REEL ACTION

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

REEL ACTION is a 1975 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 12 inspections since 2017, most recently in June 2025, along with 1 operational control and 8 casualty investigations between 2013 and 2025.

Records from 2013 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 22 June 2025.

Built: 1975
Last inspected: 22 June 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 12
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 8 investigations · 2013–2025
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

Coast Guard record current through 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Fishing Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 2016.

Inspection record

Last inspected 22 June 2025

Recorded inspections12

…with no type recorded12

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2017–2025)

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. A blank resolution means none was recorded in this data; it does not establish that a deficiency is outstanding. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not years in service. What Maury does not do.

Identity

609786

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173936

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-173936

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)39.2 ft × 15.1 ft × 6.9 ft

Registered tonnagegross 22 / net 15

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderRALEIGH B STAPLETON · MIAMI, FL, UNITED STATES · built 1975

Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portMOREHEAD CITY, NC

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 15 July 2026 · expires 31 July 2027

Service, as the file records itCommercial Fishing Vessel

Hull formunknown (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)

Tonnage as PSIX records it22 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
15 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Net Ton

Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.

Vessel history report

Every record for this hull, in one document — $299

Every recorded inspection, 2016 to 2026 for this class, in one chronology · every deficiency, with system, dates and resolution · operational controls imposed and removed · every name this hull has been recorded under · the vessels it was inspected alongside, and when · how its record compares with hulls of similar age and size, as a fact about the population and never a judgement about this vessel.

Read one first, in full: a forty-year chronology · a hull that changed operators four times · the sparse case, shown as an example, not for sale.

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Inspected as a tow unit · 2

The Coast Guard recorded this vessel and the following in the same inspection activity — normally a tug and the barges in its tow. A recreational or unclassed hull in the same activity is held and not published, so it does not appear here: these lists are a floor, not a complete manifest.

CAPT. WINDERS Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 266246 · 22 June 2025 · activity 8359104 CJ II Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 631638 · 30 May 2023 · activity 7820783

Inspection history · 12

22 June 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8359104

20 December 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8087835

19 December 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8227068

16 December 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC STEELHEAD (WPB 87324) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8048470

8 September 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC NATHAN BRUCKENTHAL (WPC-1128) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7797874

30 May 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7820783

6 April 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC STEELHEAD (WPB 87324) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7664338

30 September 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC NATHAN BRUCKENTHAL (WPC-1128) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7326168

7 June 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Fort Macon · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6709982

29 March 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC RICHARD SNYDER (WPC 1127) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 6660281

5 November 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC FLYINGFISH (WPB 87346) · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6302830

5 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC CUSHING (WPB 1321) · USCG Southeast District (CGD-SE) · Activity 6078315

Deficiency record · 0

No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.

Casualty record · 8

5 January 2013Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4512138

5 January 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4512150

5 January 2013Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4512159

5 January 2013Routine · role: Transiting Vicinity of Primary Subject · activity 4512168

7 June 2019Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6709982

30 May 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 7820783

19 December 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8227068

22 June 2025Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 8359104

Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.

Ownership record

The Coast Guard's documentation record for this hull -- the Abstract of Title, with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National Vessel Documentation Center, files it here with its date, and every reader of this page gets it.