Hi guys.
I believe there is a certificate you can get for your vessel that allows you to take it outside the 200Nm limit and, I guess, to overseas ports.
Does anyone know the name of the certificate and who to contact about it?
Cheers!
Are you referring to registering your boat on the Australian register or for insurance purposes?
If it's the former, than I'm sure it's just that, the Australian Ships register, the later.... Well good luck, but you would be best to phone your insurance company. As far as law in traveling out to the 200nm limit, I don't think there is any.
There is no law preventing going further than 200nm. If you want to go to a foreign jurisdiction you need to be a registered Australian vessel. You can go to Lord Howe or Norfolk Islands on state registration.
Most insurance companies have a limit of 200nm unless specifically cleared by the insurance company.
what's happen if the boat is register, but not on Aust Ship Register
you can't go pass horizont to foreign country
Select to expand quoteCharriot said...
what's happen if the boat is register, but not on Aust Ship Register
you can't go pass horizont to foreign country
What are you trying to say Charriot? A boat either has state registration and can't go to a foreign jurisdiction (inside another countries territorial seas) or it is Australian registered and can go to another country. Staying in international waters or Oz waters (the islands) doesn't need Australian registration, just state.
simple hypothetical question
do you need a boat register on Aus ShipnReg when you go to foreign country?
my prev. Swanson was in the past registered, I try to get renewal ..pages and pages..cant be bothered ..sold the boat.
As far as I am aware you only need Australian registration if you are buying overseas and bringing a boat back here. I doubt whether those people paddling Kayaks to NZ are registered Australian ships. I could be wrong. If you are not worried about insurance I think you can go anywhere.
For citizens of Australia you cannot clear customs and immigration unless your boat is on the Aust. ships registry, not sure how the people going to N.Z. in kayaks get away with it, unless there is some kind of dispensation for fools maybe lol
Thanks guys!
Pretty sure that is what I'm after - the Australian Ships Registry Certificate that stays with the yacht.
So a yacht can have it's state registration - but to be able go overseas, you need to have Australian registration also.
Cheers!
As Charriot says, getting Australian registration is a bit of a task and really only for those who wish to take their boat to a foreign destination.
You don't need it to go outside 200nm. Jessica Watson went around the world and didn't need Australian registration. She probably had it in case she needed to go somewhere in an emergency.
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Thanks guys!
Pretty sure that is what I'm after - the Australian Ships Registry Certificate that stays with the yacht.
So a yacht can have it's state registration - but to be able go overseas, you need to have Australian registration also.
Cheers!
Yes and No. See both the post above yours by Bruski and the one below by MB.... It depends on why you are going outside the limit (which for all intents and purposes is an insurance limit).
If you don't intend to make landfall and clear customs in another country, in other words, you sail out there and back for giggles, than no (if you want to sail out there and back in order to qualify the passage for Yachtmaster, than it no longer counts either).
If you intend to visit another country, than that countries Customs and Immigration will want to see one.
You don't need Aust Rego to leave the country, but you do need to get a customs clearance when leaving.
I think the two main reasons is to ensure the boat is not stolen, (both from Aust side and then when arriving in another country) and to make it easier to return, Ie GST and duty. They also like to try and keep track of citizens leaving.
I bought a boat in Queensland and took it overseas, it took customs two days to clear it when leaving Cairns, but otherwise no problem.
