RYA - March PBO?

[Seagreen]

Just read the RYA column in March PBO, specifically where the RYA got legislation repealed which "required capsizes to be reported, etc".

What was this legislation? What did it require?

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Off the top of my head it might have to do with entrapment; being caught under a dinghy hull in a capsize. There was a big issue around entrapment a few years ago after a kid drowned.

Many incidents are recordable and some are reportable. Sailing Schools have to comply with these requirements and report incidents to the MCA / HSE for example.

 

[NormanS]

Just read the RYA column in March PBO, specifically where the RYA got legislation repealed which "required capsizes to be reported, etc".

What was this legislation? What did it require?

Wasn't it part of the SOLAS legislation that came out a few years ago, when even if you were just going out for a jolly, you had to have a "Passage Plan"?

 

[peterb]

What was this legislation? What did it require?

It was a piece of legislation (obviously intended for big ships but being applied to 'all vessels') which required (amongst other things) any collision, grounding, capsize or injury to be reported to the MCA.

Those people with half-tide moorings would have had to put in two reports every day!

 

[timbartlett]

It all happened in 2004-05. The new(ish) boss at the MAIB had got his feet well and truly under the desk by that time, and the MAIB was going through a major empire-building phase. It used the all-too-familiar trick of taking a perfectly sensible EC Directive and "gold plating" it into something expensive but completely useless.

The gist of the EC directive was that it would be a good idea if the authorities didn't have to rely on rumour or the TV news to find out about major shipping accidents or pollution. But the MAIB's gold-plating made it a requirement for all craft to notify the MAIB if they ran aground, capsized, etc.

Fortunately, although the DfT tried to keep the RYA out of the loop, they picked up on it, and persuaded the men from the ministry that it would be less embarrassing to amend their shiny new law "voluntarily" than under the pressure and publicity of a judicial review. So they had a couple more goes at redrafting it, and finally ended up with something that was reasonably acceptable -- and much closer to the spirit of the original EC Directive!!

Here are the statutory instruments concerned:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2004/uksi_20042110_en.pdf
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2005/uksi_20050881_en.pdf
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2005/uksi_20051092_en.pdf