Yachts in Europe: new marine safety inspections from Jan 2011

11:43 PM Sun 2 Jan 2011 GMT

'Yachts could be caught in the inspection net now that vessel inspection routine is to change from 25% to 100% in a range of countries' .

Yacht owners in or intending to visit Europe Russia or Canada take note. Effective Jan. 1, 2011, the member states of the Paris 'Memorandum of Understanding' (MOU - an administrative agreement between 27 mostly European maritime authorities) will implement a New Inspection Regime (NIR) for ships and could have a significant impact on yachts, according to Capt. Jake DesVergers, chief surveyor for International Yacht Bureau , an organization that provides inspection services to private and commercial yachts. Writing for The Triton , Captain_DesVergers points out that up until now inspections of yachts by European countries was non-existent because only 25% of ships were inspected and ...

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by Sail-World/Capt. Jake DesVergers, The Triton