license requirements

Hi,

If you own it outright and self insure it I would say you don't need anything major to operate it.

Licensing should be mandatory to operate any vessel, no matter the size. There are too many who have more "dollars then sense".

I do not believe that the Yachtmaster professional certification is a license, only a certificate for completing the courses from the school.

It is rather strange why every other department in Transportation seems to require a license accept for the personnel marine vessel operator.

Hi,

I do not think there is any Ticket called the Yachtmaster Professional but while checking I found this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/0...ste_of_time_facebook_yachtmaster_dna_outrage/

Paragraph 4 says not much is required in the UK except the Owners permission.

Are you asking about doing this in France?

According to the French Tourist Office:

"A licence is needed to operate French motorised pleasure boats at sea where the actual horsepower of the engine or engines is/are higher than 4.5kW (6 HP). There are three types of licence:

- la carte mer [sea licence]
- le permis mer côtier [coastal licence]
- le permis mer hauturier [deep-sea/ocean licence]

There are specific licences for navigating on inland waters.
Licences to operate motorised pleasure boats at sea only give the right to pilot by agreement. Any person operating a pleasure boat professionally must have the recognised professional qualifications.

The regulations are on http://www.mer.equipement.gouv.fr/ "

Heaven only knows what "pilot by agreement" means.

I don´t think so, talk to John about it: http://www.bluewateryachting.com/crew-training/contact-us

hard to even understand what you're asking! in your first post, you didn't even mention where that mythical yacht woudl be operated or flagged. your home port is listed as france, so if the boat is flagged there, you'll have to abide by their stringent licensing requirement.

as to the last part of your post, it's really meaningless since you will not be able to insure a 100 footer without some license and experience requirement, as well as minimum crew numbers on a 100+ footer.

I think you should add the Gross Tonnage to the question...

Assume you are talking about a commercial or charter yacht, and not a personal boat.

I would say for that size vessel and it is a privately owned British registered yacht you need RYA Yacht Master Ocean and that will allow you to skipper vessels up to 200 Gross Tons. Here in the Med and the UK there is an RYA ICC course that takes one day and you can skipper a vessel up to 24 meters. There are restrictions on this so called licence.

There are no requirement in the US . Nobody is going to arrest you, stop you, fine you if you are running a 115 footer unlicensed and uninsured as long as the boat is not carrying paying passengers

That said, i dont think any owner would take the chance to run such a boat without insurance and they're not going to get coverage without a 200t master and most likely at least one crew. Also, the underwriters are likely to require a full time captain on a boat that size