Legal owner on board at all times!

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Svanen

No, it isn't. Where did you hear that?

Perhaps it may help to consider the many thousands of commercial vessels engaged in international voyages. >99% are owned by corporations: in which case, it is impossible for the registered owner to be physically present aboard.

What a load of crap..
Those 1000's of commercial vessels have either representatives or full blown offices in every country they service.
A private vessel is a completely different ball game..

[Rachelmoynagh]

Thanks everyone for their replies, very informative. We are buying in Portugal and sailing our boat to Greece where we will keep here for a few years and maybe in later years sail to the Caribbean and beyond !!
I have settled with a 60:4 ownership split with my partner, I don't plan to split from him but if we do I'm protected. Its probably worth having both our names on the papers.
Very glad all the political messages were deleted, that was a bit of a shock!!
Well thanks again, may call again with other questions.