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Hey All,

Thanks for the responses. The COI is a certificate your vessel gets after an inspection the USCG does to certify your vessel for more than six paying passengers. The USCG Six-Pack license is for an uninspected vessel--to take more than six passengers your vessel needs to be inspected (and you need a master's license).

If somebody else with the same vessel, make and year, has a valid COI--you can claim that vessel as a sister vessel--and thereby skip the tedious process of submitting diagrams of every corner of the boat--because the USCG already has all those diagrams on record.

So I'm wondering if anybody else out there has a COI for a 1994 Catalina 34. (I'm pursuing some other channels with the USCG to ask if they have an inspected 1994 Catalina 34 on record (submitting a FOIA).)

I take out friends all the time and eight-ten friends is completely comfortable--I'm also wondering if the inspection would clear me for 7 or 8 paying guests based on the capabilities of a 1994 Catalina 34--plenty of room, plenty of stability, would make sense to me.

Cheers,
Ian

Dear C34 Forum,


I'm a new registrant to the forum and proud Catalina 34 owner--any help in this matter would be much appreciated.

I'm looking for a sister vessel--a Catalina 34 sailboat (preferably 1994 in the New York sector) that has, or once had, a valid certificate of inspection (COI).

If anyone owns an inspected C34 or knows of one, please let me know. A thread for C34 sister vessels would be very helpful.


I'm looking to increase from 6 to 8 passengers and I hope this is a reasonable expectation considering the safe operating capabilities of a well-maintained 1994 Catalina 34.

Cheers,
Ian