hat Samuel Pepys made famous, has the chart plotter finally killed off? I’m talking about dairies, or as we seafarers prefer to call them, ‘logs’. Historians tell us that the daily jottings that Pepys maintained for 10 years starting in 1660, are an important source of understanding, and open a window onto a world which would otherwise have remained shuttered. Diaries are what give colour to an otherwise black and white view of history; the diaries churned out my everyone from actors, to politicians, to
