Leaving the boat check sheet

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Following an earlier post a few days ago about what do you do when you leave your boat, a fellow forumite asked if I would post the check sheet I mentioned I had knocked up for my boat.

Eventually I got used to most of the tasks, but if I allow relatives to stay onboard without me being there the comments section will be handy for them.

So here it is,

Photo version of Excel sheet

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I dont think leaving the kettle upside down or right way up as imortant as leaving it CLOSED to keep the spiders out!

I think I'll do my own check list it should be no longer than 5 items.

Main power switch .....OFF

Gas...........................OFF

Outboard ..................Padlocked

Hatch........................Padlocked

Cockpit lockers..........Locked

But it might be worth including

Take wallet and credit cards home

Take mobile phone home

and if I had one I would include securing the fore hatch.
 
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Key with us before snapping padlock shut

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THE most important one... I always have to check I've got my car keys in my pocket before closing the hatch.
 
empty the bin... I once left leftover curry in there for two weeks. Mmmmmm nice smelling boat on return. Oh and the milk in the fridge.
 
It’s an electric kettle. When we used to come back to the boat after a week or longer it was still wet in the bottom. A rinse would probably do of course, but I found leaving it upside down over the sink with the lid open dried it out nicely. This also helps my paranoia about things beginning to grow in the damp when it was left up the right way.

Thankfully I don’t have any spiders. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Yep we also left the bin once. (And only once /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif ) I put it on the list.

However I did accidentally leave half a loaf of sliced bread on the boat 2 weekends ago. I had a few jobs to do today so went down there. I was expecting the bread to be green fluffy and hiding under a bunk, but in fact it was fresh. Well I didn’t taste it of course, but no green and the slices were still soft just like fresh.

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One thing I don't have to check from the list is my doggie, she's allways the first on the jetty or where ever we are going ! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
I get around this one by having a padlock which will only lock shut with the key - indeed you cannot remove the key unless it is locked. Quite useful as the lock remains attached to the keyring... I'm sure its' saved my bacon a few times...
 
I'm worried about that bread. I'd heard the UK has the highest fat content in its breads in the world - probably preservatives also. This proves it! Fatty bread stays soft.
 
Re: Check List for leaving the boat

IMHO there is world of difference between leaving a strange (charter?) boat and your own, and more importantly between oversights that matter compared with those that don't - 'matter' meaning 'causes serious inconvenience or damage'.

The list needs to be rewritten every time you forget something, but if it's too long you may skim thro and bypass some items ("I'll lock the forehatch after I've been to the loo").

I rate seacocks, gas, electricity, hatches, windows and covers then lock up, as the essentials - plus the Take Home/Bring Next Time/Must Do list which runs throughout the trip.

So I'll be eating mouldy curry with stale bread and sleeping on a damp mattress before long.

That's boating!
 
Re: Check List for leaving the boat

Nobody's mentioned lines or strop. On a swinging mooring, it's the boat's attachment that I always find myself double checking before we leave the boat. I still worry that I haven't left it secured.

First time we left the boat on the mooring, I came back to find the drop-nose pin had carried away from the bow roller. The strop had jumped off the roller and was bearing against the pulpit and a fitting. One of the three strands was almost chafed through.

Since then I always have a lashing holding the strop down into the bow roller, as well as the pin.
 
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