Free and printable
Select the equipment aboard to build a checklist for your boat. It covers through-hulls, bilges, engine room, fire and safety, shore power, deck, electronics and cabin. Each check includes clear Pass, Watch and Action responses, so two people checking the same bilge write down the same thing.
Use it as a printable boat inspection form or yacht inspection checklist for any size of boat. Print it or save it as a PDF. No account or email required.
checks for the boat set up below
15 of them critical. Change what’s aboard and every number here follows.
Partial checklist: critical checks only.
Choose what’s aboard
No generator, no generator checks. The checklist rebuilds as you go and prints the way you see it, with lines for the date, who checked the boat and the engine hours.
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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
Partial checklist: critical checks only. Not every check for this boat.
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. Critical (tier 1) checks are where the boat 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 possible answers. Each answer is already marked Pass, Watch or 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 could not get to a check, leave it blank and write down why. A skipped check does not count as Pass.
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 earns half and Action earns none. If any Critical item is in Action, the overall status is Action required, regardless of the numerical score.
Run the inspection 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.
The checklist is built from the equipment aboard. If the boat has no generator, there are no generator checks to scroll past.
Photos attach to the check they document, and each photo keeps the time it was taken, not just when it uploaded.
Checks are weighted by severity: Critical carries the most, while Cosmetic and informational checks carry little or no weight. If any Critical item is in Action, the overall status is Action required regardless of the numerical score.
Each check can carry location notes and reference photos for this boat, so a new technician can find the strainer.
Anything reported and not yet done stays on the next report, with its date, until it is resolved.
Turn checks off, add your own, then publish the changes. Past inspections keep the checklist version they ran on.
However you found this page
Companies print it to hand a new tech, or to run one visit on paper before they use YachtGrade. It’s free either way. Nothing here asks for an email, and you don’t need an account to use it.
Run it as a company.
Print it, work through the boat, and keep it with the boat’s papers. It’s the same checklist YachtGrade builds for each boat in the app, from what is aboard.
Looking after your own boat?
Print it and tick it in pen. Or send this page to the company that services the boat. If they inspect it in YachtGrade, you get an owner report with the findings, photos, condition score and what needs Action first.
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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.
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