Day Skipper to France?

[KellysEye]

>Once you're afloat the coast is the dangerous thing ... much more sensible to do a few cross-channel passages in preparation for coastal pottering.

Dangerous, you can't be serious, that would be why most boats I saw were coastal sailing and you see few to none offshore.

 

[Poignard]

Can't see why the taxman cares, but Parsifal says his is valid which I assume includes being up to date.

Pete

Yes. When it comes up for renewal I pay a fee and get a new certificate. If I let it lapse I could lose the right to re-register her under her existing name (if someone else registered their boat under that name in the meantime).

 

[sailorman]

Yes. When it comes up for renewal I pay a fee and get a new certificate. If I let it lapse I could lose the right to re-register her under her existing name (if someone else registered their boat under that name in the meantime).

20 yrs ago there was no requirement to obtain a new cert, jut the original blue book stamped up on change of hands (£50 fee) or loan on the vessel

 

[JumbleDuck]

Once you're afloat the coast is the dangerous thing ... much more sensible to do a few cross-channel passages in preparation for coastal pottering.

Dangerous, you can't be serious, that would be why most boats I saw were coastal sailing and you see few to none offshore.

Bit of a non-sequitur, that, since there reasons other than safety for choosing where you sail.

 

[prv]

People used to do all sort of things in twenty-something foot long boats (and smaller), until it was found to be impossible.

Exactly. My great aunt (and someone else's husband!) went all over the place in their 24 footer in the 50s and 60s.

Pete

 

[Matelot Joe]

Yes. When it comes up for renewal I pay a fee and get a new certificate. If I let it lapse I could lose the right to re-register her under her existing name (if someone else registered their boat under that name in the meantime).

Do you know if this relates to just the blue book or does it extend to the Irish class 1, register as well?

 

[Poignard]

Do you know if this relates to just the blue book or does it extend to the Irish class 1, register as well?

I'm sorry but I don't know. Someone here will know.

 

[Poignard]

Bit of a non-sequitur, that, since there reasons other than safety for choosing where you sail.

Exactly. One never wants to be too far away from a good French restaurant.