Boat Log & Record The Perfect Small Craft Record Keeper for Cruises, Expenses and Maintenance

by Bree, Marlin

• ISBN13: 9781892147288
• ISBN10: 1892147289
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-12
• Publisher: Marlor Press

Summary

Designed for owner-skippered, small and midsize craft, this expanded and updated log book and organizer helps amateur boaters maintain detailed, permanent records of essential information about their vessels. As useful on a day trip as it is on a weekend jaunt or a recreational cruiseand for skippers of sail boats as it is for those of power craftsthis carefully structured handbook serves as one central source that when completed becomes not only a comprehensive legal record but a memento of a cruising year. Divided into 10 sections, the contents cover such topics as getting organized through accumulating basic boat specifications, equipment maintenance records, and detailed contact information for suppliers, as well as chapters on setting chore and watch procedures, route and passage reporting, and GPS waypoints and additional sections on emergency preparedness, expense and supply tracking, and capturing memories.

Author Biography

Marlin Bree is a nationally recognized small craft sailor, an award-winning marine journalist, and a two-time winner of the Boating Writers International Grand Prize Writing Award. He is a former magazine editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a past president of the Minnesota Press Club, and a contributor to publications such as Cruising World, DIY Boat Owner, the Ensign, Good Old Boat, and Lakeland Boating. He is the author of several boating books, including Broken Seas, The Dangerous Book for Boaters, In the Teeth of the Northeaster, and Wake of the Green Storm. He lives in Shoreview, Minnesota.