any advice for new boater

[scot]

If as a first timer, what kind of experience/training or such like should I have, to be able to bring a 20-22ft motor boat up the east coast (are there areas you cant do) if I was to leave from skegness or great Yarmouth, back to edinburgh (port seaton) `` is there paper work needed? stuff like that?

 

[webcraft]

Congrats on somehow creating the most useless poll to date - quite an achievement, there have been some good previous efforts by regular posters but you have outdone them!

No paperwork required.

It is certainly technically possible - I have motored most of the way up the East Coast in a 23ft Colvic Watson. Make sure you have a sensible method of refuelling at sea. No paperwork required, although you would be well advised to have at least a hand-held VHF, which you require an operators license for.

Training - yes, a very good idea if you have no experience. It might just be cheaper (and safer) to get the boat put on a truck and then start learning once you get to your new home port.

You might be better posting this on the MoBoChat forum.

- Nick

 

[Solitaire]

As has already been suggested, you should have posted on the motorboat chat forum. Anyway, wellcome! At the very, very minimum you should have the Level 2 Powerboat certificate. For the kind of trip you are talking about, navigation to at least Day Skipper standard. A good knowledeg of passage planning and tides.

I know Port Seaton, I used to launch my boat from there when I livid in North Berwick. The Forth is an interesting bit of water for a small boat. And even when you come round from Dunbar, the swell is very significant. In the three years I was there, I tried every year to get out to the Isle of May in 20ft boat. Never made it! Did countless trips around the Bass Rock though. Till I finel had enough of the stench of gannet quano! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

A good waether window is also essential and you wouldn't do it in a couple of days either! I suggest you bung it on a trailor!

 

[Das_Boot]

Make sure it fits on your head properly you dont want it blowing away when the wind strengthens.