New owner of YM senior boat in need of help!
Posted: Wed July 22nd, 2020, 10:46 pm
Hello everyone,
I have just bought the YM Senior named Mikros you can see on the photo gallery of Eventides. I am so excited with this boat! I am fascinated by DIY and boat building and last week whilst looking for a club to join and learn to sail with my mirror dinghy - my first boat and the boat I had finished refurbishing - I found Mikros, fell in love and... well you know the rest!
Now my hurdle is that I do not have experience in sailing and much less experience in owning a boat. up to the moment I just kept a mirror in my garden that I cared for, learned to rig and would rig on the weekends for practice - at this point I should say I am 40, not 15 hehe
So:
I have a friend that has been sailing from early age, has experience with many small boats and for the last few years has been sailing in the UK (south bank Sailing club in London). He is very happy to be part of this adventure and teach me how to sail.
What I really am struggling at the moment is with understanding what I need to be able to have the boat in the water:
- I intend to have it on the river Medway and Im contacting mooring locations in Gillingham (Does anyone know anyone?)
- I have also contacted CraftInsure and got a quote from them (86GBP)
- do I need a BSS certificate?
- I will need to register the boat with the Environment Agency boat registration is this correct?
- any other issues I need to tackle that I am not understanding?
Also, does anyone have a boat around this area and can share some wisdom?
Thank you all for your time and patience to read this email,
Kind regards,
Joao
I have just bought the YM Senior named Mikros you can see on the photo gallery of Eventides. I am so excited with this boat! I am fascinated by DIY and boat building and last week whilst looking for a club to join and learn to sail with my mirror dinghy - my first boat and the boat I had finished refurbishing - I found Mikros, fell in love and... well you know the rest!
Now my hurdle is that I do not have experience in sailing and much less experience in owning a boat. up to the moment I just kept a mirror in my garden that I cared for, learned to rig and would rig on the weekends for practice - at this point I should say I am 40, not 15 hehe
So:
I have a friend that has been sailing from early age, has experience with many small boats and for the last few years has been sailing in the UK (south bank Sailing club in London). He is very happy to be part of this adventure and teach me how to sail.
What I really am struggling at the moment is with understanding what I need to be able to have the boat in the water:
- I intend to have it on the river Medway and Im contacting mooring locations in Gillingham (Does anyone know anyone?)
- I have also contacted CraftInsure and got a quote from them (86GBP)
- do I need a BSS certificate?
- I will need to register the boat with the Environment Agency boat registration is this correct?
- any other issues I need to tackle that I am not understanding?
Also, does anyone have a boat around this area and can share some wisdom?
Thank you all for your time and patience to read this email,
Kind regards,
Joao