If you’re working towards an RYA or equivalent qualification, then you need to keep a log of all your miles, voyages, night hours, wind speeds, ports visited, boats sailed, trips as a skipper or as crew and days on-board. Even if you’re not working towards a qualification, you’ll want to keep a log so that one day if you do take the plunge to get your Day Skipper or Yacht Master tickets, you have a complete picture of your experience.

In addition, if you want to charter a yacht, the charter company, or owner of the yacht will want to see that you and your crew have enough experience. Think of chartering like hiring a car. With every car you hire you have to present your license, and with every charter you need to present your experience and if you have them, your qualifications.

My Boating Info has a CV module where you can log your Qualifications (inc. certificate number, date of issue, place of issue) and all your voyage details (inc. boats sailed, areas sailed in, miles, night hours, capacity in which sailing etc etc).

You can then view the overall summary (the module adds all voyages up for you) and create a pdf document as a sailing CV.

We have used the same fields for information as the RYA uses in their log books and the sailing CV provides the same information that Sunsail, one of the largest sailing schools and charter companies requests on their booking forms.

Use the Sailing CV module on My Boating Info and you’ll always have an up to date record and you’ll save time each time you charter a yacht – just create the pdf, print it, sign it and send it with your booking form. Easy.

Make sure you upload your certificates too. This way you’ll be able to find them easily and have back up copies if you lose them.