They are Dutch. The law in the Netherlands concerning a license or certification does not cover boats smaller than 15 meters, thus many boats are 14.95 meters in length. Above 15 meters you have to have a certificate of competence. Spain and France have the certificate system also and I am not sure what length of boat that begins at...
As far as I know, from 5 years ago when I left the EU, France was/is the only country enforcing a boat category system for offshore trips. The racers in the Mini-Transat are all outside of the French law when they sail across the Atlantic. They start in France and cruise the coast and then go offshore after they have departed French waters. Rosalie wrote: > Are they Dutch? What's to stop them from going somewhere else and setting > out from there? > > --- _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
