JOHN START

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1980s · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW)

JOHN START is a 1987 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2016, most recently in December 2021, along with 2 casualty investigations between 2020 and 2021.

Records from 2016 to 2021. Most recent: inspection, 8 December 2021.

Built: 1987
Last inspected: 8 December 2021
Documentation: Expired · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 7
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 2 investigations · 2020–2021
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 5 years ago. Maury shows what the Coast Guard recorded, not whether the vessel has been inspected since, is still in service, or what condition it is in. 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 8 December 2021

Recorded inspections7

…with no type recorded7

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 5 calendar years (2016–2021)

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

949114

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WDI5929

331012

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-331012

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)38.0 ft × 12.0 ft × 5.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 16 / net 13

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderMOSS LANDING BOAT WORKS · MOSS LANDING, CA, UNITED STATES · built 1987

Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portVENTURA, CA

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationExpired · issued 30 June 2004

Service, as the file records itCommercial Fishing Vessel

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

Tonnage as PSIX records it16 - Simplified, Gross Ton
13 - Simplified, 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.

AELITA Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 1199190 · 8 December 2021 · activity 7400259 OCEAN PRINCESS Commercial Fishing Vessel · MISLE 1332251 · 20 November 2020 · activity 7100146

Inspection history · 7

8 December 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Santa Barbara · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7400259

20 November 2020 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Santa Barbara · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 7100146

15 May 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Channel Islands Harbor · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6495788

16 January 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Channel Islands Harbor · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6338856

17 April 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC BLACKFIN (WPB 87317) · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6126934

26 August 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC BLACKFIN (WPB 87317) · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 5987486

27 January 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Channel Islands Harbor · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 5805405

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 · 2

20 November 2020Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7100146

8 December 2021Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 dead · activity 7400259

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.