SSR Registration Certificate

[Wandering Star]

I’ve just received my boats SSR registration as a .PDF file via email. Is that it? What happened to the small laminated certificate they used to send out?

 

[Tranona]

Went years ago! Print it off and laminate it yourself if you fancy.

 

[Lightwave395]

I was fined £150 euros by the Douanes in Southern Brittany a couple of years ago for not having what they perceived as 'an original laminated certificate' so maybe worth keeping the email handy too

 

[mjcoon]

Did the old certificate have any built-in validation mechanism such as a hologram, demonstrating that it was not home-made? Or the new one have at least a QR code that can be used on-line to validate it digitally? (Like Covid-19 certification.)

 

[Poignard]

Same with the full registration certificate . Here is the answer I had from a MCGA Customer Service Advisor when I asked about having a 'proper' certificate:

 

[Wandering Star]

Did the old certificate have any built-in validation mechanism such as a hologram, demonstrating that it was not home-made? Or the new one have at least a QR code that can be used on-line to validate it digitally? (Like Covid-19 certification.)

Well there’s the thing, a quick edit of the .PDF certificate and my boat can shrink from 9.7 meters to 5 meters which should help to make marina fees more affordable. Just about every marina office I’ve checked into, takes the length of the boat from the registration document.

 

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Well there’s the thing, a quick edit of the .PDF certificate and my boat can shrink from 9.7 meters to 5 meters which should help to make marina fees more affordable. Just about every marina office I’ve checked into, takes the length of the boat from the registration document.

You need two versions, one for Aduanas which corresponds to insurance certificate, one for marinas. So I'm told.

 

[stuartwineberg]

Just got it, there is a watermark in the pdf, not sure what difference that makes to proving authenticity

 

[Yealm]

I wasn’t going to bother renewing..
Is it a requirement for visiting France?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

I wasn’t going to bother renewing..
Is it a requirement for visiting France?

I thought that technically itks a requirement if you go more than 12 miles offshore, and definitely for France, though I’ve never been asked for any documentation apart from a passport, and a small stack of forms, the French do love a bit if that.

 

[LadyInBed]

I wasn’t going to bother renewing..
Is it a requirement for visiting France?

YES.

 

[westernman]

Did the old certificate have any built-in validation mechanism such as a hologram, demonstrating that it was not home-made? Or the new one have at least a QR code that can be used on-line to validate it digitally? (Like Covid-19 certification.)

The new ones have a QR code which links to an online version of exactly the same certificate.

 

[sailaboutvic]

In the last few months we have visited France , Belgium and now we in the Netherlands, not been asked for it,

Opening posting , yes that's how it comes now.

 

[Yealm]

Discrepant responses - two saying France didn’t ask for it (nor was I) and one saying yes you need it.

If it is the law in France that foreign boats need registration, is there a minimum size?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Discrepant responses - two saying France didn’t ask for it (nor was I) and one saying yes you need it.

If it is the law in France that foreign boats need registering, is there a minimum size?

I take you mean the number on the boat? I think that's 35mm on small craft, though it’s on the MCA web site, I read it once, put 50mm numbers on and forgot about it. They must stand out, but there's no colour stipulation. Our certificate we laminated ourselves, but as I say, no Frenchman has yet inspected my handiwork.

 

[dunedin]

Discrepant responses - two saying France didn’t ask for it (nor was I) and one saying yes you need it.

If it is the law in France that foreign boats need registration, is there a minimum size?

No discrepancy.
A UK boat visiting France must by law be registered, either SSR or Part 1.
Not every boat is asked for this by port officials when arriving, or visiting a marina.
But if asked and cannot show then expect trouble.

 

[Yealm]

I take you mean the number on the boat? I think that's 35mm on small craft, though it’s on the MCA web site, I read it once, put 50mm numbers on and forgot about it. They must stand out, but there's no colour stipulation. Our certificate we laminated ourselves, but as I say, no Frenchman has yet inspected my handiwork.

Sorry no, boat size below which registration not required..

 

[Yealm]

No discrepancy.
A UK boat visiting France must by law be registered, either SSR or Part 1.
Not every boat is asked for this by port officials when arriving, or visiting a marina.
But if asked and cannot show then expect trouble.

Yes but if in practice it’s never asked for, then it doesn’t matter (to me at least ).
I guess trying to get a sense of what people do - eg 100% have registration when going to France, or 50% etc

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Sorry no, boat size below which registration not required..

Far too small to cross the channel. 3m? Though there is that guy who is crossing the atlantic in a hip bath….

 

[Yealm]

Far too small to cross the channel. 3m? Though there is that guy who is crossing the atlantic in a hip bath….