Yingtong1

Thanks everyone for your input. I'll continue looking into the situation.

I was a bit unclear there. I want to re-register the yacht in the UK, but you need to be living in the UK for at least 180 days a year according to the UK Small Ships Register documentation. I would need to set up a UK company registration and supply a contact with a UK resident which is not a problem. I don't have a UK passport, only NZ and Australian. If anyone has done all this I'd like to find the best way to do it from someone who has.

Thanks everyone for their input on yacht registration offshore. Does anyone have a contact they have used to register a company and deal with the re-registration of my previously registered UK yacht as I am domiciled in NZ?

Has anyone registered their yacht in the Cook Islands to get around the extraordinarily complex Cat 1 requirements (instead of good seamanship and common sense as in most countries) ? My yacht was registered in the UK but needs to be re-registered and that seems to require the owner to be domiciled in the UK for 186 days a year. Any ideas welcome