Harsh, and TBH unnecessarily abusive, mate. It's a new system, things go awry. If you have never made a mistake you have never learned anything. And of course yotties are born with perfect docking capabilities aren't they? Not.
I emailed them on late Friday and had a reply on the Saturday regarding SSR. Wasn't expecting that ! Have also found the website easy to use.
The free Ofcom licence may be because one of their directors, who I think was involved in setting up the MMSI systems, was a keen yachtsman.
Probably part of the same political hang up that required voters to provide a photo ID to vote but throws major tantrums at the mere mention of a standard ID cards for all.
That is correct and you also if you have them need to tregister your EPIRB and Personal locator beacons with the coastguard to link the safety system to your boat..
Or did their political masters think it cheaper to outsource the software design and build? Probably to a good political donor.
Or possibly austerity measures have cut things to the bone and they just low paid, low morale folks muddling through as best they can? I have found a polite email generally gets things resolved fairly quickly.
Sounds like you will have to claim it by registering etc. Is the existing certificate valid or did they just send you the old one ?
Email or ring them. They seem very helpful.
Well, mine is there with an expiry date in 2026. I'd be more likely to aim my ire at the political masters who decided this was a cash cow rather than the poor Civil Service who are understaffed and underpaid. In my experience the CS are helpful and understanding.
At £6 / year the licence is possibly good value compared with other countries not that I would tell the CS that !
I had several of those, but with 14 years of austerity there was no money to produce them and we are left with a PDF and printing them out ourselves.