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Sorry if this upsets anyone who thinks their Yanmar is a "purpose built marine engine" but Yanmars are converted tractor engines, just like Kubotas. See yanmartractor.com. Also, John Deere engines and tractors are rebadged Yanmars which is why you don't see Yanmar tractors in countries where John Deere are sold. There's really no difference between a Beta or Nanni based on the Kubota tractor engine or a Yanmar based on a Yanmar/John Deere tractor engine, except the silly price of spare parts. For the Kubota-based engines you can readily buy the parts at tractor prices, Yanmar not so ea

St Peter Port is in Guernsey not Jersey (A beautiful little port with insane tides). The main port in Jersey is St Helier but in fact Jersey registered boats (except those actually owned by locals) are required to put "Jersey" as the port of registry on their stern, not St Helier.

We were very happy with it overall. There was a bit of delay with things being posted to jersey and back and they were very nice but not quick to respond, otherwise all went smoothly. Had to send photos of the boat name to prove the letters were big enough (10cm high). Also had to fix a registration number plate to a bulkhead with phillips screws, then drill out the heads of the screw to make them look like rivets and send a photo! Lots of other flags also a need tonnage measurement certificate so your boat may already have one from a previous registration if you're lucky. I think Jersey w

Jersey don't require a survey, just a tonnage measurement. Survey is only needed for commercil vessels. The measurer (usually an IIMS surveyor) gets out a tape measure and measures the internal volume of the boat, then uses an equation to work out the theoretical number of Tuns (large barrels) which would fit inside. This is because cargo ships have historically always been taxed on the number of tuns they can carry (their tunnage). Technically should be called a tunnage measurement, not tonnage as it's measuring volume not weight. When customs forms ask for your tonnage that's what you're sup

Very handy for the town. Sheltered and stunningly beautiful location. Walk-ashore berth on my private jetty comes available in November. Would suit a large catamaran up to 15m waterline and 9.5m beam (Additional bowsprits and overhangs no problem). Separate access from road, delivery of post & collection of rubbish available. Ideal for a live-aboard. Would also suit one large monohull or could take two monohulls sharing at a bargain price but one would need to move to let the other one out. Price depends on your boat but significantly less than a marina. I have pile moorings availa

Take a look at Jersey (Channel islands), it's very cheap and easy, plus it's open to any commonwealth citizen (including Kiwis) and also to EU citizens I think. You can fly either a Jersey flag (red ensign with lions on it) or a British red ensign and you get all the protection of British Navy etc. All you need is a tonnage measurement certificate which most UK surveyors can give you. When we got ours Curly Hayter was the licensed surveyor to do it in NZ, he may be retired now but the cost of measurement was minimal. Big bonus is you pay only once and your certificate then lasts a full ten

Thanks very much! Glad to hear the system has been popular and useful , I will email you later with details.

Sorry about the delay replying, I forgot to turn on notifications of replies and only just re-found the topic. I don't have credit on the satphone at the moment but will be topping up for an offshore passage soon so we can test it then. I think when you reply to the isatphone then your email address is included in the message and does count as part of the 160 character limit. I'm not aware of any limit on the number of free text messages we can receive. Cheers, Chris

Hi there, I've been looking for a platform like this which will work with emails from our isatphone. The phone is limited to 160 character emails (including the length of the email address) because emails go via text message. The upside of this is that receiving emails is free as long as they are within the 160 charater limit. I know a lot of other cruising yachts use isatphones and it would be great to be able to take advantage of a service like yours, but none of them seem to be designed to work with short emails (which would be an advantage on any slow email connection, not just an