Each week, Bateaux.com offers you a question about the boat license. To validate your skills or even to discover unexplored areas. This week, we tackle an administrative question.
What can be found on the CE plate?
For its identification, a vessel built after June 16, 1998 must have a builder's plate permanently fixed on the vessel (not removable). The following information must appear on it:
- the name of the manufacturer
- its corporate name or trademark
- a contact address
- the "CE" marking
- the design category of the boat
- the maximum load
- the maximum number of people recommended by the manufacturer
For this question, the correct answers are A, B and D.
Please note that there is no mandatory format for designing the plate. Each manufacturer is free to design it as he wishes.
There are 4 design categories:
Design Category A: Recreational vessels designed for winds that may exceed force 8 (on the Beaufort scale) and for waves that may exceed a significant height of 4 meters, excluding exceptional conditions such as storms, severe storms, tornadoes and extreme sea conditions or huge waves (these conditions exclude force 10 and following).
Design Category B: Pleasure craft designed for winds up to and including force 8 and significant wave heights up to and including 4 meters.
Design Category C: Pleasure craft designed for winds up to and including force 6 and significant wave heights up to and including two meters.
Design Category D: Pleasure craft designed for winds up to and including force 4 and for waves up to and including 0.30 meters, with occasional waves up to and including 0.50 meters.
