Sauvage must be CAT 1 certified, but right now she falls short, mostly in the areas of electronics (AIS, RADAR, auto-pilot), and in formal certification. So, over the coming months I will be driven by my desire to tick off the CAT 1 requirements. But have I left my run too late for this year?
Before I can even start looking at what I need, I need to complete a ‘last few’ onboard jobs, some already started, and one now finished. A prerequisite to CAT 1 is to have functioning water tanks. We have five water tanks on , four centrally located in the bilge under the saloon, the fifth under a bed in an aft cabin. Of the four saloon