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A million questions narrowed down to a few, for now :)
Alan de Enfield replied to Boater floater's topic in New to Boating?
Its not so much the chance of the Police 'getting you' as the possibility of having an accident, and be found moving without permission an unlicenced boat that does not have a safety certificate. It cost nothing to ask and they will not withold permission without good reason so why wouldn't you. -
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Alan de Enfield replied to appo's topic in New to Boating?
It was an IIMS member, (on the way back from doing a boat survey in the Netherlands) who failed my NB BSS as it did not have an RCD, when I pointed out an RCD was advisory only he said in his view it was a requirement and unless I fitted one he woould issue a 'fail. Complained to the BSS who simply said we will check if he needs further training, but refused to tell me the outcome of their investigation. -
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Alan de Enfield replied to appo's topic in New to Boating?
That is how Rolls Royce cars are (were?) built They used to be one of my customers and whenever we had VIPs from other group companies we'd do a RR factory tour for them. When we had an international meeting at one of our USA factories in Florida, they organised a team event of rescucing a live Aligator and us having to carry it about a mile thru the swamp - and, having to memorise a detailed message about its illness to give to the Vet at the other end. All I remember is that "Aligators have nictating eyelids and .............." -
Should I use Surveyor Recomended by Marina
Alan de Enfield replied to appo's topic in New to Boating?
Many of them do both jobs - neither seem to be 'standalone' means of employment, but add another £200 for doing the BSS after/during the survey and it becomes a paying proposition. -
But you are never more than 60nm from land - its not like you are 120nm from land. We reguarly did weekends in Dun Loghaire / Dublin from our moorings at Holyhead and it was 60 miles. Blue water sailing is totally different to 'confined waters' OK my misunderstanding - I thought Gas Safe was a trade organisation and only engineers registered with them were allowed to work on gas
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That was the pieces of paper I mentioned .............
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I too fill my own gas cylinders - decanting from a 47kg, or for the small 100g camping cartridge from a 500g cartridge. Calor Gas even supply a pipe for decanting form one to another. 'Experts' on here say that the hose has valves in it to stop its use as a decant hose, but having spoken to Calor they say it doesn't. No - the nearest I came would be when I was a civilan instructor in the RAF teaching cadets to fly at weekends, or maybe the years I spent writing 'standards' for the NCB As is the GSIUR legislation - the problem is how to prove you are competent, the only acceptable way currently seems to be that you are a member of a trade organisation and have 'a bit of paper' - maybe if you do your own work and it fails that proves that you are not as competent as you think.
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following a meeing of the committe It is endorsed which means it is binding. In summary, endorsement is a straightforward yet significant action in legal documents. It transforms a piece of paper into a binding agreement
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The RSG have been tasked by the European commission to act as an intemediary between the commision and the notified bodies. They are effectiveely the front line between the RCD/RCR and the users. RSG stands for Recreational Craft Sectoral Group, a group charged by the Commission to undertake technical interpretations of the Directive particularly those associated with compliance assessment. The RSG Guidelines have been drafted by the RSG with the objective of helping designers and builders ensure their product complies with, and may be satisfactorily assessed against the Directive. As drafted these Guidelines are the best tool available to assist with ensuring compliance. Part E reproduces the Essential Requirements of the Directive and gives interpretations of what the RSG consider to be the most appropriate method of achieving compliance. The Guidelines reproduce many parts of the Directive including the Annex I, the Essential Requirements to which boats must comply. The RSG gives binding decisons on questions regarding the implementation of the RCD/RCR Example : A notified body or builder aks them a question
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Should I use Surveyor Recomended by Marina
Alan de Enfield replied to appo's topic in New to Boating?
As in the norm. You then either walk away (and just lose your survey cost) or try and negotiate a reduction for any work needed - but - do not have an expectation that the seller will reduce it as much as you want. Both parties are at liberty to walk away and the seller has lost nothing (cost wise) and another buyer will be along soon. You need to decide at what point you 'stop negotiations' and make a purchase - only you can make that decision. I had a 1998 NB with a 12mm base plate, it had never had the base plate painted, blacked or anything - it was raw steel. In 2015 I had the bottom thivkness measured whildt out for blacking - it varied between 12mm and 13mm which would be within the original manufacturing tolerances. -
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Alan de Enfield replied to appo's topic in New to Boating?
The seller could argue that he has already 'priced in' the cost of work needed. If the price asked is comparable with similar boats selling prices then "you can ask", but, he may take the stance that I normally take - " that is my price, there is maybe a little movement, but dont make 'cheeky offers'" You always have the choice of walking away - there are many more boats available. -
Surely, anyone with a modicum of intelligence, wouldn't need the reason for the use of boot-lace ferrules explaining to them. How much dumbing down do we need ?
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A million questions narrowed down to a few, for now :)
Alan de Enfield replied to Boater floater's topic in New to Boating?
You do not need either a licence or a BSS to move a boat 'for repair' but you do need to inform C&RT and get their permission. You may need insurance but talk with C&RT Here is the actual wording in the legislation : (a)The refusal or withdrawal by the Board of a relevant consent in respect of any vessel on the grounds that the vessel does not comply with the standards applicable to that vessel shall not preclude the movement or use of the vessel with the consent of the Board (which shall not be unreasonably withheld) and subject to such reasonable conditions (if any) as they may determine. (b)Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a) above, the Board shall not withhold their consent under this subsection to the movement or use of a vessel for the purpose of taking it to a place where it may be repaired or modified so as to comply with the standards applicable to it, or for the purpose of taking the vessel to be destroyed, unless such movement or use would give rise to the risk of obstruction or danger to navigation or to persons or property. -
This is from the RCD technical section (The RSG) 3. CONFORMITY OF THE PRODUCT Article 14: Presumption of conformity Products which are in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union shall be presumed to be in conformity with the requirements covered by those standards or parts thereof, set out in Article 4(1) and Annex I. And : 4. CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT Article 19: Applicable conformity assessment procedures. The Recreational Craft Directive establishes procedures applying to the assessment of compliance with the Essential requirements. These procedures comply with Council Decision No Decision n. 768/2008/EC concerning the modules for the various phases of the conformity assessment procedures and the rules for the affixing of the CE conformity marking, which are intended to be used in the technical harmonization Directives.It is to be noted, amongst other points, from this Council Decision (in Annex), that: 1. The essential objective of a conformity assessment procedure is to enable the public authorities to ensure that products placed on the market conform to the requirements as expressed in the provisions of the Directives, in particular with regard to the health and safety of users and consumers, 2. Conformity assessment can be subdivided into modules, which relate to the design phase of products and to their production phase, 3.As a general rule a product must be subject to both phases before being able to be placed on the market if the results are positive. Notified bodies should be encouraged to apply the modules without unnecessary burden for the economic operators. The Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, must ensure that close cooperation is organized between the Notified Bodies in order to ensure consistent technical application of the modules, 4. Whenever Directives provide the Manufacturer with the possibility of using modules based on quality assurance techniques, the Manufacturer must also be able to have recourse to a combination of modules not using quality assurance, and vice versa, except where the compliance with the requirements laid down by the Directives requires the exclusive application of a certain procedure. 5. Whenever the NB subcontracts testing or verifies subcontracted testing, etc., it is the responsibility of the NB to ensure that the subcontractor has the facilities and meets the criteria for that function (Annex XIV). As written in the directive for module B, "applicants shall include a written application that they have not lodged an application with any other notified body". This declaration should be extended by a declaration that they have terminated any existing application with another NB for the same product and the same assessment module.