AUS-M3000-Y-L3.1

Flag, registry and the yacht's certificates

AUS-M3000-Y-M3 · Shipmaster's Business · AUS-M3000-Y-M3-A The commercial and legal weight of command

The flag is the law of the vessel. Wherever she is in the world, she carries a body of law with her, and it is the flag's. The register records ownership and mortgages. The certificate of registry is the vessel's identity document, and it is the one piece of paper a port state will ask for before it asks for anything else.