GASTON'S LEGACY

Commercial Fishing Vessel · Fishing Vessel class · Built 2000s · USCG East District (CGD-E)

GASTON'S LEGACY is a 2003 commercial fishing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 8 inspections since 2016, most recently in December 2024, along with 3 casualty investigations between 2005 and 2023.

Records from 2005 to 2024. Most recent: inspection, 9 December 2024.

Built: 2003
Last inspected: 9 December 2024
Documentation: Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
Inspections: 8
Deficiencies: 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
Controls: None recorded without a removal date
Casualties: 3 investigations · 2005–2023
Also recorded as: 1 other name

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 9 December 2024

Recorded inspections8

…with no type recorded8

Deficiencies 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution

Operational controls None recorded without a removal date

Years with a record 6 calendar years (2016–2024)

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

1138317

8986755

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610161

Flag

UNITED STATES

Maury page id

psix-610161

Documentation record

Registered dimensions (L × B × D)88.4 ft × 25.0 ft × 12.5 ft

Registered tonnagegross 136 / net 92

ITC dimensions (L × B × D)88.4 ft × 25.0 ft × 12.5 ft

ITC tonnagegross 180 / net 54

BuilderB & B BOATBUILDERS INC · BAYOU LA BATRE, AL, UNITED STATES · built 2003

Hull materialSteel

PropulsionDiesel

Hull shapeUNSPECIFIED

Hull configurationUNSPECIFIED

Hailing portNEW BERN, NC

Trade endorsementsFishery

DocumentationValid · issued 3 June 2026 · expires 31 July 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 it180 - Convention (Subpart B), Gross Ton
136 - Regulatory (Subpart C or D), Gross Ton
54 - Convention (Subpart B), Net Ton
92 - 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 2 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 · 8

9 December 2024 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC RICHARD SNYDER (WPC 1127) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 8045396

13 August 2023 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Sector Southeastern New England · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 7781113

23 May 2022 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC DEPENDABLE (WMEC 626) · Activity 7458995

29 August 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC BEAR (WMEC 901) · Activity 7299836

26 February 2021 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC ROLLIN A. FRITCH (WPC 1119) · USCG East District (CGD-E) · Activity 7147543

14 October 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · USCGC ESCANABA (WMEC 907) · Activity 6837227

14 March 2019 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Menemsha · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6642697

10 December 2016 Type not recorded

No type recorded · Station Woods Hole · USCG Northeast District (CGD-NE) · Activity 6055710

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

22 January 2005Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 2286659

29 March 2013Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Investigation (non-casualty) · activity 4568945

13 August 2023Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · serious marine incident, as classified · 1 dead · activity 7781113

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.

Recorded names · 1

LUCKY DAY (2005). Names as the Coast Guard recorded them in incident records, with the years they appear; some are renames and some are spelling variants.

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.