Captain Larry
Veteran Member
Greetings. Just curious as to how many of you are using electronic logbooks, and if so, which ones? And of course, how well do you like them? I recently purchased Boating Suite, which I purchased without really reading the specs on the app. It is multi-faceted and offers a trip log, fuel log, expense log, maintenance log, vessel log, shopping list, a "to do" list, as well as several types of reports for these things. It is easy to use and for only five bucks, a steal, especially when compared to the effort of building my own on Access or Excel.
The downside is that it is strictly a mobile app and can't be used on a PC or Mac. That's the part I didn't read well enough. I'm so used to being able to store stuff on the "cloud," or at least backing up from one device to another, that I never gave it a second thought.
It loaded on my iPhone 6 easily and is a delight, except for the aforementioned perceived shortcoming. I probably should add that I've lost one phone overboard, and went swimming with another (quite unintentionally while boarding the dinghy with a case of beer!) The thought of losing all my logs in such a clumsy manner is not pleasant.
Any success stories out there with electronic logs?
The downside is that it is strictly a mobile app and can't be used on a PC or Mac. That's the part I didn't read well enough. I'm so used to being able to store stuff on the "cloud," or at least backing up from one device to another, that I never gave it a second thought.
It loaded on my iPhone 6 easily and is a delight, except for the aforementioned perceived shortcoming. I probably should add that I've lost one phone overboard, and went swimming with another (quite unintentionally while boarding the dinghy with a case of beer!) The thought of losing all my logs in such a clumsy manner is not pleasant.
Any success stories out there with electronic logs?