You only have one month to close out your CPD claims for 2020


There is still time to claim your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points for the year ended 31 December 2020. You have until 31 March 2021 to finalise your claims using the IIMS CPD App.


You can view the CPD points table at https://bit.ly/2MlVKN8. To access the CPD App and register your points go to http://bit.ly/2IWcXLi.


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Members who have acquired the 10 points that are needed to be CPD compliant will have the dated CPD badge applied to their listing on the Marine Surveyor Search App.


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Cruising Association says boat owners are caught ‘in perfect storm’


Robin Baron, chairman of the Cruising Association RATS committee, has said that cruising yachtsmen are in the middle of ‘a perfect storm’. His words come at the end of months of COVID-19 restrictions, a VAT ‘trap’ and new visa rules exacerbating everything. Amid a surge of enquiries about Brexit which has seen the Cruising Association run a seminar and respond to multiple questions from members in unfolding territory, Baron has settled on a plan to at least help members negotiate visa arrangements. He’s looking to exert pressure from within.


Since 1 January 2021, people can only stay 90 days in any 180-day period within the Schengen area. The 180-day reference period is not fixed. It is a moving window, based on the approach of looking backwards at each day of the stay over the time period. Only absence for an uninterrupted period of 90 days allows for a new stay for up to 90 days.


“This simply doesn’t work for cruising yachts,” states Baron. “It cuts off either April and May, or August and September.” But what perplexes him is that while the UK government gave “EU citizens the right to visit for up to 180 days, our government declined to negotiate the reciprocal arrangement with Schengen.”


This is an extract from a much longer article on this political ‘hot potato’ which is available at http://bit.ly/2LKJNRl.


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