Equipment check list

Sample jar and water sample bucket with line

Ballast tank dipper with line

Small hand pump with hose for taking samples

Draught survey hydrometer with certificate

Steel sounding tape with graduations in metres and feet

Water finding paste

Draught/freeboard measuring device

Manometer if some draughts are impossible to read, plus a long measuring tape

Plastic tube with plug, to act as sounding pipe extension

Boat available to read inaccessible draughts

Pilot ladder on board ready for obtaining draughts

Documentation

Pocket computer with draught survey program or calculator