KAI AKU

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 1970s · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW)

KAI AKU is a 1972 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 4 inspections since 2018, most recently in January 2025, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2012 and 2019.

Records from 2012 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 15 January 2025.

Built: 1972
Last inspected: 15 January 2025
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 4
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2012–2019

Identity

540531

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WUS5089

47215

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-47215

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.

Inspections, by type

Recorded inspections4

…with no type recorded4

Years with a record 3 calendar years (2018–2025)

Every line above is a count of records the US Coast Guard wrote, or a date it recorded. The counts in the strip above are the same counts; this table splits the inspections by the kind of activity 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.

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)32.6 ft × 12.1 ft × 5.3 ft

Registered tonnagegross 14 / net 10

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderMODUTECH PLASTICS INC · TACOMA, WA, UNITED STATES · built 1972

Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)

PropulsionDiesel Reduction

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portTRINIDAD, CA

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 29 April 2026 · expires 30 April 2027

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 it14 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
10 - 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

A report is not offered for this hull. Its record holds only 1 of the seven kinds of material a report is built from: inspections, deficiencies, operational controls, tow-unit appearances, casualty records, dimensions and documentation. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

Inspection history · 4

15 January 2025 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC BARRACUDA (WPB 87301) · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 8071767

15 April 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Humboldt Bay · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6664905

10 January 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Humboldt Bay · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6335859

10 January 2018 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Marine Safety Detachment Humboldt Bay · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6345466

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 · 3

20 January 2012Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 4233208

10 January 2018Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6345466

15 April 2019Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6664905

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.