Master Handover

The Masters Handover is a comprehensive checklist and guide used for the handover process between two captains (referred to as the leaving and joining captains) of a yacht.

1. Consumables: This section covers essential consumables like Marine Gas Oil (MGO), Lube Oil, and Sludge for the yacht.
2. Handover Discussions: It details various matters discussed during the handover, including charterer/guest documentation, crew and guest lists, voyage waypoints, distances, times, and last voyage reports.
3. Voyage and Port Information: This part includes details about voyage plans, conditions in ports of call, peculiarities with port authorities, agents, ship chandlers, and customs.
4. Financial and Administrative Aspects: It addresses the Master's Cash Account, annual budgets, outstanding deliveries, spare part requirements, and inventory of ship's documents.
5. Legal and Compliance Documents: The checklist ensures the validity of Master’s Passport, Class Flag State, and Insurance Certificates, and other important documentation.
6. Technical Aspects: This includes maneuvering characteristics of the vessel, systems overview (ISM, ISPS, and PMS), stability books, SOPEP, ETB, BWMP, SOLAS training manual, and more.
7. Crew Management: It covers crew certificates, training status, personnel files, open ship defects, reportable items, incidents, non-conformities, PSC inspection, and observations.
8. Ship Maintenance and Operations: This includes details about outstanding repairs, technical history, recommendations, conditions of class, ship's computers, bridge installations, and software.
9. Safety and Security: The document checks for the vessel's security conditions, incidents, SSAS test schedule, MARSEC level, covert phrase, and inspection notes.
10. Engineering and Deck Department: This section evaluates the condition of navigational equipment, electronic and paper versions of nautical charts, publications, deck general condition, main engines, generators, and other technical aspects.
11. Interior Department: It checks inventory, bonded store, safes, entertainment system programming, and galley.
12. Signatures and Date: There are spaces for signatures of both the leaving and joining captains, along with the date and time of the handover.

The document serves as a detailed and structured guide for a smooth transition of command, ensuring that all critical aspects of the yacht's operation and management are comprehensively reviewed and handed over.