2026Edition · Super-Pack · 4 documents
The New Owner's Command KitBuy Her, Cost Her, Equip Her, Lay Her Up
Four documents for the first year: 214-point due diligence, running cost model, medical kit inventory, winterisation record, and a Kit Guide.
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The Boat Buyer's Due Diligence Kit
Section 04 · Propulsion & engine
Annual Running Cost Model
Major items, and the life being consumed
Medical Kit Inventory & Expiry Log
Transcribed from the packet, 1 to 16
Haul-Out & Winterization Record
Autumn on the left, spring on the right
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- pages
- 184
- live fields
- 4,072
- models
- 22
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- 4
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- 184 pages, 4,072 fields, 22 models
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5 sections · about 4 minutes · the full brief, nothing held back
01In shortThe first twelve months of owning a boat are the twelve months you will wish you had documented. You inspect her with…2 min
The first twelve months of owning a boat are the twelve months you will wish you had documented.
You inspect her with a phone note. You discover what she costs in instalments, over a year, from six different places. You inherit a medical kit nobody can account for. And in October you lay her up for the first time, alone, in the cold, with no record of what you did.
The New Owner's Command Kit cuts across the catalogue by profile rather than by system. Four documents, in the order the first year actually happens.
The four, in sequence
A first year, documented as it happens
- Before you buy: The Boat Buyer's Due Diligence Kit. 214 numbered points in a fixed sequence, producing a record you can hand straight to your surveyor or your broker. 77 pages.
- Once she is yours: Annual Running Cost Model. Your own invoices sorted into what arrives anyway and what follows use, with the capital annualised, and the cost per hour, per mile and per night aboard. 35 pages.
- Before she sails: Medical Kit Inventory & Expiry Log. Who specified the kit, what is in each container, every expiry on one page, and the crew sheet a doctor on the radio asks for first. 36 pages.
- When the season ends: Haul-Out & Winterisation Record. The inspection you fill in wet before the pressure washer, and a paired register so that every line closed in autumn is opened again in spring. 36 pages.
02Why this combinationBecause the defects you priced at purchase become the capital lines in the cost model; because the first lift-out is the first…1 min
Because the defects you priced at purchase become the capital lines in the cost model; because the first lift-out is the first honest look at the hull you bought; and because a first winter done without a record is a first spring spent guessing. Each document is complete on its own. What the pack buys you is the thread between them, and in Revision 2.1 a Kit Guide that writes it down: the order of work for the four, and every date of the first year on one page.
Before you order, what overlaps with the system kits
This pack is cut by profile, not by system, so each of its four documents also belongs to a Command Kit. The Due Diligence Kit is part of the Boat Buying Command Kit; the Annual Running Cost Model and the Haul-Out & Winterisation Record are part of the Ownership & Admin Command Kit; the Medical Kit Inventory is part of the Safety & Expiry Command Kit.
If you already own one of those kits, buy the individual documents you are missing rather than this pack. If you own none of them, this is the shorter route.
03What you receiveEvery figure, edition and format, in one table.1 min
| Pack reference | AML-PACK-NEW |
| Documents | 4, drawn from three different clusters |
| Extent | 184 pages across the four documents, plus the 9-page Kit Guide |
| Interactivity | 4,072 live PDF form fields across the four documents, plus 243 in the Kit Guide; results calculated in Adobe Acrobat Reader on computer, iPhone and Android |
| Models | 22 calculation models |
| Files | 21: a Start here page, then the four documents and the Kit Guide, each Fillable and Pencil & Print, in A4 and US Letter |
| Kit Guide | Included: the order of work across the four records, and every date of the first year on one page, sorted for you in Adobe Acrobat Reader |
| Which file to open | Fillable in Adobe Acrobat Reader or Apple Files; Pencil & Print in GoodNotes, Notability or on paper; A4 or US Letter by the paper you print on |
| Tested in | Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac, iPhone and Android, Apple Files, GoodNotes, Notability |
| Offline | No app, no account, no connection required once downloaded |
As a pack, the four documents cost less than bought one at a time (the price block on this page works out the exact figures from current prices), and the first year arrives in the order you will actually live it.
04The rule every document in the pack obeysNot one published tolerance, cost, percentage, service life, procedure, medicine, dose or requirement anywhere in 193 pages.1 min
Not one published tolerance, cost, percentage, service life, procedure, medicine, dose or requirement anywhere in 193 pages. You supply the figures from your own manuals, invoices, policies and practitioner; the models set out the arithmetic, step by step, and reach no conclusion.
05What it is notThese documents record and organise.1 min
These documents record and organise. They are not a marine survey, not medical advice, not a service procedure and not financial advice. They are designed to make you a far better-prepared client of the qualified people you will be paying anyway.
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2026 Edition, Revision 2.1, AML-PACK-NEW. Apex Marine Labs designs the organisational process behind good seamanship.
You already know what to check. What's missing is the order.
Walk aboard with a record, not a memory.
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Questions
Before you buy the New Owner's Command Kit
The five questions asked about every document, answered for this pack.
Which file do I open first?
Open the Start here page, then the Kit Guide: it sets the order of work across the four records. Every document and the Kit Guide come in two editions, each in A4 and US Letter. Type in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free, or write by hand in GoodNotes, Notability or on paper.
Does it calculate on iPhone or Android?
Yes. In Adobe Acrobat Reader on iPhone or Android every document in the pack calculates as it does on a computer, and the Kit Guide sorts every date of the first year for you. Entries are saved into the files: no app of ours, no account, no connection.
What does it deliberately not contain?
A survey, medical advice, a service procedure or financial advice. The four documents record and organise, so you arrive a better-prepared client of the professionals you will pay anyway.
Does the pack suit a power boat?
Yes. The inspection, the cost model, the medical log and the haul-out record are all written for sail or power.
A4 or US Letter?
Both, for every file in the pack, in both editions. Choose by the paper you print on: A4 in Australia, New Zealand and Europe, US Letter in the United States and Canada. The pages and fields are the same in each.
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