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The check list begins
24 April 2013 | Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama
Isobel off Isla Linton
We are in a Marina (09 22.029'n:079 57.073'w), getting ready for the Canal and a passage to Salinas Ecuador. Here is our "Pre-Passage check list"
Passage departure checklist:
Clean dinghy
Wire tie shackles
Drogue in aft lazerette
secondary chain in aft lazzerette
Engine check
RIgging check
Fuel and Gasoline
AIS functional
Steering cables
Clean bottom
Water? Jugs or water bag.
Food
Snacks
Nav lights test
Mast head light dial to Nav
Lee clothes set up
Aft bunk ditch supplies:
-Isobel's Type I accessible
-thru hole plugs
-Med kit
-first aid kit
-Secondary ditch bag
--guys
--Earth shaking music
--fleeces and hats
-flare box accessible and secure
-Type one PFD checked/lights
Carbide in hack saw
drive bit in screw driver
Monitor autopilot ready
flares and horn accessible
ditch bag accessible
EPIRBs test if not in past month
Charged IPAD
Charged Radios
Charge headlamps
Charge Computers
Charge work light and spot light
Handheld in Ditch bag
Ditch check list posted
Monitor wind-vane set up
Work all sea cocks
Tris'l rigged with blocks
secure trash can
Life sling
Throw line
MOB block and tackle preped
Computer GPS in place
Paper charts
screw floor
Bimini straps
Waypoints in GPS or plotter
clearance out
Destination entry procedures
Jacklines and tethers
preventors
Book case fiddles on
Anchor lashed and blocked
Dinghy on deck and tied
Dingy engine drained and stowed
shades off and stowed
Drawer straps and stops
Eye and sun Glasses clean
Main cover off
Jib Halyard tensioned
clicker in cockpit
Hatches and ports closed
Instruments on
Anchor alarm off
Windlass and washdown on
Wheel lock off
Engine neutral