The Place name on the transom - Gosport or Portsmouth?

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Just moved the boat to Haslar. Should the place name on the transom be Portsmouth, because it's Portsmouth Harbour or Gosport because that's the actual place name?

What is the convention? Harbour or place?

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She is SSR - Part 3 registered and the SSR certificate does not mention a port of Registry?
 
"of Orwell" doesn't mean the port of registry tho?

And you can have "of xxx" for part 1 too. We had a boat name "of cape town" to make it a different name under p1, and you can also have "Waste of Time" but without being registred at Time...

Thus if no port of registry he can put anything he likes, or nothing, and "Hull" will be cheaper than "Portsmouth Harbour".

I'd put "Zanzibar" or "Nova Scotia" cos i'm a showoff. There again the "of capetown" was a pain in the bum cos loads of customs officers came round all the time, and if wasn't them it'd be some gigantic afrikaaner shouting greetings and swmbo left seth efrica when she was only three. So probly best to put a uk place name on it. Like er, Hull.
 
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"of Orwell" doesn't mean the port of registry tho?

[/ QUOTE ]Nope... quite right, I don't have a port of registry.

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And you can have "of xxx" for part 1 too. We had a boat name "of cape town" to make it a different name under p1, and you can also have "Waste of Time" but without being registred at Time...

[/ QUOTE ]yep... but under SSR, its just part of the name... whereas under pt1 you be xxxx of cape town from registered port cape town...

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Thus if no port of registry he can put anything he likes, or nothing, and "Hull" will be cheaper than "Portsmouth Harbour".

[/ QUOTE ]Yup!, but would suggest Grimsby as a more exotic alternative

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I'd put "Zanzibar" or "Nova Scotia" cos i'm a showoff. There again the "of capetown" was a pain in the bum cos loads of customs officers came round all the time, and if wasn't them it'd be some gigantic afrikaaner shouting greetings and swmbo left seth efrica when she was only three. So probly best to put a uk place name on it. Like er, Hull.

[/ QUOTE ] or Grimsby /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Not so? Port of registry is not the same as the "of xxx" cos we were P1 and registered name "of cape town" but port of registry was portsmouth. You can't have non-uk port of registry, but you can be "of" summink that isn't a uk port. Like Will of the Wisp or Waste of Money.
 
wot abt "of Basra"? an ex-Secretary of State MoD remarked how unhealthy this place was only for some squaddie to say he felt in more danger on a saturday night in Portsmouth?
 
Better have a vote then

Perhaps not Alice Springs? Best take a vote
 
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She is SSR - Part 3 registered and the SSR certificate does not mention a port of Registry?

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If you look at the small print you will see the SSR is based in Cardiff which is what I put on foreign customs forms when asked for port of registry. If you really do want a port, that's the one /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Technically though you should just put the SSR number instead of a port.
 
Re: P3

I had a friend in Hull built a Cat. He called it Dual and registered it in Hull, so it said

Dual
Hull

on the stern.


Oh, well, just thought you'd like to know.
 
Re: Port on yer bum . . .

If Part I Registered you have no choice - the Port of registry HAS to be displayed on the stern. They even dictate size of letters too. So had you been daft enough to call her Selene of Beech Hill (to distinguish her from Selene of Hayling as that's the club launch) you would still have had to display Selene of Beech Hill AND the port of registry.

But you're part III or Small Ships registered, and can do what you like. So what's the convention?

Don't come on here to suss what's normal or average: the majority of forumites are deviants, rebels and non-conformists! But there is a convention outside these walls - display your home port. That's where peeps will go looking for you or or ask for information. And as Haslar won't mean much to the French Coastguard I'd settle for Gosport.

I know a cleverclogs who named his boat after the nearest port of registry. But that was too long for the yard to type, so he still gets bills for another boat with the same name!!
 
Re: Port on yer bum . . .

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Port of registry HAS to be displayed on the stern

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unless you are a member of certain yacht clubs, when you can use their initials in place of the port of registry
 
the convention of "***** of Portsmouth" is purely a way to get another boat named "*****" Pt 1registry does not allow more than one vessel to have a specific name.

This does not matter for pt 3 registration (SSR) which allows as many boats to have the same name.

Thus a boat named "***** of Portsmouth" is (or at least was) pt 1 registered

a Boat named ***** which also has Portsmouth on the stern, is or was a pt 1 registered boat, first registered in Portsmouth
 
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Thus a boat named "***** of Portsmouth" is (or at least was) pt 1 registered

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Not necessarily - there's nothing to stop you registering such a name on pt 3 if you wish

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a Boat named ***** which also has Portsmouth on the stern, is or was a pt 1 registered boat, first registered in Portsmouth

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The port of registry may be changed at any time for a small fee
 
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