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Yacht Master's Guide to the UK Flag

The Large Yacht Code mainly deals with issues specific to yachts, such as construction and manning standards. There are a number of other legal requirements which apply to all types of UK ships, including yachts, and the MCA has identified a need to provide some guidance to masters, and owners/ managers, on the nature of these and what to do about them.

The MCA has now produced a Master's Guide to the UK Flag - Large Yacht Edition which is intended to be an quick reference guide to some of the issues covered during a master's UK Certificate of Competency or UK Legal and Administrative Procedure (UKLAP) courses. Subjects covered are:

• Manning qualifications (CECs, STCW watch rating, medical certificates and discharge books).
• Hours of work
• Crew agreements
• Official log books and their completion
• GMDSS logs
• Health and Safety (Officials, committees and risk assessments).
• Medical stores and care
• Surveys, audits and ILO Inspections
• Continuous Synopsis Records
• UK Publications to be carried
• Training

The Master's Guide is available to download  Please click The Master's Guide  (379 kb)

Please note that some photographic pages in this version have been removed to reduce download size.

For a printed copy of the guide or a CD version which incorporates the guide and copies of the Merchant Shipping Notices referred to please contact Ensign at large.yachts@mcga.gov.uk

revised 19/02/2010