old-time composition note book! It's mostly a maintenance journal, but is also for trips.

[chuckr]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

I don't understand the value of doing a log only once every 12 hrs?

I have a list of things to be checked every hour by the person on watch

Why not log those hourly checks as a verification along with the Standard sailing and motorsailing reports at the top of the hour?

It provides the next watch keeper with data and an official written handover of any concerns about the equipment.

I like to manage it so that the person who comes on watch talks to the person being relieved about any concerns....

Then .....the new person does the checklist BEFORE they relieve at the helm as watchkeeper.

That way, if you have a night traffic situation around change of watch, the new guy, perhaps still sleepy, does the safety checks and fills in the log first before taking over.
That 10-15 minute overlap doing the checks and log catches a lot of mistakes

I guess we are a bit different we have a crew of two - we do longer shifts at the helm - our 12 hours as been successful for us on long passages - why log position hourly? what does it add? and what safety would we be checking? We communicate at the change over on what is out there and take a look around including the wx and what they experienced while they had the helm .