Hull Watch

For: boat owners and operators, and the marine surveyors who inspect specific builders and models.

• The Coast Guard and boat and engine makers issue safety recalls and defect notices all year — a hull, fuel-system, steering or engine defect on your make and model is a safety issue and a resale problem, and federal law requires the builder to fix a reported defect free.
• Today you find out by chance — a forum thread, an offhand dealer remark, or never; there's no alert scoped to your specific builder, model and year.
• The recall lookups that exist are clunky government search pages you have to remember to check; nobody emails you when one lands for your boat.

Tell us your boat — builder, model and year, plus the engine. We watch the U.S. Coast Guard's published recreational-boat and engine recall and defect notices and email you in plain language when one lands that affects your boat: what's defective, the remedy, and the source link.

Built on free public-domain U.S. government data (U.S. Coast Guard Boating Safety recall database). Not affiliated with the U.S. Coast Guard; informational only.