It’s important to prepare your boat to come to the boatyard. Using the checklists below will promote maintenance of your boat and even save you money. When it comes to boats, we all want to save money! If you have any questions about getting your boat ready, please give us a call at 510-843-8195. We’d love to speak with you.
Haul out checklist
- The bottom of your boat has been cleaned by a diver within the past 3 months.
- Clean your cabin top, decks, and sail covers. No visible algae, please. The algae blows on to surrounding boats and gets on our workers.
- Stow everything inside your boat in preparation for our marine technicians to move about unencumbered.
- Empty your holding tank and if possible, rinse it out. If you need instructions on how to rinse out your holding tank, please refer to our FAQ page. If there is holding tank or sanitation hose excess spillage, it is a minimum charge of $150 extra.
- Remove all perishable food from your boat and turn off your refrigeration system.
- Close and tighten all hatches and portlights.
- Once you arrive at our dock and turn off your engine, turn your battery switch to “Off” and shut down your AC and DC power.
- Drop off keys to main office/ chandlery and provide any combinations needed for entry to your boat.
Mast unstepping checklist
Please read and follow this list carefully. We can do this preparation for you, but it will result in yard labor charges of $110 per hour.
- Take photos showing details of all key components, connectors and placement.
- Label all rigging to identify type and location. Human memory is short.
- Remove all sails from the mast, including headsails on roller furlers.
- Disconnect the boom at the gooseneck.
- Disconnect topping lift, boom vang, and anything that connects the boom to the mast.
- Any lines in or on the mast should be secured and coiled on the mast.
- Prior to loosening turnbuckles, tape the threads on turnbuckles where threads enter turnbuckles. This acts as a gauge for approximate length and tension on stays when re-installing.
- Straighten, but do not remove, cotter pins on clevis pins.
- Remove all cotter pins from turnbuckles and be sure the turnbuckles turn freely. If necessary, soak them with a lubricant such as WD-40 or Kroil, to loosen them.
- Do not disconnect any standing rigging. Loosen only.
- Disconnect, or be prepared to disconnect, mast electrical wiring.
- Do not cut the radar cable, it cannot be spliced.
- If the mast is keel stepped, loosen the wedges at the partners. If anything is attached to the mast below deck, be sure it will pass thru the deck opening. If not, remove it.
- If the mast is secured to the mast step with a hinge pin or bolt, be sure it is not corroded. If it is, soak it with a lubricant.