Logs run the gambit from a true "Log Book" (dry, factual prose stating position, weather and boat/crew condition) to journals with stories and impressions.
I tend to keep more of a journal, though I try to include "log" type entries. I try to record anything related to the boat, our journal or destination when we arrive, even if it only a 1 hour daysail. As my daughter (and then my son) learns to write, I will get her a journal to keep her own, as well, just as the old Midshipmen during the Great Age of Sail were required to keep.
So, I'm curious: what kind of log/journal do you keep?
I have two logs that I keep. One is a journal type log, and much of what is written in that is later re-written and posted to my blog. The other is a basic, factual, record book type journal.
I keep a log that includes weather, persons who went with me sailing, wind conditions and depth of water at the slip. Somewhere I downloaded a logbook from some web page in the Pacific Northwest. Can't remember where and I'll have to search for it on the hard drive.
Greg