Free and printable
The checklist every YachtGrade account starts with: through-hulls, bilges, engine room, fire and safety, shore power, deck, electronics and cabin. Each check spells out which answers count as Pass, Watch and Action, so two people looking at the same bilge write down the same thing.
Tell it what’s aboard, then print it. No email needed.
checks for the boat set up below
15 of them critical. Change what’s aboard and every number here follows.
Build it
No generator, no generator checks. The list rebuilds as you go and prints the way you see it, with lines for the date, who checked and the engine hours.
What’s aboard
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To keep a copy, choose Save as PDF in the print window.
Boat inspection checklist
Your boat
50 checks
15 critical
Tick every answer that’s true. The worst one ticked is the result. Leave a check blank if you couldn’t get to it, and write down why. Tier 1 is critical: she sinks, burns or someone gets hurt.
Graded on its own. Finish never counts toward the health score.
Prints exactly what’s shown, with every section open.
Free from yachtgrade.com/boat-inspection-checklist. A condition check, not a marine survey.
How the answers work
Tick what you see.
Every check lists its answers, and each one already knows whether it’s a Pass, a Watch or an Action.
The worst answer wins.
A bilge that’s damp with oil in it is an Action, not a Watch.
Blank isn’t a Pass.
If you couldn’t get to it, leave it blank and write down why. A skipped check never counts as fine.
Critical comes first.
Through-hulls, hoses below the waterline, bilge pumps, shore power and fire safety are where boats sink and burn at the dock.
What the tier numbers mean
In YachtGrade, Pass earns a check’s full points, Watch half and Action none. If anything critical needs action, the grade stays at Action required, whatever the points add up to.
On a phone
Paper works until you look after more than a few boats. YachtGrade runs this checklist on a phone and does the parts paper can’t.
Her checklist comes from her equipment, so nobody scrolls past a generator she doesn’t have.
Photos attach to the check they prove, and the time each one was taken is printed on it.
Weighted by tier, held at Action required when anything critical needs action, and every lost point listed.
Each check can carry notes and reference photos for this hull, so a new tech finds the strainer.
Anything reported and not yet done stays on her next report, dated, until it’s resolved.
Turn checks off, add your own and publish. Past checks keep the version they ran on.
If she’s your own boat
Most people who print this look after their own boat. Nothing here asks for an email, and you don’t need an account to use it.
Take it aboard and tick it in pen.
Print it, work through her, and keep it with the ship’s papers. It’s the same checklist a company would run.
Or ask whoever looks after her.
Send them this page. If they run the check in YachtGrade, you get a report with the photos, the score, and what needs a decision first.
One boat is enough.
If you’d rather run it yourself, the minimum is $59 a month, which covers up to three boats, and every user is included.
Her log and her guide are free too.
The same job in print for her service history: a boat maintenance log, and a QR code for the dash that explains her to whoever is aboard.
Prove it, then own it
30 days free on up to 3 boats. No card and no sales call.
Four promises
A YachtGrade checklist records a boat’s condition on the day it was checked. It isn’t a marine survey and doesn’t replace one, or the manufacturer’s service schedule.