3 documentsSafety & Expiry
Boat Safety & Expiry, Onboard Inventory
Everything aboard that has a deadline printed on it, and everything you will need to find quickly at three in the morning. Safety equipment expiry registers, spares and tools inventories, and medical kit contents logs.
- pages in all
- 105
- live fields
- 2,832
- models
- 18
- each
- $97
Every boat carries the same quiet uncertainty: a locker of equipment bought at different times, with expiry dates in small type on things nobody has looked at since they were stowed, and a spare that exists only if you can find it. These registers order equipment by expiry date rather than by locker, and stores by location rather than by category, because that is how you actually search for them.
These documents record what you carry and when it expires. They do not define what your vessel is required to carry. That depends on your flag state, your waters and your activity, and your maritime authority publishes it. The medical kit register records contents and dates only: no dosage, no indication, no recommendation on what the kit should contain.
Safety and inventory
Three lockers, one question: is it aboard, is it in date, and can you actually reach it? Safety inventories rot quietly, because every date that matters is printed somewhere nobody looks.
Nobody forgets a service because the arithmetic is hard
They forget it because the date is on a label, inside a valise, in a locker, under a bunk. The information exists and is simply not where the decision gets made. By the time anyone reads it, the answer is either fine or too late, and you had no way of knowing which.
Moving those dates onto one page, with the requirement that applies to your boat written beside each, from your insurer, your flag state, your race category, your manufacturer, converts a locker full of labels into a calendar. Which requirement applies is yours to establish. The register holds it once you have.
The safety equipment and expiry registerA spare you cannot reach is a spare you do not have
So is one you cannot find at two in the morning, and so is one that fits a part you replaced two seasons ago. Most spares kits are assembled from advice rather than from what actually broke on that boat, which is why they are simultaneously too heavy and missing the thing that fails.
A register that records what failed, what is aboard, where it is stowed and which tool fits it turns a locker into an inventory. The second season is when it starts paying, because by then the failures are yours and not a forum's.
The spares and tools registerAn inventory, and deliberately nothing more
The medical kit log names no medicine, gives no dose, and tells you nothing about what to use or when. That is not an oversight and it is not a limitation we apologise for. It is the only defensible form for this document.
What it records is what a qualified person specified for your boat and your voyage, what is physically in the box, the quantities, the expiry dates, and the crew information a professional would ask for over the radio. Treatment decisions belong to certified training and to medical advice obtained at the time. This holds the record. It does not advise.
The medical kit inventory and expiry logWhere to start, by your situation
A boat whose safety gear you inherited. The Safety Equipment and Expiry Register. Start with the liferaft and work outward.
A cruising season away from chandleries. The Spares and Tools Register. What you carry is decided by what has actually failed, not by a packing list.
Racing offshore, with a category inspection ahead. The same register, filled against the requirement your organiser publishes, which is the only version that counts.
A passage beyond easy assistance. The Medical Kit Log, alongside certified first aid training rather than instead of it.
What you will not find in any of them
No service interval. No shelf life. No statement of what any flag state, race organiser or insurer requires. And in the medical log, no medicine named, no dose, no indication, no procedure.
Not one published threshold, tolerance, rate or service life, here or anywhere else in this catalogue. Those figures exist, and they belong to your manufacturer's documentation in the revision matching your serial number, to the professional who worked on your boat, and to your own installation. A document that prints them has copied somebody else's equipment and handed you the risk.
Every register here opens the same way. A reference page where you transcribe your own figures, with the source document and its revision beside each line. A commissioning baseline. Then a deviation log measured against both. The models do the arithmetic from there.
That is not a limitation we apologise for. It is the product.