Photos of before and after...

Our survey was pretty long, 112 items, 15 critical ones...

Survey Photos:

1978 Tartan 37 / JUST DUCKY

WORK-LIST

Immediate Safety or Regulatory Issues

1.      The damaged topsides should be cropped out to sound material and repaired in accordance with good marine practice. 

2.      The intermediate rudder support gudgeon should be repaired.  

3.      The leak in the seawater side of the auxiliary engine heat exchanger should be repaired. 

4.      Install a pressure gauge at the propane supply tank. 

5.      All fuel lines should be renewed with proper USCG Type A fuel hose. 

6.      A wearable PFD should be carried suitable for each person on board. 

7.      Visual distress signals should be placed on board. 

8.      A horn and bell should be placed on board. 

9.      An oil discharge placard should be mounted on board. 

10.  The documentation number should be fully glassed to the hull. 

Items to maintain or improve the condition and value of the vessel or
to bring it into compliance with the latest ABYC standards.

These are in order by category not by precedence

1.      The broken off and delaminated keel fairing should be repaired. 

2.      The bottom paint should be renewed. 

3.      The topsides core should be dried out and sealed at the running light openings. 

4.      The chainplate caulking should be removed, the deck dried out and sealed and the chainplates recaulked. 

5.      The starboard water tank deck fill fitting should be lifted, the deck dried out and sealed and the fitting reinstalled. 

6.      The exposed core at the chain pipe on the foredeck should be sealed.  

7.      Renew the companionway hatch drop boards.  

8.      The port forward opening port light should be renewed. 

9.      The cracked outer frame of the aft port window should be renewed. 

10.  The broken fan in the vent over the head should be renewed. 

11.  The missing screw fasteners for the two aft Dorade vent box covers should be replaced.

12.  The plumbing T fittings attached to the cockpit drain through hull fittings should be replaced with proper bronze ball valves. 

13.  Tie an emergency plug adjacent to each through hull fitting below the waterline. 

14.  The PFDs should be labeled with the vessel name. 

15.  Carry a Lifesling man overboard recovery device mounted on the stern rail. 

16.  Carry a man overboard pole and floating strobe light for coastal operation. 

17.  A life raft and 406 MHz EPIRB should be carried for any ocean voyage. 

18.  The dinghy registration should be renewed. 

19.  A first aid kit should be carried on board. 

20.  Install a cover plate for the fire extinguisher port for the engine compartment. 

21.  Renew the portable fire extinguishers due to age. 

22.  Install a marine carbon monoxide detector in the accommodations spaces. 

23.  The electric bilge pump should be renewed. 

24.  The electric bilge pump discharge hose should be renewed with a continuous length of reinforced hose. 

25.  The bilge pump and sump pump should discharge into the through hull fitting over high loops in the discharge hoses. 

26.  The bilge pump float switch should be renewed. 

27.  The missing screen in the strainer at the end of the manual bilge pump hose should be renewed. 

28.  Install an audible bilge alarm. 

29.  Carry a couple buckets for use in an emergency. 

30.  The tachometer should be renewed. 

31.  The zincs in the heat exchanger should be checked and changed as needed. 

32.  Install foil coated marine sound insulation for the engine compartment. 

33.  Service the engine in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations including replacement of all fluids and filters. 

34.  The seawater pump impeller should be opened, inspected and renewed as needed. 

35.  The vent in the high vented loop for the engine cooling water should be renewed. 

36.  Install a coolant overflow expansion tank. 

37.  The shaft zincs should be repositioned to allow water to flow through the cutlass bearing. 

38.  The strut zinc should be renewed. 

39.  The shaft and propeller should be scaled of marine growth. 

40.  Gain access to and inspect the fuel fill hose. 

41.  The fuel tank gauge should be renewed. 

42.  The ball valve and length of outboard motor fuel hose connected to the fuel system on the starboard side of the engine compartment should be eliminated from the fuel system. 

43.  The electric fuel pump should be removed or properly wired to be energized with an intermittent switch that is integral with the starting switch. 

44.  The wire clamps on the steering quadrant should be repositioned with the saddles on the working side of the wire. 

45.  The emergency tiller handle should be shortened approximately 6 inches. 

46.  The autopilot should be renewed as needed. 

47.  The wind vane and associated rigging should be reinstalled as needed. 

48.  The cracked top part of the rudder skeg fairing should be repaired. 

49.  A reverse polarity indicator should be added to the AC distribution panel. 

50.  A fuse or circuit breaker should be installed adjacent to the battery switch in the main bus wire supplying the DC distribution panels. 

51.  The main AC grounding bus should be connected to the DC main negative bus. 

52.  The GFCI outlet with open ground at the chart table should be repaired. 

53.  The AC outlet in the head showed reverse polarity and should be repaired. 

54.  The fuel pump switch hanging by its wiring at the chart table should be properly mounted. 

55.  Renew the vessel batteries. 

56.  The wing nuts securing the battery cables to the batteries should be replaced with hex nuts and securely tightened. 

57.  The main battery cable wiring should be renewed with proper UL approved marine wiring. 

58.  The inoperable overhead lights over the galley and over the starboard settee in the main saloon should be repaired. 

59.  The steaming light and tricolor running light at the masthead should be repaired. 

60.  The overhead light missing its cover over the quarter berth should be renewed. 

61.  The batteries should be secured in place to prevent lateral and vertical movement. 

62.  Emergency flashlights should be located on the vessel. 

63.  The shackle attaching the chain to the anchor should be properly moused. 

64.  The bitter end of the anchor rode on the bow should be tied to the vessel with small line. 

65.  Scale and preserve the surface oxidation and pealing paint at various fittings on the mast. 

66.  When recaulking the chainplates they should be closely inspected for corrosion where they pass through the deck. 

67.  Remove the concealing wood work around the chain plates for routine inspection of the chainplates and attachment bolts. 

68.  Renew the backing block for the stem head fitting. 

69.  The winches were stiff and should be opened, cleaned and lubricated. 

70.  The original mainsail outhaul should be renewed. 

71.  Renew the traveler control lines with slightly smaller diameter line. 

72.  The deteriorated cheek block on the starboard side of the boom for the second reef should be renewed. 

73.  The extra wraps of jib furling line should be removed from the furling drum. 

74.  The jib sheet lead cars should be turned around so that the pins are forward of the pulleys. 

75.  The pedestal steering compass should be repaired or renewed. 

76.  A compass deviation table should be developed to determine compass error. 

77.  The DSC capable VHF radio should be registered and the MMSI number entered in the radio. 

78.  The GPS should be renewed as needed. 

79.  Operation of the knot meter should be verified. 

80.  The relative wind instruments should be repaired or renewed. 

81.  The stern light lens was deteriorated and should be renewed. 

82.  Renew the side lights and stern light with new fixtures that are certified to comply with the Navigation Rules. 

83.  Adequate charts and tide tables should be carried for the local operating area. 

84.  The door from the forward cabin to the main saloon should be adjusted for proper closure. 

85.  A pin should be installed to retain the starboard settee. 

86.  The stereo should be repaired or renewed as needed. 

87.  The warn interior wood work should be refinished as needed. 

88.  The water stained wood work adjacent to the starboard chainplates should be refinished. 

89.  The water stained wood work on the shelf on the port side of the forward cabin should be refinished. 

90.  The mold and water staining below the forward end of the dinette seat should be cleaned and sanitized. 

91.  The side engine compartment access panels in the quarter berth should be properly fastened. 

92.  The cockpit teak decking should be refastened and recaulked as needed. 

93.  Replace the missing and loose fasteners for the bow pulpit, stern rail and lifeline stanchions. 

94.  The loose lifeline turnbuckle locking nuts should be tightened. 

95.  The deteriorated varnish coatings on the exterior wood should be refinished. 

96.  A safety rail should be installed in the galley in front of the stove. 

97.  The refrigeration system should be repaired. 

98.  The leak in the pressure fresh water system should be repaired. 

99.  The fresh water pump should be mounted. 

100.          The hand pump at the galley sink that should be repaired. 

101.          The moldy fresh water tank vent hoses should be renewed. 

102.          Modify the water tank vents to a high loop that terminates over the head or galley sink.