This new forum is for discussion on the somewhat thorny issue of the EC's Recreational Craft Directive, or 'the RCD'. We saw in the thread now moved here that our members' level of interest in this topic was so remarkable that it deserves its own forum. The full text of the EC Directive is now available here for download. Please note that we are not now drafting a petition seeking amendment as we think it would fall on totally stone deaf ears.

If you have a boatbuilding question to put to the membership, please post in here. Please keep this forum directed toward technical questions on how to build a better backyard boat.

If you have general questions, suggestions, or issues to raise on any subject at all, please post them here in this sub-forum.