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
Trailers and marine · TM-26
Sail Inventory and Condition Record
A free printable sail inventory: every sail with its maker, year, cloth and lengths, a season check one column per sail, and a log of repairs.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
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.
Who it is for
Yacht and dinghy owners, and clubs or schools with a loft full of sails.
How to use it
- List each sail once on page one, numbering them 1 to 7, with the lengths from the sail, its bag or the sailmaker's invoice.
- At the start of each season, fill page two: one column per sail, marked OK, W to watch or R for repair.
- Send the R items to the sailmaker and note when they went and came back.
- Log every repair on page one, so each sail's history stays with the list.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: Every sail listed once with its maker, year, cloth and lengths, then a record of each repair. Page two is the season check, one column per sail, so the sailmaker gets a list in spring, not a surprise in June.
Write-on lines: Boat · Owner · Sailmaker · Sailmaker's phone
Sail wardrobe — lengths as written on the sail, the bag or the sailmaker's invoice
Also printed: Lengths
Table, 7 rows: No. · Sail · Maker · Year · Cloth · Luff · Leech · Foot · Bag label & stored
Repairs and sailmaker work — by sail number from the list above
Table, 5 rows: Date · Sail · What was wrong · Done by · Work done · Cost · Back aboard
Page 2
Season check — OK, W to watch, or R for repair, in each sail's column
Also printed: Sail number, from page one · Check · Date checked · Cloth and seams · Cloth: tears, holes, mildew, hard creases · Seams: stitching worn or broken, often on the sun side · UV strip or sail cover: faded, brittle or lifting · Corners and edges · Head, tack and clew: rings, webbing and patches · Leech: leech line, its cleat, the tabling · Luff: tape or bolt rope, slides, cars or hanks · Foot: bolt rope or slides, outhaul fitting · Reef points, cringles and reef patches · Battens and chafe · Batten pockets, end caps and elastic · Battens: cracked, split or missing · Chafe at spreaders, shrouds, stanchions, pulpit · Telltales, sail numbers and insignia · Bag sound, label readable, sail stowed dry · Verdict · Overall: good, fair or poor · Action: none, repair or replace · Checked by
Write-on lines: Sent to the sailmaker on · Sails sent · Collected on
Ruled lines: Notes: how each sail sets, and anything to ask the sailmaker
Questions
Why is there no age or hours at which a sail should be replaced?
Because it depends on the cloth, how the sail is used and stored, and how much sun it sees. A cruising sail and a racing laminate age very differently. The sheet records what you find each season; when to replace a sail is for you and your sailmaker to judge.
What do OK, W and R mean on the season check?
OK means nothing to do. W means watch it: a small wear point or a faded strip to look at again soon. R means it needs a repair before the sail is used hard.
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