Recreational Craft Regulations in UK

The Old Town of Marmaris

Dear yacht brokers, look what I found these days. I have copied the regulations from a brochure which seems to be legit. Advice to Yacht Brokers The Recreational Craft regulations first came into force on 16th June 1998. The regulations were updated in 2004 to include personal watercraft and propulsion engines. Whilst these regulations are product specific to boats they are not the only Trading Standards legislation to affect this trade sector. This advice sheet is designed to offer some simple guidance and answer some basic questions to help keep you on the right side of the law. Recreational Craft Regulations 2004 (RCD) As a general rule most boats built after 1998 should be CE marked. There are numerous exemptions to this rule, all of which require some evidence that the exemption applies for the craft to be legally used or sold within the European Union (EU). Compliant craft will have: a CE mark on the builder’s plate, a Craft Identification Number (CIN) and a declaration of conformity in the owner’s manual. A craft should have all 5 items. The existence of which can be easily checked. Craft in use as recreational craft in European waters before 16/6/98 are not caught by the RCD. Used craft of non-EU origin need some credible evidence of … [Read more...]

Yet more yacht manufacturer lists

Alden 1929 model classic schooner

In a previous post, I have compiled a list from the prestigious site yachtworld.com, a site managed by a multinational corporation, and one of the best represented on the internet, in the business. The same corporation owns Boats.com maybe the most connected and logical name for a domain in this branch. Anyway, the research one made there, is dynamic, is always changing, because new names appear overnight and the lists are different on any new search. Unfortunately, sometimes, this is not very good for sellers, they have to be lucky to be contacted after one boat search, otherwise their listing could be lost in a "sea" of new listings, and so on. Anyway, if you are smart, you are not selling your boat or any boat, waiting to be "researched" by potential customers, as the site pretends, :). They are of good help generally speaking, because there are some tricks you have to do to come up in any search there, so your chances to sell as a broker, are greater. Nice, isn't it? It is, indeed. Now because of their dynamic change, I come up with another two or three lists of yacht manufacturers, with some of the names from my previous list, present or not, depending the rank, the number of listing, I don't know, there are a lot of factors, I'll expose maybe later or never. I'm eliminating … [Read more...]

Yacht manufacturers

Huge ship, huge business

It is absolutely useful to have a list with all the branded yacht builders. I'm going to use an alphabetical list, inspired by their presence on yachtworld.com, far and away the most prepared site regarding yacht buying and selling. The brokers have the opportunity to express themselves there, with personalized pages and presentations. I'm not advertising the site, because they're not careful enough to expand what they have already developed. They are a multimillion dollar site anyway, so, no need to fuss about the list. They offer a top 75 Boat Builders, as follows (I'm not keeping the links on the list itself, because of SEO reasons, but I'll insert them when I'm going to present all of the builders, in detail): Aquastar, Aquador, Arvor, Azimut, Bavaria, Bayliner, Beneteau, Birchwood, Broom, Chaparral, Chris-craft, Colvic, Contessa, Corvette, Cranchi, Crownline, Dehler, Doral, Dufour, Elan, Etap, Fairey, Fairline, Feeling, Fisher, Fletcher, Four Winns, Freeman, Glastron, Grand Banks, Hallberg-rassy, Halmatic, Hanse, Hardy, Hunter, Island Packet, J Boats, Jeanneau, Legend, Leisure, Maxi, Maxum, Monterey, Moody, Najad, Narrowboat, Nauticat, Nelson, Nicholson, Nimbus, Oyster, Pelican, Princess, Regal, Ribeye, Rinker, Rival, Rodman, Sadler, Sea Ray, Sealine, Seamaster, … [Read more...]

Pricing in a Marina

Marina

I just found this table for the pricing method of some Turkish Marina, which may be a custom there, but one have to check first. For a calculation in advance, it is good to anticipate. To calculate your price, multiply your boat LOA with your beam to get square meters, then find the column corresponding to this size. As you see there are sizes between 24 - 59.99 m², 60 – 119.99 m², 120 – 179.99 m² and 180 m² and more, fact that makes four area columns. The time period is calculated in days, and as you see, the smallest factor is for a whole year. Find the multiplication factor for the number of days you plan to stay. Then, multiply this factor with the boat area you found in m² and after that, multiply it with the number of days you plan to stay. The result will be the price in Euros, for the whole period. The best part is that this includes a half price haul and launch with ten days of hard standing, with the water and electricity costs also included. Let’s say you own a Beneteau Oceanis 58, and you plan to stay 365 days. Multiply 18.24 m LOA with 4.99 beam which makes the area 91.01 m². You look in the 2’nd area column the 60 – 119.99² column and find the multiplication factor 0.255 Multiply 91.01 with 0.255 and the result with 365 and you’ll have the price … [Read more...]