[email protected] wrote: > Certificate of Seaworthiness. Unless the requirement have changed this has to > be undertaken by a a surveyor approved by the company.The cheapest method is > to use a surveyor who will undertake the job, on block, for a number of boats > at the same time. CKP > > On our first trip in 1983 we used a well-known boat surveyor from the south of England who just happened to be there as he was taking part in the same convoy that we were. He asked one questionL: "Is it a sinker?" We said "no", he signed the certificate and gave it to us. We gave it to one of our fellow crew members and sent him off along the canal bank on a bike to the MSC office to get the licence. I remember another of my fellow crew members saying "are you sure we sent the best person" on hearing that he could neither ride a bike properly nor swim.
Certificate presented, licence issued, off we went. An hour or so later, as we were being towed past Trafford, we finally got the engine to start... Have things changed since then?
