Starting up a Yacht Charter in Australia

[leftbrainstuff]

Try getting insurance. The broker will quickly tell you what certs and quals you need.

AMSA can also assist with some requirements. Note that there are only a few hundred commercial ships on the Australian shops tegister.

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[Snowpetrel]

Amsa is still in a transitional stage, and from what I hear the official takeover from the states has been delayed a year or so.

Its worth talking to the old state based marine boards about it since they are still running the show at the moment. http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/imari...al-vessels.asp

MSQ used to have a very easy system to get into survey, but the other states didn't like it. Not sure how things stand now.

A coxswains is incredibly easy to get. The seatime is rediculiously short with a taskbook, something like 21 days. Master 24m NC less so. About a 1 week course with a few other short courses for the level 1 passenger one.

The RYA offshore with a comercial endorsement is good under an exemption until 2018 for yachts to 24 meters. Time will tell what happens to this, but I cant see it being recinded completely.

[dadinabarrel]

I'm asking myself the same questions. I pay an awful amount of tax each year and am setting up a trust/company structure to alleviate it and a yacht can be made to fit the bill but there are quite a few hurdles. (not interested in property, got smashed a few years ago) I'm also not intersted in borrowing against my home or working for 20 more years to get to my super

AMSA EX18 allows a holder of a Yachtmaster ticket and a list of bits and pieces to operate with crew/passengers to 100nm offshore. This seems a common outcome for most people looking down this particular rabbit hole.

https://www.amsa.gov.au/about-amsa/c...tions/EX18.pdf

There must be some businesses that can use the yacht that don't require passengers, I'm open to ideas. Anything we generate here will benifit the whole community.

[Snowpetrel]

^^ edit, 7 days Comercial seatime plus taskbook for a coxswains grade 2 (non passgenger) and 30 days Comercial seatime plus taskbook for a grade 1 (passenger). Of course these are limited to 12m and inshore waters.

[Marloo]

Ha great banter there from the Aussies.

Make sure you know what your getting yourself into, its not as easy as deciding you want to charter the boat.... you will need a Master 5 and a Med 3 ticket to drive a vessel under 24 meters or you then go up to Master 4.

The boat will have as its "survey" from AMSA a crewing requirement.
Be prepared for a lot of hoops and a lot of different requirements not only from AMSA but locally as well...like a "commercial Kitchen requirements" as an example if you are going to serve food.

In my experience forget RYA it will only give you heart ache later, it will always be a band aid solution, they are only recognized in order to give you a restricted to sail Master 5.....not worth the trouble if you are starting from scratch.

I wont bore you here if you are thinking of putting a boat into Survey other than to say I hope your pockets are deep.

fair winds.