What I am getting little of and really want is specific proceedures at specific intervals. You state, "The third part is regular maintenance that is typically required by hours or time and the average boater does it by time" And I still don't know what that is.
It is those other regular maintence items you mentioned needed based on time that I feel are important and Ihave so little input on it. It seems based on the posts that everyone does those things on a random basis when ever they are on their vessel. I would have thought that there are printed schedules either recommended or created based on needs. It would seem to me that a vessel that is this expensive and complex (as compared to a car or light truck) would have all kinds of charts, logs or scheduels that require inspection/actio or replacement at given time intervals.
On that documentation thing, not so much. But everyone here really is trying to help.
Our boat documentation may be typical of relatively recent deliveries: a decent operator's manual (with physical and electrical schematics) produced by the boatbuilder, and then a briefcase full of individual systems manuals for everything else they installed. The engines, the genset, the battery charger, the ACs, the bilge pumps, the freshwater pump, the raw water pump, the cooktop, the microwave/convection oven, the coffeemaker, the faucets, the showerhead, the inside sound system, the outside sound system, the tank gauges, the electronics (each individual component), yaddy yaddy yadda...
All these latter manuals are from the system manufacturers, and these days its not too difficult to recreate all that in softcopy. Given that all of us likely don't have the same internal systems, it's not easy to come up with a blanket schedule that would apply to all boats of a certain class.
Other than what OB and psn and others have tried to describe.
I can tell you I do daily checks of almost everything in sight, when aboard. Sometimes the check are cursory; for example, if the freshwater system works at the faucet when I make coffee, and the pump's not running on, good to go. Today. Probably. And so forth. But if something needs fixing, I fix it... either immediately or as soon as possible after ordering parts/tools. And using the freshwater example, just 'cause I "checked" it today, that doesn't mean a fitting might not work loose tomorrow.
OB mentions running engines up to temps; ours won't hardly get there, idling at the doc. So doing that means taking a nice little river cruise, weekly, at the very least. Which in turn also holds down bottom growth...
And I do that with the genset running and a load on, so it gets a workout too.
-Chris