What is a Carving and Marking Note and what are Carving and Marking formalities?
The Carving & Marking Note is a document issued by the respective shipping registry once the initial application to register a particular yacht has been accepted and after satisfactory evidence of ownership and tonnage survey report have been presented. The document advises the Official Number of the vessel together with its tonnage and it also carries instructions on how the yacht’s name and port of registry should be applied. Depending on the size of the vessel and individual registry requirements, this can be completed by the owner, British consul, registrar, and certain survey or classification societies. Once the document has been signed off and returned to the shipping registry it marks the completion of formalities, which in turn enables the Certificate of British Registry to be issued.
