wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2009 at 8:38am:

That settles it then I was going to buy a boat and bring it to Catalunya, NOW I will forget the idea!! >:( >:( I wonder if any of the Spanish fishing boats that decimate the UK fishing stocks and ignore all the international set quotas have an ICC certificate, if they do then its about time the Royal Navy Stopped all of them and insisted they re sit an RYA certificate in English, and impounded their boats till they complied Play the Spanish at their own game and ignore perfectly good qualifications

Hi Hazelnut,
The ICC's that the RYA issue are only for pleasure boat use.

Have a look at the Angloinfo site, Sailing & boating section. There is a fair bit of info there.

Sorry, lilo needs 10m of chain, offshore flares and VHF radio  ;)