Documentation

[purplerobbie]

I have the chance of a 3 month cruise and was wondering what documentation I would need?
I have the boat docs all up to date but what docs would I need?

Do you get asked for an Icc often? Is it worth putting off a cruise until next year and getting one?

What else would I need?

 

[Tony Cross]

I guess it depends where you're going. In the eastern Med all I'm ever asked for is the registration document, passports and sometimes the insurance (by marinas mostly). I've never been asked for my ICC (though technically I could be) nor have I been asked for the VAT receipt (though again I could be).

 

[duncan99210]

There's a guide to what you need on the RYA website. That said,all we've ever been asked for is passports, SSR and insurance. Others have been asked for ICC, radio licence, radio operators cert and proof of VAT status, although the last is rare and usually related to new boats.

 

[GrahamM376]

There's a guide to what you need on the RYA website. That said,all we've ever been asked for is passports, SSR and insurance. Others have been asked for ICC, radio licence, radio operators cert and proof of VAT status, although the last is rare and usually related to new boats.

+1

 

[eagle160]

In both sardinia and corsica I've been asked for insurance, registration and licence for which I used day skipper doc without issue (although have icc) by customs random checks. Not sure if vat evidence was asked, don't think so

Edit : don't put of cruise for the Icc! Not sure Icc is even legally required of you own the boat, I thought it's mostly charter companies wanting to see it.

 

[Carmel2]

I have the chance of a 3 month cruise and was wondering what documentation I would need?
I have the boat docs all up to date but what docs would I need?

Do you get asked for an Icc often? Is it worth putting off a cruise until next year and getting one?

What else would I need?

In 12 years I have been asked once for my ICC, it was last year in Turkey by an agent who thought the new customs guy might be a bit of a stickler. In the end he was not interested at all, he took one look at our Blue Card, laughed out loud and tossed it back over the desk.

Don't put your cruise off but get a RYA instructor on board and do your ICC as part of the cruise, if you are a real numb nuts it will only take a week, if you have half a brain a few days.

 

[jimbaerselman]

I have the chance of a 3 month cruise and was wondering what documentation I would need?
I have the boat docs all up to date but what docs would I need?

Depends where you're going to cruise, whether you own the boat, what nationality you are, what country the boat is registered in, whether it's VAT paid or not . . . the list goes on.

But if you're an EU citizen, sailing an EU registered boat, and you're going to Croatia from (say) Italy or Greece, you'd have to produce for the boat:

Registration document
Third party insurance certificate
Ships radio licence

And for yourself:
Passport
ICC or equivalent proof of competence
Permission to skipper (if you're not an owner on the reg document)

For someone on board (it could be you):
Radio operator's certificate

But then, Croatia is a stickler for detail.

For UK, if it's an EU boat, you're from the EU, and you don't use the VHF, you don't require any papers at all, though you may be refused use of some marinas without third party insurance. Oh, and boats over 13.7m have to have rubbish disposal instructions aboard . . .

I suppose the UK assumption is that anyone who survives our weather, tidal effects, drying banks and commercial shipping had to have been competent and using a seaworthy boat. Otherwise, Darwinian selection would have sent boat and crew to the deeps.

 

[macd]

I wouldn't swear to it, Jim, but I think the only mandatory 'document' required for most boats in the UK is a cartoon precis of search and rescue procedures: no reg doc, insurance, log book or anything else, although VHF licence and operator's licence are of course required if you have one and use it for anything but emergencies.

 

[prv]

get a RYA instructor on board and do your ICC as part of the cruise, if you are a real numb nuts it will only take a week, if you have half a brain a few days.

Few days?! My parents (wanting to charter in the Med) did theirs in Lymington in about half a day.

My mum, who can sail alright but never touches navigation, was a bit worried about that part. Afterwards her verdict was "it was really noddy".

Pete

 

[duncan99210]

ICC. Go to the RYA website and you'll find the requirements for an ICC assessment, which can be done by an RYA Training Centre in less tha a day. If you have the required competence, that's all you need to do: you don't need to hold any RYA qualifications, just do the assessment and send off the fee and paperwork to the RYA. As I said, we've been cruising for five years now and have never been asked for our ICCs at all but they are a requirement in most EU countries.