by Denny » August 8, 2020, 4:35 pm
Ok boatnerds here’s some more information for you as far as my records and record keeping goes as some have asked in the past. A couple of nights back I stayed up half the night to work on my record keeping via my Excel Spreadsheet for doing it. I have a tablet or log book as I like to call it to where I have a few of the companies listed. I check them off one by one whenever I have a particular fleet done like ASC, Interlake or GLF and others. It took me under 3 hours in fact 2 3/4 hours to get what I call the main event if you will list done which includes most of the major U.S. and Canadian fleets. Then, I spent an additional 40 minutes working on salties afterward. So, I started working on the list around I would say 3 A.M. and by 7 A.M. I was beat as you might imagine and so I went back to bed. I have come to a conclusion that I have to get my list somehow started every night between 9-10 p.m. on the main event list if you will as that one takes 3 hours to do give or take. The salties I can generally get done in just under an hour. So again back to the main event list as I call with the U.S. and Canadian firms. It’s a two part list and part two is the easiest as that takes just under an hour for me to do. Plain and simple boatnerds, less boats and ships in a fleet means less time to spend on that firm like CML right now has the Block out only. The fleets that are the most work is Algoma, along with CSL and also Desgagnes and McKeil Marine as those fleets have more vessels thus it takes longer to do. I can say like for McKeil, it takes about 10 minuets to run thru them. However, Algoma and CSL is about 15 so add the two together and then you get 30 minutes plus the 10 minutes on the McKeil fleet and there’s my long work load. It has its ups and its downs and I have my moments not good ones quite often I would say! So now you have an idea hopefully of how much work I spend on it. Very tiring and frustrating at times for me and it sure wears me down!
Ok boatnerds here’s some more information for you as far as my records and record keeping goes as some have asked in the past. A couple of nights back I stayed up half the night to work on my record keeping via my Excel Spreadsheet for doing it. I have a tablet or log book as I like to call it to where I have a few of the companies listed. I check them off one by one whenever I have a particular fleet done like ASC, Interlake or GLF and others. It took me under 3 hours in fact 2 3/4 hours to get what I call the main event if you will list done which includes most of the major U.S. and Canadian fleets. Then, I spent an additional 40 minutes working on salties afterward. So, I started working on the list around I would say 3 A.M. and by 7 A.M. I was beat as you might imagine and so I went back to bed. I have come to a conclusion that I have to get my list somehow started every night between 9-10 p.m. on the main event list if you will as that one takes 3 hours to do give or take. The salties I can generally get done in just under an hour. So again back to the main event list as I call with the U.S. and Canadian firms. It’s a two part list and part two is the easiest as that takes just under an hour for me to do. Plain and simple boatnerds, less boats and ships in a fleet means less time to spend on that firm like CML right now has the Block out only. The fleets that are the most work is Algoma, along with CSL and also Desgagnes and McKeil Marine as those fleets have more vessels thus it takes longer to do. I can say like for McKeil, it takes about 10 minuets to run thru them. However, Algoma and CSL is about 15 so add the two together and then you get 30 minutes plus the 10 minutes on the McKeil fleet and there’s my long work load. It has its ups and its downs and I have my moments not good ones quite often I would say! So now you have an idea hopefully of how much work I spend on it. Very tiring and frustrating at times for me and it sure wears me down!