Nevermore Depart Checklist

This is the checklist of thing to do before getting underway.

• unlock cabin, starboard lazarette, and stern lazarette. stow locks in top drawer of nav station.
• remove companionway boards. stow in cabin.
• make log entry. include at least the following:
  • date and time
  • name of each person on board
  • engine hours at start
  • fuel gauge reading (the one above nav station seat)
  • holding tank level
• check log entries of recent trips for repair problems
• remove guppy. stow in bucket in aft lazarette.
• check bilge for water; set nav-station panel "BILGE" DOWN to pump water out
• set lower battery switch to "1" (for the starting battery, battery #3)
  • (later (about 15-min) set upper battery switch to "1" or "2" (a house battery #1 or #2))
  • (and immediately set lower battery switch OFF)
• set nav-station panel 'MAIN' breaker to 'on'
• open head valves (there are 2)
• fly ensign from stern
• fly MIT burgie from starboard spreader
• switch instruments ON
• release steering wheel brake
• set centerboard (default to half-way)
• deploy cockpit winch-handles (1 in pocket, optionally 1 in mainsheet winch)
• push down engine-kill pull-knob

• prepare to sail (while on mooring, anchor, dock, if not underway)
  • remove sailcover and compass cover
  • release steering wheel brake
  •  ?? anything required about topping lift ??
  • connect main halyard to main, take out slack, put winch-handle in dorade
  • (left to do when go to sail: remove sail ties, raise main, optionally reef, unfurl jib)

QUESTION: Do we check engine oil anymore? Either (a) each sail, or (b) 1st sail of the week?

QUESTION: Do we check battery water level? maybe (a) 1st sail of week, or (b) 1st sail of month? [NOTE that Aleida had sealed batteries; N'more doesn't.]