Check lists
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Cruising Checklist - check that your boat has these items
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1=Daysailing 2 =Cruising(day only) 3=Cruising(day & night) 4 =Offshore |
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Personal
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Safety harness for each person |
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Personal strobe light for each person |
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Whistle for each person |
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Rigging knife on lanyard |
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Vessel Equip |
First Aid Kit & Manual |
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Watertight flashlight with bulbs & batteries |
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Radar reflector |
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Boarding ladder |
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Jack lines |
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Emergency Equip |
Emergency steering device |
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Heavy weather jib |
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Storm jib |
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Mainsail reefing ( to 40% min) |
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Tools & Spare parts |
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Marine radio transceiver (VHF) |
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Marine SSB radiotelephone (recommended) |
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Weather receiving radio |
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EPIRB 121.5 or 406 mHz (406 must be registered) |
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Life raft with current inspection certificate |
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Inflatable or rigid dinghy |
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Emergency abandon ship bag with extra lifejackets |
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Emergency food & water supply |
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Tapered soft wood plugs at each thru hull |
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Navigation Equip |
Marine compass with deviation card |
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Lead line or echo sounder |
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Spare compass, may be hand held |
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Navigation charts of cruising area |
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Navigation plotting equipment |
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Accurate timepiece with sweep second hand |
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List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals |
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Sailing Directions |
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Tide & Current Tables for cruising area |
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Current Nautical Almanac |
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Sextant |
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Sight Reduction Tables, forms & plotting sheets |
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GPS or Loran C electronic navigation aid |
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Knotmeter & distance measuring device |
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Radar (recommended) |
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The above is in addition to the DOT required safety equipment. Consult Safe Boating Guide for
Canadian Coast Guard minimum safety equipment for your boat.
Pre-Departure Checklist Return Checklist
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Vessel Inventory |
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Refuel |
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CCG Safety Equipment |
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Fill Water tanks |
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Navigation Lights |
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Centre & Lock wheel |
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Anchor, chain & rode |
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Remove Personal Gear |
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Safety Harnesses |
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Remove Food |
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Sail Inventory: |
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Wash all dishes |
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Jib |
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Drain Ice Box |
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Genoa |
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Clean Stove, counters, |
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Main |
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Table & ice box |
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Spinnaker(s) |
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Turn off Propane tank |
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Sails Condition |
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Remove all garbage |
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Raised & Lowered |
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Vacuum upholstery |
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Reefing system |
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Clean cabin sole |
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Rigging |
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Clean Head |
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Rudder |
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Complete Ships Log |
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Tiller or Wheel |
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Tidy Navigation Table |
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Trim (Fore & Aft) |
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Remove & Store Dinghy |
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Heel (Port & Starboard) |
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Tidy Cockpit Lockers |
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Bilge’s |
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Remove, Fold & Store Jib |
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Water |
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Detach Main Halyard |
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Fuel |
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Put on Main Sail Cover |
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Propane |
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Pump Bilge |
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Outboard |
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Connect Shore Power |
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Head Seacocks |
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Turn off DC |
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Stove operational |
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Turn on AC |
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Engine: |
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Shut Seacocks |
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Oil |
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Lock all Hatches |
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Coolant |
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Double Check Mooring |
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Seacock |
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Lines |
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Strainer |
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V-Belts |
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Leaks |
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VHF Radio |
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Handbearing Compass |
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Charts |
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Publications |
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Plotting Equipment |
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Provisions |
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Dinghy & Oars |
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Wet Wx Gear |
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Wx Report |
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Tides & Currents |
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