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From: Veiko Rosme Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 10:03 AM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: Consultation_personal, recreational ships Dear Giedre Ivinskiene, Ref to your e-mail from 7th of July 2018 attached please find answers to your questions regarding matter. 1) Registration of personal “self-made” or crafted ships: a. There are no specific procedures registering such crafts if more than 5 years has passed after their manufacture, because usually such carfts are registered already in connection registration procedures when the craft has been completed and taken into use. According to Estonian Maritime Safety Act registration of reacreational craft are mandatory to register if the boat will be used at sea or on navigable inland waters. b. If the manufacturer are local resident then in connection with registration procedures the boat will be marked with identification number. Such older craft imported from other EU states will be not marked with identification number. c. Technical parameters will be determined in connection with preregistration survey by the inspector of Maritime Administartion. d. Drawings (sketches) are not mandatory, but recommandable. 2) Old recreational ships: a. If the boat has any kind of original hull number then it will be used as id number in registration documents, if the boat dont have any hull number then the boat will be identified by ohter characteristics (type, mark, technical parameters). b. For registration purposes are mandatory to present documents which ones prove the ownership. Other documents like copies of technical passports, certificates, manufacturers books, etc. are recommendable ….. c. In such case all necessary information and technical parameters will be determined by the inspector of Maritime Administration during preregistration survey. 3) Substantial alteration of the ship or the engine: a.-b. According to Estonian Maritime Safety Act structural conversion of recreational craft means the replacement of the engine type, replacement of the propulsion engine type, replacement of one propulsion engine for several propulsion engines, conversion of the hull that alters the seaworthiness or maritime safety, and conversion of the hull that significantly affects the stability of recreational craft. 4) Number on the hull. In what cases it is allowed not to have the number on the hull? (if any) All reacreational crafts registered in the traffic register navigating at sea and on navigable inland waters must carry official registration number on both sides of the hull. Registration not mandatory if the boat are used only on inland not navigable waters (small lakes and rivers). Kind regards, Veiko Rosme Senior Inspector Small Craft and Inland Vessel Department Estonian Maritime Administration