Licenciamento

West Coast - Serviços e Eventos Náuticos Lda is a Maritime & Touristic Operator licensed by the "Tourism of Portugal Authority", a recreational boating Training Organization certified by DGRM (the portuguese Maritime Adminsitration) and a recognized Training centre by the RYA (Royal Yachting Association).

The License Permit awarded under the "Touristic Animation Nacional Agents Registration" (Tourism of Portugal - RNAAT) means that our vessels are inspected annually, have all the safety equipment suitable for their comercial activity and the insurance coverage required by law is adequate and respects the law.
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Certification granted by DGRM means also that our Recreational Boating School is allowed to teach the courses leading to a Portuguese Boating License (Basic, Local and Coastal and Ocean Skipper).
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We have also the most prestigious recognition by the Royal Yachting Association that allows us to teach the schemes “Sail Cruising” (from Start Yachting to Yachtmaster) and “Powerboat” (Level 1 and Level 2).
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Insurance
Safety

Insurance

The vessels in which we operate, have the insurance adequate to the touristic activities that goes far beyond the minimum requisites demanded by the Portuguese law.

We work with the most prestigious interntional insurance company (Pantaenius) which offers the most comprehensive maritime coverage. For example, the minimum requirment in Portugal for civil liability in Portugal is 150 000 euros. Our coverage is 10 milhões de euros per boat.

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Thefore, you cancount with the minimum coverage as below:

Civil liability: 10 000 000 euros;

Personal Accident: 60 000 euros;

On each activity with our company, and in case you consider that the insurances coverage are not sufficient for your specific case, you may request specific additional coverages for your case.

Contact us to get more information about our insurance coverage.

Safety

What does "safety of our gear and procedures" mean? It means that:

We have and respect an internal “Safety Policy” according to international standards, that is known and respected by all our staff;;

We train regularly emergency maneuvers like for example the man overboard and the use of the emergency wheel;;

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We maintain a stable team of instructors and provide them with regular training, that includes the courses “Sea Survival” and “First Aid”. Annually we organize an internal training, with a theoretical and practical component, where we discuss issues related to safety at sea and our procedures;

Our vessels are inspected annually by the local authorities (DGRM/Harbour Master) and also by a RYA inspector. We know that we can be inspected without notice at any moment;

Our vessels have safety equipments always above to the minimums required by law. For example our boats, even the ones of coastal navigation, have liferafts;

All vessels have automatic inflatable lifejackets with harness and lifeline. We wear and teach how to make proper use of lifejackets on board and it’s mandatory to use them. Our inflatable lifejackets are inspected annually by a certified service station;

All our sailing vessels have lifelines installed and we make use of them;

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All our vessels have systems to recover a person in case of a man overboard;;

All our boats have fixed VHF with DSC;

VWe check permanently the state of our gear in every single detail according to a preventive maintenance plan. This includes a regular inspection on rigging, stove inversion tests, revision of the inflatable lifejackets on a certified service station amongst others.