Legalities re tenders, motorbiker style

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Because I have seen 'normous posh motor yacht with a car that got davitted off the stern, which had on the licence plate "Tender to Athene II" or whatever the boat was called...

And me and me mate are thinking about stashing a decent motorbike down below (take the wheels off of course) to provide personal transport in foreign parts

You may think this entirely daft.

Can a motorbike be covered legally round the world, as a designated yacht tender?
 
it was indeed a small car - a jeepette would be a good description. Maybe a moke, or a suzi. Twas a few years past.

And the yacht was 100' or more.

That's the balearics for you
 
Have seen an american mobo using their dinghy hoist to lift a Harley onboard. There is a collapsible motorbike that was sold for boats (IIRC a di blasi (sp)). Alternatively, the go peds make good transport devices, and are relatively easy to stow, but you would need to speak to AA or RAC about legalities.
 
I think ccscott keeps a motorbike on his boat in the Med, so might be worth a pm to him?

Perhaps you should think a bit more ambitiously. In the Eighties, there were two large, and virtually identical, superyachts moored in Monte Carlo Harbour, named Lac I and Lac II. They both belonged to the same guy, and the story went that he ordered Lac II, specifying a specially strengthened stern deck, when he discovered that he couldn't land his helicopter on Lac I.

Problems, problems............ /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
I think that there new Tender may be a Smart car, there was a Smart car parked in Monaco this summer with T/T something like Athena. Made me chuckle.
 
T/T doesn\'t usually mean that

There are lots of cars parked on marina quaysides in France/Monaco with "T/T whatever" painted on the side, but most of them do not get craned onto the yachts. They are just a car bought by the yacht owner for the crew to drive about in, for shopping etc. Frexample Eddie Jordan's sunseeker 105 in Golfe Juan always has a Renault Espace parked at the stern with "T/T The Snapper" decals, but it doesn't get craned on the boat, it just does shopping and airport pickups.

Occasionally though, they do get craned on board superyachts, as people have said. That amphibious Mazda MX7 (forgotten name, Gibbs?) has become popular as a craned-aboard tender car.
 
I have been searching for a folding motorcycle for the last year. All leads have been dead ends, despite one very interesting one to a company that puts a folding joint into monkey-bikes for the "drive you home after a night out" companies. Mine would have to fold really small - like the old 2nd. WW "corgi".
The Di-blasi would not seem suitable for any distance - I suspect 100 miles would give me a crushed sacrum ?
Ken
 
I would be amazed at anything suitable for driving 100+ miles at a time would also be foldable. I thought you were after 10-20 mile capability.
 
For ages I had a 50cc moped on the davits with TT Bambola Quatre painted on it - I was told that it was all I needed to operate legally in France, Spain, Greece, Turkey and Tunisia - so that's what I did and was never questioned by the police in any of those countries - could just have been lucky - I suppose there is an insuranc issue - third party - but how much damage are you going to do with a moped??? Also if it got written off then it cost almost nothing... I have seen several other motorbikes - mopeds on boats trusting to this system buy it may be a RYA question.
 
<<but how much damage are you going to do with a moped?>> You make a mistake, a lorry swerves and wipes out a shop full of meres au foyer and their gosses... the bill doesn't bear thinking about. In France you can get ridiculously cheap insurance for one of those non-number plated mopeds.
 
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