14th March
Started epoxy glassing the deck.
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Second glassing session in preparation. Section over companionway glassed and peel ply removed. - done yesterday.
Last of deck epoxy glassed over and covered with peel ply. Next job is the cockpit. Glass cut and ready to go for tomorrow. I should slow down as once the sheathing is finished I have to screed and sand to get a finish for painting. That is the worst job about building a boat. At least the interior is 99% finished with just some touch up painting on the underside of deck glue joints.
Started the process for registration in Poland and found an extremely efficient agent who will process my registration and MMSI for radio,ais and EPIRB. I just have to get Nuts closer to completion with all documentation before the application can be made.
Got to pull my finger out and get out of bed before lunchtime. 😁
If you both live in and are building the boat in Portuguese territory shouldn’t the boat be registered Portuguese?
ReplyDeleteI have owned 3 boats in Portugal in the past 30 years. The first was British registered and a private Yacht. No problems and just had to comply with Portuguese regulations at the time (like a metal bucket of sand as a fire extinguisher) 2nd boat (Portuguese registered) was a tourist operation and had to comply with all the commercial regulations. A bit of a nightmare but it is what it is and Im sure it is the same all over the world. 3rd boat (Portuguese registered) which I still own and operate is a small private fishing boat which is inspected every 5 years and has to comply with all the safety requirements. Perfect- and I do not have any problems with the requirements. In Portugal there are zones of boat registration. If you go more than 5nm from a port things get more complicated. If you want to cross an ocean a Setka would sink with all the requirements as well as being complicated with operator licenses. Fortunately I have a Portuguese Ocean Master license as well as a radio operators license. The cost of flying an official surveyor from Lisbon and putting them up in a hotel etc to get the boat registered would probably cost the same as the whole boat. The Azores is part of the EU and therefore recognizes other EU countries laws. Poland offers a very favourable system hence the attraction. I have friends from Germany that have also registered their big sailing cat in Poland. There are also private fishing boats registered in Poland in the Azores. I will still have to comply with safety regulations (flares, life jackets etc) but would not have to get a survey from Lisbon. Fedships built in the Netherlands are normally registered in the Cayman Islands or Bermuda. It is all about making life less complicated.
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