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Information and guidance notes for keeping a sailing vessel stable in typical sailing conditions.
Survey documents and guidance information from UKSR LYS of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
Practical guidance for surveyors carrying out an inclining test, and determining a ship's stability.
Notice to all owners, managing agents, skippers, designers, builders, surveyors, crew and certifying authorities of yachts and powerboats including pleasure vessels and small commercial vessels
Codes of Practice detail the regular maintenance requirements of safety equipment and systems to a high standard, as is required to maintain fishing certificates.
Notice to all owners, managing agents, skippers, designers, builders, surveyors, crew and certifying authorities of yachts and powerboats including pleasure vessels and small commercial vessels.
Find out if your business needs to publish a tax strategy, what it should include and when to publish it.
Notice to all designers, builders, surveyors, owners, managing agents, skippers, crew and Certifying Authorities of yachts and powerboats including pleasure vessels and small commercial vessels.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
To be completed as part of the approval process.
The 12-stage process on how a marine plan is made from selection to implementation and monitoring and how you can get involved.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
This MSN outlines the certification structure, training and assessment requirements for yacht deck officers.
The 2013 update, edition 3, of the large commercial yacht code.
Training record book for yacht ratings and officers in charge of a navigational watch, yachts less than 3000 GT.
If you're a non-UK resident temporarily importing a vessel, check if you can get relief using Temporary Admission (TA) and the rules that apply while your yacht is under the TA procedure in the UK.
The form to be completed by the classification society on completion of survey
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Lord Fairley on 6 March 2024.
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