Click here to fill out your Sea Services Testimonials.
Please see guidlines below.
What is Sea Service verification?
When progressing your yachting career – whether it be obtaining a Notice of Eligibility (NoE), revalidating a Certificate of Competency (CoC) or moving to a more senior position on board, you need to be able to show an accurate and VERIFIED record of your time at sea. Having testimonials verified by PYA will avoid significant delays in issuing an MCA Notice of Eligibility (NoE).
The PYA is authorised by the MCA and by Transport Malta, to verify yacht sea service and has been doing it for the MCA since 1994 - no other organisation has this track record.
Get your Sea Service verified
To get your sea service verified, become a Full member of the PYA.
You will get our Digital Service Record Book (D-SRB), and we will process as many yacht sea service testimonials and certificates as you wish. To know more about the benefits, click here.
Setting up your member's area
After registering, you need to upload the following documents to your member’s area:
a passport-size photo* - head shots only (.jpg format)
a certified copy of your passport* or identity card* (.pdf format)
certified copies of your certificates (optional)
How does it work?
When you upload new documents to your profile, your file goes into the queue for verification.When your file is processed by the Sea Service team, your paperwork is checked for any inconsistencies, missing information, or errors (read our guidelines to avoid these issues).
N.B.: If the testimonials submitted are missing dates, overlap, etc., then we must contact you while your file goes into pending until all queries are resolved. Read our guidelines to avoid these issues.
After making sure everything is in order, your testimonials are submitted to an SRB Officer for final review and approval. Sometimes the information is rejected by the SRB Officer as new queries come up.
Once everything has been approved by the SRB Officer, your testimonials will appear as VERIFIED on your online profile and your D-SRB will be generated. You will receive a notification email that your D-SRB is ready for download. For non-members: you won’t receive a D-SRB but digitally signed testimonials which need to be downloaded and emailed to the MCA as you would with the D-SRB. You will receive a notification email when your testimonials are ready for download.
The verification process can take up to 25 working days depending on the quality of your documents, and our workload.
