Rant: Can we do away with boat log books already?!
Seriously, what is the point of keeping an hourly log? "Oh so we can see where we were!" - Yeah, go look on your chart plotter! Does anyone really go and look at old coordinates in logs? I can understand for different shifts to have a log of unusual events like: at 1431 - spotted a square grouper at this location or 1612 - generator 1 shut down due to overheat, suspect impeller damaged etc... But why are we wasting time with logging idiotic things like hourly coordinates, speed, wind, barometric data etc, etc... on my boat, a lot of this data is complied in TimeZero when you hover the mouse over any point in the track. I can go back and look at all the details. I feel it is an absolute waste of time to keep a log book and is absolutely antiquated just like paper maps. Does anyone really look through their logs rather than just go to your digital chart plotter and look at the tracks?