BALLAST POINT

Towing Vessel · Built 1970s · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW)

BALLAST POINT is a 1976 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 1 inspection in 2017, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2017.

Records in 2017. Most recent: inspection, 14 January 2017.

Built: 1976
Last inspected: 14 January 2017
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 1
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 1 investigation · 2017
Inspected with: 2 other vessels

This record may be incomplete: the most recent inspection recorded for this vessel was 9 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 Towing Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.

Inspection record

Last inspected 14 January 2017

Recorded inspections1

…with no type recorded1

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 1 calendar year (2017)

This is a sparse record, and that is what the archive holds. 1 inspection recorded in 2017, and no deficiencies were written. This vessel does not appear elsewhere in the 1980–2026 record for its class. An absent record is not evidence of compliance, and it is not evidence of a problem — it is the absence of a record.

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

1125915

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562012

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-562012

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)35.0 ft × 11.8 ft × 7.0 ft

Registered tonnagegross 19 / net 15

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded

ITC tonnageNot recorded

BuilderWILLARD BOAT COMPANY · ANAHEIM, CA, UNITED STATES · built 1976

Hull materialFRP (Fiberglass)

PropulsionUNSPECIFIED

Hull shapeShip

Hull configurationMonohull

Hailing portSAN DIEGO, CA

Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted, Registry

DocumentationValid · issued 26 June 2026 · expires 31 July 2027

Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel

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

Tonnage as PSIX records it19 - Simplified, Gross Ton
15 - 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

A report is not offered for this hull. Its Coast Guard record spans fewer than two calendar years. That is a statement about the record, not about the vessel. What a sparse-record report looks like.

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.

NEWPORT HORNBLOWER Passenger (Inspected) · MISLE 276425 · 14 January 2017 · activity 6075306 EMERALD HORNBLOWER Passenger (Inspected) · MISLE 400746 · 14 January 2017 · activity 6075306

Inspection history · 1

14 January 2017 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector San Diego · USCG Southwest District (CGD-SW) · Activity 6075306

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 · 1

14 January 2017Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 6075306

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.