Part one renewal: "date of first registration"

[laika]

I'm due my 5-yearly part 1 renewal. It seems that I now need to jump through some additional hoops to prove I own the boat I've been paying to register every 5 years since 2010. Have I got my digital certificate to hand? Yup! so here we go. Name: check! registration number, check! Exact date of first registration...errr...well it was sometime in 2010. 15 years prior to the current certificate's expiration? nope. Add a day? Nope....try a bunch of dates around there in 2010? Nope. Submit a mail to the ship register asking them where the heck I find my date of first registration without finding a physical 15 year old certificate? Waiting for a reply...

Has anyone been through this and am I missing an obvious place to find out what my date of first registration was? without this I apparently can't even begin the new process to renew my part 1 registration

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Recommend that you call them up. They’re very helpful in my own experience.

 

[laika]

So this was weird. After a few days and a bit of back and forth where they were saying "the info's on your certificate" and I was saying "oh no it isn't". Looked again at the web site and the question which I'd previously seen to be "Date of first registration" was Date of expiration of current certificate. Had I imagined the previous question? I'd gone through the process multiple times and it's a completely different question. Maybe I am going mad: I will never know. Anyway. Got through that but then I'm being asked to upload a copy of my bill of sale. This is buried somewhere in a moving box in my garage but the nice people at the uksr told me I didn't need it, and indeed, the web site will allow you to process submit even without it. So mission accomplished and registration renewed for another 5 years but in case anyone else is going through the same process....you don't need to hunt down your bill of sale to renew your registration even though the web site makes you think you do.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Glad you got it sorted.

I’ve scanned all my documents so if I ever need to submit or email something I have a PDF of it to hand.

 

[Blueboatman]

I loved the old For Life registration book.

That’s a proper document

Paying registration ‘rental’ every few years, perhaps less so