The New Owner's Command Kit
Buy Her, Cost Her, Equip Her, Lay Her Up

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

• Before you buy — The Ultimate 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. 41 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. 22 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. 24 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. 21 pages.

Why this combination

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.

Before you order — what overlaps with the system kits

This pack is cut by profile, not by system, so three of its four documents also belong 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 & Compliance 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.

What you receive

The rule every document in the pack obeys

Not one published tolerance, cost, percentage, service life, procedure, medicine, dose or requirement anywhere in 108 pages. You supply the figures from your own manuals, invoices, policies and practitioner; the models do the arithmetic and reach no conclusion.

What it is not

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.

Bought separately, $388. As a pack, $247 — you keep $141.

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2026 Captain's Edition · AML-PACK-NEW. Apex Marine Labs designs the organisational process behind good seamanship.