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Trailers and marine

Trailers, horseboxes, caravans and boats — annual service records, pre-use inspections and the towing figures you should never be guessing at.

A trailer and a boat both spend most of their lives standing still, and both fail in the places nobody looks: inside a hub, under a floor, behind a seal. These sheets are built around the parts that corrode quietly, and around the weights and limits that have to be looked up once and written down.

Sheets in Trailers and marine

Trailer Annual Service Record

Keep an annual service history for a trailer, so its condition is a record of dates and work rather than a vague sense that it was fine last year.

TM-01 3 pages

Horsebox and Livestock Trailer Check

Check the floor properly before every trip, and run the same pre-travel routine each time so the animal side is not left to memory.

TM-02 2 pages

Boat Trailer Inspection Checklist

Inspect the things that only go wrong on a trailer that gets driven into the water — wet bearings, corrosion from the inside, and a winch strap nobody has unrolled in years.

TM-03 2 pages

Towing Weights and Limits Record

Get your own towing figures out of four different documents and onto one sheet, with a line for every time the outfit is actually weighed.

TM-04 2 pages

Caravan Habitation Check Record

Record damp readings at the same points year after year, so a wet corner shows up as a trend long before it shows up as a repair bill.

TM-05 3 pages

Outboard Motor Service Log

Service an outboard by hours rather than by dates, and keep the impeller and anode record that decides whether the motor has a long life or a short one.

TM-06 2 pages

Boat Safety Equipment Check

Keep an inventory of the safety gear aboard with the date each item expires, so the out-of-date ones are found at the dock rather than at sea.

TM-07 2 pages

Marine Battery and Electrical Log

Track battery voltages as a series rather than a single reading, so a bank that is dying is obvious well before it strands you.

TM-08 2 pages

Winter Lay-Up and Launch Checklist

Put the autumn lay-up jobs and the spring launch checks on the same page, so what you did in October is in front of you in April.

TM-09 1 page

Utility Trailer Inspection Checklist

Catch deck rot, a seized ramp hinge or a chafed cable before it fails on the road, with a walk-round that goes further than a same-day pre-tow glance.

TM-10 2 pages

Antifoul and Hull Treatment Log

Know exactly what is on the hull before you buy the next tin. The haul-out lines then show whether the paint you chose actually kept the growth off.

TM-16 1 page

Boat Berth and Mooring Record

Keep the berth paperwork and the mooring gear history on one sheet. A renewal is not missed, and a chafed line is caught on a check rather than in a gale.

TM-17 1 page

Boat Engine Hours and Service Record

Turn the hour meter into a service schedule you can actually read. An oil change is then due at a number on the page, not at some point this season.

TM-18 2 pages

Crew List and Passage Plan Sheet

Leave a shore contact with everything they need if the boat is overdue. It also makes you write the passage plan down before you cast off.

TM-19 1 page

Liferaft and Safety Gear Service Record

Keep the certificates and service dates for everything sent away for testing. They are then in one file for the surveyor, the insurer or a charter check.

TM-20 2 pages

Safety Boat Pre-Launch Check

Find a closed vent, a dead kill cord or a loose engine clamp before a rescue depends on it. The go or no-go is written down and signed.

TM-23 1 page

Dinghy Pre-Sail Rigging Check

Find the missing split ring or the loose bung in the dinghy park, before the boat is launched. One card per boat builds a record over a season.

TM-24 1 page

Standing Rigging Inspection Record

Track worn terminals, missing split pins and the age of the rig from season to season. Page two goes to the rigger with the photographs and the quote.

TM-25 2 pages

Sail Inventory and Condition Record

Know what each sail is, how old it is and what it needs before the season starts. The season check turns into the sailmaker's job list, and the repair log shows what each sail has already had done.

TM-26 2 pages

Crew Safety Briefing Checklist

Give every crew the same briefing before the boat leaves, regulars included. Each topic is shown and ticked, and the crew initial the foot.

TM-28 1 page

Yacht Charter Check-In Inventory

Settle a charter deposit from a dated record, not from memory. Every item is checked at handover and again at return, with the levels read and photos numbered.

TM-29 2 pages

Used Boat Viewing Checklist

Rule a weak boat out at the viewing, before paying for a survey. Each area is graded good, fair or poor with notes, and the papers and answers sit beside it.

TM-30 2 pages

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Other categories

Property records

The paperwork that covers the whole building — service history, registers, warranties and the seasonal rounds.

26 sheets

Home systems

Heating, hot water, ventilation, drainage and water supply — the fixed systems that need servicing on a schedule.

27 sheets

Safety checks

Alarm tests, extinguisher checks and the records that prove they happened.

24 sheets

Outdoor machines

Mowers, saws, generators, washers, compressors and tractors — hour-based servicing and the part numbers you can never find.

23 sheets

Vehicles

Cars, motorcycles, motorhomes, trailers and boats — service history, schedules and pre-use inspections.

23 sheets

Water and pools

Pools, hot tubs and private water supplies — chemistry logs and test records.

14 sheets

Rental property

Maintenance logs, periodic inspections and changeover checklists for let property.

17 sheets

Pets and animals

Vaccination and health records, sitter instructions and the emergency details somebody else would need if you were not there.

33 sheets

Workshop and tools

Inventories, service logs and the working paperwork a small workshop, a trade or a van actually runs on.

32 sheets

Cleaning and routines

Cleaning schedules, rotas, deep-clean checklists and the dated records a cleaning routine is supposed to leave behind.

10 sheets

Moving and buying

The paperwork of changing address — moving, viewing, snagging, renovating and switching the supplies over.

12 sheets

Garden and growing

Sowing plans, plot layouts, greenhouse logs, compost records and fruit tree histories — blank wherever the answer depends on where you garden.

37 sheets

Exotic and small pets

Husbandry records for reptiles, amphibians, fish, small mammals and birds — the readings, feeds and weights that keep an animal well.

26 sheets

Trade job forms

The sheet that goes out in the van: what was quoted, what was fitted, what it took and what the customer signed.

40 sheets

Garage and vehicle workshop

Job cards, parts, road tests and the paperwork that follows a car through a workshop from booking in to handing back.

42 sheets

Professional drivers

Shifts, runs, checks and hours — for the people whose office is a vehicle.

38 sheets

Warehouse and logistics

Goods in, picked, packed, counted and despatched — the paper trail down the aisle.

25 sheets

Restaurants and bars

Prep done, tables planned, lines cleaned, waste counted and the till cashed up.

28 sheets

Retail shop floor

The till, the stockroom, the shelf edge and the routines that open and close the door.

25 sheets

Salon and studio

What was done to whom, with what, and what they said about it last time.

25 sheets

Music and performance

The gig booked, the stage plotted, the set played and the show reported.

34 sheets

Studio crafts and making

Firings, cuts, pours and settings — written down so the good one can be repeated.

35 sheets

Sports clubs by sport

Team sheets, scorebooks, training plans and the club admin behind a fixture.

30 sheets

IT and office systems

What kit exists, who has it, whether the backup ran and when the licence expires.

20 sheets

Livestock and smallholding

Flock and herd records, medicine and movement books, and the application records that have to be produced when somebody asks.

71 sheets

Craft and making

Project planners, stash inventories and machine logs — for quilting, sewing, printing, modelling and selling what you make.

15 sheets

Photography and media

Shot lists, kit inventories and job records — for getting the shot, insuring the kit and finding out what the work actually pays.

10 sheets

Outdoor pursuits

Logbooks and trip plans for time spent outdoors — dives made, water paddled, rounds played.

33 sheets

Vehicle buying and selling

Sheets for the hour you spend standing in front of a car you are thinking of buying, and for comparing it afterwards with the others you saw.

19 sheets

Beekeeping

Inspection records for hives and colonies, built so this week's visit can be read against the last three.

21 sheets

Equine records

Due-date charts and care records for horses and ponies, with the intervals left blank for the ones your own farrier, vet and dentist give you.

33 sheets

Access and visitor control

Visitor sign-in pages and key registers — who is in the building, who let them in, and what has not come back.

14 sheets

Running costs and fleet

Per-fill fuel and cost records, kept unit-neutral so the same sheet works wherever you buy fuel and whatever your odometer reads in.

21 sheets

Hobby and craft logbooks

Logbooks for the things people do for the love of it, built to hold hours, conditions and the incident nobody wants to reconstruct from memory.

10 sheets

Food preservation and pantry

What is on the shelf, how much of it you want there, and what needs reordering before the recipe stops.

10 sheets

Growing results and crops

What seed you actually have, whether it still germinates, and what the plot really produced.

20 sheets

Fitness and training

Session logs and equipment records for training — what you did, and what your kit has done.

10 sheets

Collecting and valuables

Itemised records for collections and valuables — what you own, what it cost, and what can be evidenced about it.

11 sheets

Office and committee

The paperwork a committee, a small office or a one-person project runs on — minutes, agendas, actions, decisions, risks and issues.

13 sheets

Invoicing and money

The money paperwork a one-person business runs on — invoices, estimates, receipts, orders, price lists and the sheets that show what a job really cost.

24 sheets

Staff records

The records a small employer actually needs: hours, leave, rotas, reviews, training and the two checklists that make starting and leaving orderly.

15 sheets

Site and construction

Permits, method statements, diaries and inspection registers for building sites, yards and anywhere work is done under control.

15 sheets

Classroom and childcare

Blank sheets for a classroom, a tutor, a club or an evening's babysitting — registers, marks, seating, reading and trips.

14 sheets

Clubs and teams

The paperwork a sports club, a society or a village hall committee runs on — members, subs, kit, duties, scores and fixtures.

13 sheets

Blank and universal

Sheets with no subject at all — blank logs, blank checklists, tally sheets and report forms you head yourself.

12 sheets

Kitchen and catering

Records for a working kitchen — what a dish costs, what was made from which batch, what was checked, cleaned and thrown away.

30 sheets

Travel and trips

Two sheets for going somewhere: a packing list you write once and reuse, and a road trip planned day by day.

10 sheets

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