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    Recently with recreational boaters it seems that documenting your maritime experiences has fallen out of favor. MyShipLog.com is trying to change those attitudes with this website that takes a valuable nautical tool and brings it into the modern age.

    Nautical logbooks can be anything from a simple notebook to write down notes and ideas to logbook software that will store everything from fuel logs to fishing logs in an organized efficient manner. Paper logbooks have staying power but suffer from the fact that the information inside them is essentially useless except for looking for specific information about a particular date, they can't tell you what the average wind-speed or average wave-height for a given time period was without a lot of effort. Nautical logbook software can over come this problem by recording all this information into a database to be retrieved and reformatted in any way the users chooses which is nice but there is still a problem of not being able to document the mariners experiences from anywhere they choose. The traditional software logbook is tied to the computer it is installed on just as the paper logbook is tied to the pages in which the information is written. The major flaw with today's nautical logbooks is that they are only accessible from the place that they are physically located and this tends to make the logbook too confined and inaccessible, so we have tried to remedy this by offering a free online service to all boaters with this website. One of the advantages an online logbook has over other types of logbooks is that the boat's log information is stored on a land-based server which is accessible from anywhere at any time and it is also reassuring to a boater knowing that his vessels documentation is safe from water damages in case of an accident or disaster. Another advantage of an online logbook is that it can allow the boat owner to assign crew members who are able to contribute to the vessel's logbook from anywhere they wish, this helps document the experiences and adventures the boat's crew have and helps in creating those special memories that act like a family album for your boat. MyShipLog takes all the advantages of modern software version of a nautical logbook like reports and searches and combines them with the social and accessibility aspects of the the web to create a very useful tool.

    Beside being absolutely free to anyone, MyShipLog offers its members everything expected from a modern nautical logbook software package plus some very unique features that other logbooks don't offer. The service allows its members to create separate logbooks for as many boats as they wish, members can also assign crew members to each boat and also assign access privileges to each crew member ensuring that sensitive information can stay private without degrading the ability of the crew to contribute to the vessels logs, this allows for a socialization of the logbook, making the logbook a meeting point for the crew of a boat. Another problem with today's nautical logbooks is that once the boat is sold the logs usually stay with the previous owner thus the information gained from years of documentation is lost to the new owner. We solve this problem by allowing the previous owner the ability to transfer ownership of the logbook to the new owner combined with the ability to archive the logbook up to the time they are transfered so that the previous owner has a copy of their own experiences. This makes the logbook a valuable asset to the boat owner showing any potential buyer how well it was maintained and cared for and what upgrades have been preformed. Members can also not only share their logs with just crew members but if they wish they can allow their log entries to be posted on the home page of MyShipLog allowing anyone browsing the web to read and learn from their adventures thus making the ship's log entry an important and entertaining tool for everyone.