We slept so late this morning that when we woke it felt like a public holiday, so we had a vote and unanimously decided to have the rest of the day off.
Admittedly this is becoming a bit of a habit, so we did pretend to attend to some outstanding paperwork over our morning coffee, but became distracted when to our astonishment we discovered a note in our email inbox confirming that following receipt of our application yesterday (Sunday) our Ship’s Radio License has been approved and the original is already in the mail to our home address!
Sadly with no digital copy, we did not have access to the information we required, so we replied, pointing out our situation and asking if it would be too much trouble to send us a copy by email. There wasn’t even time to take another bite of biscuit when the reply arrived complete with the requested attachment.
My wish it seems, is someone’s command!
This of course leaves us in a quite pleasant quandary. Not wishing to outlay significant sums of money on equipment in the absence of a license, we may have perhaps mistaken on the application form, the words “installed in your ship” for “will buy one shortly if this application is approved”.
We’d better get shopping then, lest our friend arrives in his uniform and discovers that our vintage VHF radio does not do the things the license says it does!
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Oops, where on earth does one buy a VHF in Bruges? Good luck!
On "the line" as someone I know would say! Ordered yesterday from Somewhere in the Netherlands, should arrive today (or tomorrow), we will also have AIS because of a quirk in the French regs, which is what makes it all so stupid, but we shrug our shoulders and enjoy it!
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