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| Originally Posted by Ron Mahoney Elfyn,
depends what you want to do with a vessel that size. In Liverpool we were in dock with her two "Insect Class" sister ships - the Scan Scarab and the Cockshaffer - try selling that as a liveaboard - that's why she's becoming the "Fyne Spirit".
The Scan Scarab is a pure salvage boat with large derrick and boom for a 2 tonne grab system. To get her into Lloyds class for a five year ticket runs to between £18-25k. The Fyne Spirit once converted is off Whale watching around the Scottish Isles during the summer and will be off Tenerife in the winter. They have gone for a "super-yacht" ticket but still only licensed for 12. Our class is Board Of Trade - Short Internatiomnal Voyages - still cost around £20k to get her re-flagged (was Belize) and into class. Skippers ticket - if you were thinking of something this size you'd probably have to get a "Commercial Endorsement" to your ticket depending what you've got.
With her size, it took us a while to find our skipper as most with the required tickets earn far in excess of a liveaboard; so we went for a guy who is semi-retired (at 55!!) - in that he doesn't want to spend six months away - but still has all his masters tickets and likes what we want to do. The other thing MCA will come down on with a vessel this size are the qualifications of the engineer - in our case we have a fully ticketed Cheif Engineer and 2nd engineer for offshore work. Thats why the likes of Richie Stevenson at Deep Blue and George Mayer of GEM Marine went for the smaller "Loyal Class".
Hope this helps
ATB
Ron
After thought - it wasn't just a "I wonder if they've got the right (legal) people question was it Elv?!! |
No Ron just curious as its not something you see as a liveaboard a vessel of this size.
now many passengers is it licenced for?
elfyn