Checklists

Daily

• Board up

• Halyards bungeed

• Boom over and tied

• Helm over and locked

• Depth sounder, compass, Penelope cover

• Engine key back on hook

• Head switch in pumpout position

• Three seacocks closed

• Forehatch closed and dogged

• Cool box open

• Keys, wallet, phone, sunnies

• Battery off

Monthly

• Check engine oil (New oil and filter 17/09/22, New oil and filter 25/2/24@107hrs)

• Check fuel (History, +5Gl 15/4/23@71hrs, +7Gl 23/9/23@85hrs, +5Gl 25/2/24@107hrs)

• Clean bottom (History,4/2/24)

• Check bottom zinc (History, New 4/11/23 (coming off!), OK 4/2/24)

Bimonthly

• Check coolant level (Filled 19/10/19, Top-up 17/09/22, OK 25/2/24)

• Clean sea water strainer (Cleaned 9/9/23, 25/2/24)

• Check shaft and rudder packing (New shaft and prop ??/05/16, New packing 19/04/21, OK 7/1/23)

Biannually

• Charge spotlight (18/11/21)

• Check fuel/water separator (Drained 25/2/24)

• Clean bilge pump filters (New pump 22/11/21)

• Clean inside (Clean 28/11/22 (Yoni))

Yearly

• Change engine oil and filter every 100hrs (17/09/22)

• Change engine fuel filter every 100hrs (New 24/12/16, New 1/1/17, New 13/5/18, OK - 14/04/19)

• Clean cooler system with Barnacle Buster (30/4/17, ??/??/19, 18/04/21, 17/09/22)

• Check engine mounts (Fixed stbd bolt into fiberglass 24/12/16, epoxied bolt in fiberglass 1/1/17, Osfo and paint stbd-stern 27/06/20)

• Check depth sounder fluid (Added ?/9/23)

Biyearly

• Change transmission oil (History, 28/1/23)

• Service winches (06/04/21)

Longly

• Bottom paint (May 2020)

• Flares (Expire June 2018)

Starting and running the engine

1. Get hatch lock key from under the traveller in transom hatch (careful, if you drop it then it's going down to the bilge), go inside.

2. Battery swith is low on engine box; turn to all.

3. Get engine key from stress post. Insert in engine panel, but do not turn on yet.

4. Apply gas in neutral - press in and hold middle button in throttle (makes it neutral), lift throtlle release under throttle handle, move throttle forward a bit.

5. Turn on engine key, press lower button for 10seconds, keep holding lower button and prfess upper button to start, release both button when started.

6. Drink a cold beer for 10 minutes.

7. Do not turn off the key to stop engine! put throttle to idle (vertical), pull up fuel stop, engine stops, push down fuel stop.

8. Turn off key, put it back on the stress post.

9. Call launch on radio, then turn battery switch to off.

10. Lock up, return key to under the traveller.

11. Thank you!