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Here's a competition - how fast can you update your CG66 on the CG website?

The page must be hidden somewhere within the usual corporate b..ll..x but I can't find it.

I dare say you will, but how long did it take you?
 
Jokerboat is right.

Just about impossible to find stuff on the Coastguard website.

The path to the CG66 scheme is

MCGA.gov.uk > Emergency Response > Search and Rescue > UK Maritime Search and Rescue > CG66 - The Voluntary Safety Identification Scheme.

Now find the Colregs on the CG site!
 
OK, I'll be the smart ar..

VicS said:
Just about impossible to find stuff on the Coastguard website.

Now find the Colregs on the CG site!
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A challenge! OK...

Go to MCGA.gov.uk
Enter colregs in the search box
click the arrow
click on the first hit (CNIS, Colregs and the law)
Read down a short way to where it says "The full text of the COLREGS is contained in Merchant Shipping Notice (MSN) 1781. Click here to view the Regulations."
Click "here"

About 15 seconds. Useful as well, as it provides the answer on other threads where people write "but the COLREGS aren't actually law, are they?"

For CG66, enter CG66 in the search box

About 7 seconds
 
EastYachty said:
If you do have any queries with the CG66 or need any help please let me know. The link to the CG66 is https://mcanet.mcga.gov.uk/public/cg66/

And I can be contacted on:
bev.allen@mcga.gov.uk or
cg66enquiries@mcga.gov.uk

Bev
CG66 National Liaison Officer
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Updated mine earlier in the week with no problems. (New HH VHF).
Got a nice email to say it had been done -


CG66 Online Registration - Registration Approval Notification‏
From: postmaster@mcga.gov.uk
Sent: 16 September 2009 22:46:10
To: <<ME>>

Your CG66 vessel registration has been approved. In 23 months time you will be sent a reminder to re-validate your registration. For further information see https://mcanet.mcga.gov.uk/public/cg66/return_pack.htm If you have any queries, please do not reply to this email. Please submita support request via the online forms. Regards, CG66 Customer Support.



Can't say fairer than that !
 
Mine too................ No problems whatsoever. Very painless and straight forward.

Your CG66 vessel registration has been approved.

In 23 months time you will be sent a reminder to re-validate your
registration. For further information see
https://mcanet.mcga.gov.uk/public/cg66/return_pack.htm


If you have any queries, please do not reply to this email. Please submit
a support request via the online forms.


Regards, CG66 Customer Support.
 
Beware CG 66

Be careful of the information that you give to the CG. They sell it on to insurance companies etc.
 
Did my CG66 last week pretty easily - apart from phot not loading, but lots of people had that problem & Eastyachty (Bev) of this parish (see earlier in thread) very kindly offered to help us all out. Top marks to Bev for first class customer service.
 
NormanS said:
Be careful of the information that you give to the CG. They sell it on to insurance companies etc.
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To quote the site

"WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE INFORMATION I SUPPLY YOU WITH?
The information you provide will be entered into a database.

Information provided on the CG66 will only be used for Search and Rescue and Safety purposes. "

Are you alleging that the MCA routinely breaches the Data Protection Act? Do you have any evidence that you could share with us?
 
andygc said:
To quote the site

"WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE INFORMATION I SUPPLY YOU WITH?
The information you provide will be entered into a database.

Information provided on the CG66 will only be used for Search and Rescue and Safety purposes. "

Are you alleging that the MCA routinely breaches the Data Protection Act? Do you have any evidence that you could share with us?
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Yes, earlier tis year many of us boat owners received unsolicited invitations to quote for insurance, from an insurance broker. The enquiry came complete with the full registered name of my boat. It turned out that the MCA had sold this information to a third party (for a paltry sum).
 
NormanS said:
Yes, earlier tis year many of us boat owners received unsolicited invitations to quote for insurance, from an insurance broker. The enquiry came complete with the full registered name of my boat. It turned out that the MCA had sold this information to a third party (for a paltry sum).
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Your allegation was that the MCA had sold the CG66 database. If you have evidence that it did so, you could (and should) report it to the Information Commissioner as a probable breach of the Data Protection Act. If, as seems more likely, the names of the boats and the addresses of the owners came from the Part 1 or Part 111 Registers then all you have is a broker making perfectly lawful access to data contained in a database to which the public can have access in return for an administrative fee. If you don't want unsolicited marketing mail, register with the Mailing Preference Service and when the broker next writes to you complain to the MPS.

Your complaint against the broker is hardly a reason to criticise the CG66 scheme.
 
CG66 When abroad

If I press the red distress button on my VHF in France, will the French CG havce access to my CG66?

(subsitute Spain, Portugal, Morocco etc etc for France)
 
andygc said:
Your allegation was that the MCA had sold the CG66 database.

If you would like to re-read my original post, before you burst a blood vessel, you will see that what I said was:

"Originally Posted by NormanS
Be careful of the information that you give to the CG. They sell it on to insurance companies etc."

They do, and did.

I did not say that the MCA had sold the CG 66 database. I did, however write to the Chief Coastguard, to ask for his assurance that any information which I might give on the CG 66 form, would not be passed to any third party. I received no such assurance.

I used to fill in a CG 66. I no longer do.
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michaelchapman said:
If I press the red distress button on my VHF in France, will the French CG havce access to my CG66?

(subsitute Spain, Portugal, Morocco etc etc for France)
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No the CG66 database is held by UK MRCC's only, however if Falmouth CG were to be involved in an foreign SAR incident then they would have access.
 
In response to the statement that CG66 information had been sold outside of the MCA, I sought clarification of this from HQ, as I assure all owners that the information from a CG66 is used for SAR purposes only. It was confirmed that SSR data has not been sold to any insurance company. It is however a public register.

CG66 on the other hand is not a public register and no one has access to it other than select MCA staff and an owner via their own personal ID and password which only allows them to access own vessel details.

I hope this answers the query.

Bev
bev.allen@mcga.gov.uk
cg66enquiries@mcga.gov.uk
 
EastYachty said:
In response to the statement that CG66 information had been sold outside of the MCA, I sought clarification of this from HQ, as I assure all owners that the information from a CG66 is used for SAR purposes only. It was confirmed that SSR data has not been sold to any insurance company. It is however a public register.

CG66 on the other hand is not a public register and no one has access to it other than select MCA staff and an owner via their own personal ID and password which only allows them to access own vessel details.

I hope this answers the query.

Bev
bev.allen@mcga.gov.uk
cg66enquiries@mcga.gov.uk
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Well, that may be, but I do know that Part 1 Registry information was definitely sold to an insurance company. I can name the insurance company. following that, I asked for an assurance about CG66 information, and did not get any.
 
andygc said:
Your allegation was that the MCA had sold the CG66 database.
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Actually, I think the allegation was that the CG sold information -- not specifically the CG66 database.
If you have evidence that it did so, you could (and should) report it to the Information Commissioner as a probable breach of the Data Protection Act.
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What on earth would be the point of that?
(i) The staff of the Information Commissioner's office know full well that their job descriptions do not include cutting off revenue streams from other government agencies.
(ii) Civil servants do not regard the Data Protection Act as an act intended to protect data. So far as they are concerned, it exists mainly to protect civil servants.
 
NormanS said:
Well, that may be, but I do know that Part 1 Registry information was definitely sold to an insurance company. I can name the insurance company. following that, I asked for an assurance about CG66 information, and did not get any.
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I got assurance from Headquarters and am now passing that assurance on to you. CG66 details are used for Search and Rescue information only.

Bev
 
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