Log

 

• a. A device trailed from a ship to determine its speed through the water.
• b. A record of a ship’s speed, its progress, and any shipboard events of navigational importance.
• c. The book in which this record is kept.

 

logbook

 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, sunny days in Ganges, Salt Spring Island and Burgoyne Bay, Salt Spring Island (love the place and its energy).

On the 8th day of March 2012 at 18.00 hours (1 hour into the outgoing tide) sailed on a starboard tack out of Burgoyne and used the 2.45 knots current in the Sansum Narrows pushing the Puffin South (at 19.00 hours coming around Separation Point). Tied up alongside the Blue Eagle out on the north end of Cowichan Bay for coffee break. With only a small jib sail the two vessels combined as one unit still made headway even against the outgoing tide. 20.30 hours back on the buoy.

Remarks: Could not tack due to an error made when reapplying the turnbuckles to my stays on the larboard. Instead of having the sheets on port go around the outside of the stays…Well, in modern English: I fucked up and have to do the job again…

It can still get pretty cold out on the water at night, but not as bad as in this picture, taken in the middle of winter a few years back.

Friday 9th, Saturday 10th, Sunday 11th of March 2012:  berthed in Cowichan Bay.

Cleaned up and scrubbed the deck, dried up (bedroll and bedding are hard to keep dry in the rainy season), straightened out the starboard sheet, retied preventer stays.

Remarks: Puffins mooring buoy (seen in pic above) broke of its anchorage,there is never a dull moment.Thank God I noticed it before the boat could drift off or got beached.

• log                                                         the book in which a record is kept.             
• tack                         the direction that a boat is sailing with respect to the wind. A sailboat cannot sail directly into the wind, and must therefore sail a zig zag course to windward, at about a 45 degree angle to the wind
• starboard tack       with the wind coming from starboard and the boom on the port side. If two boats under sail are  approaching the one on port tack must give way to the boat on starboard tack.
• headway                                              the forward motion of a boat through the water.
• buoy                            an anchored float marking a position or for use as a mooring.
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• stays                                    all part of the standing rigging (ropes or wires fixed in position and used to support and strengthen other structures).
• forestay, backstays, bobstay, jumper stay, preventer stay 
• port                        Same as port and indicated by red running lights.            
• larboard          (from laden or the loaded side)  the left side when looking ahead.

• Jib Sheet                        the lines that lead from the clew of the jib to the cockpit and are used to control the jib.
• clew                                               the lower aft corner of a fore and/or main sail.
• jib                                   foremost sail; a triangular shaped sail forward of mast.
• turnbuckles                                 a threaded, adjustable fitting. It is used to                tension on standing rigging. Can also be used to pull objects together.
• heave the log                                                     has nothing to do with a book, but a line tied to a float, used to measure the speed of a ship.