Bought a new boat but delivered without a CE Plate

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I bought a new boat however it was delivered without a ce plate, I have seen other peoples same boat having the plate on etc but not mine... the company is playing hard to get. Isnt it illegal to sell a boat without CEmark on it? like what has happened here?
Any advice would be helpful
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Since June 1998, all recreational craft new to the European Economic Area (EEA), must meet the requirements of the EU Directive on Recreational Craft or RCD as it is often called.

Every new boat sold or first used in the EU since 16 June 1998 must have a builder’s plate. This plate has the maker’s details and technical information such as the design category, maximum loading weight and engine power. It must also include the CE mark.


What about a few details of the boat please?
 
The JRS website definitely shows boats with the CE plate.

Sounds like your CE plate is in the corner of the workshop behind the cupboard, or being used as a coffee mat instead.

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FlowerPower said:
The JRS website definitely shows boats with the CE plate.

Sounds like your CE plate is in the corner of the workshop behind the cupboard, or being used as a coffee mat instead.

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Thats the one!, Question is, trying to get it :eek: lol
I guess I cant sell it without it aswell...
 
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I think they have broken the law to be honest.

Tow the boat to them, go look at the other boats in the yard, and then point out your missing plate.

Make plenty of fuss... I am sure one will be found very swiftly indeed. If they say they need to make one, make sure you get in writing when that will be, and make them put it on headed paper and sign it, and put some consequence in there if they don't - I.e. "If we don't do it by so and so, we authorise Mr Jim Smith (that's you) to undertake his own CE certification process and understand that the company and / or it's Directors will reimburse the cost of this and any expenses incurred in doing so."

They might not want to do that, so I think they will get a crack on!
 
The stroppy approach could get you a CE plate permamently affixed in the middle of the windscreen.

I'd accept a plate in the post. 15mins with a small drill and a rivet gun, and I could fit it wherever I wanted to. Maybe I'm an easy customer.
 
It's my (rusty) understanding that there must also be a HIN - Hull identification number that MUST be inscribed indelibly somewhere in the hull.

The regulations I remember were the original scheme (haven't had need to note any amendments), but it was said at the time that a pop riveted HIN was not acceptable..
 
TrueBlue said:
It's my (rusty) understanding that there must also be a HIN - Hull identification number that MUST be inscribed indelibly somewhere in the hull.

The regulations I remember were the original scheme (haven't had need to note any amendments), but it was said at the time that a pop riveted HIN was not acceptable..
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The HIN is essential too, but has little to do with CE marking.

The CE plate is absolutely a legal requirement and it is illegal for JRS to have supplied the boat without CE marking.
 
perhaps the plate is somewhere between the paperwork or the manual,
and still needs to be fixed to the hull ?
I had this with a second hand boat I bought some years ago

do you have the orriginal paper CE certificate ?
if you have that, then you are OK,
you can make your own plate,
or if you want I can make one on our engraving machine
 
You should get a written declaration of CE type conformity and a plate or at least a sticker should be applied to the hull.

It is rae in the UK to have every boat individually checked and CE approved, although certain Dutch yards do this on a boat by boat basis,.
Where a boat is from a production line it is normal for just one or two to be checked at first build and thereafter a type/class approval is fitted to all boats as they are all identically built.

It is not necessary, as far as I am aware, for the HIN to be included on the plate but it is normally on the written document.

Go and see them very soon!
 
CE marking is enforced (?) by Trading Standards. Contact them if you fail to get a response through normal means.
 
As it is the boat does not comply with the law and I would have thought that it is a Trading Standards offence to supply a boat without a CE mark. I would reject the boat and ask for another one. Give them a week to get off their bottom to sort it out.
 
to omit fixing such a basic thing as a sticker/plate to a new boat does beg the question just how thorough the rest of their PDI checks were.:(

Be sure to check everything else over very fully, eg, if it is on a trailer, is the trailer EU compliant and are the bearings tightened correctly, does the wheel turn the engine the right way? A simple mistake to make when fixing steering up apparently - believe me I have jumped into a new dinghy to drive it to the mother ship to find that when the wheel turned one way the tender went the other! A quick call to the supplier soon sorted that one out though.:rolleyes:
 
Johnn said:
No phone/emails are answered & 4hrs away... Ill just keep phoning I guess...
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It is a new boat, right? i.e. not new to you, brand spanking, gleaming, shiny mint thing?

Worth checking things like the following it having an auto extinguisher in the engine bay....... there's a list of about half a dozen things (that I've misplaced) that are added to make the unit compliant, if they haven't been done, you've got more than a plate issue and that might be why you're getting a little reluctance to comply so to speak
 
Phone not being answered is usually a sign of trouble.... Are they still solvent?

If not, and about to go bust, a 4 hr drive to get a plate that means you have a boat you can sell in the future and not a very expensive piece of unsellable plastic seems time well spent to me.

Seriously, if they won't answer the phone, then there is no point getting Trading Standards on to them, it will take weeks / months, and by then there may just be an empty yard....

I'd be going tomorrow....

If they AREN'T going bust I apologise in advance to the company for casting aspersions on them!

However in my experience, if a company doesn't answer it's sales line, then it's in real trouble.
 
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