Plan Reviews

The objective of the scheme is for World Sailing together with World Sailing Recognised Organisations to provide certification to designers, builders and/or owners to show compliance with specific parts of the International Standard ISO 12215: Hull Construction – Scantlings.

World Sailing recognised organisations undertake the structural plan reviews.

These organisations can carry out assessments and issue CE certificates for the European Recreational Craft Directive and/or are Classification Societies, and have also been recognised by World Sailing. World Sailing recognition is given to Notified Bodies and Classification Societies that have demonstrated experience with ballasted sailing yachts, operate an ISO-recognised quality management system, and undergo regular auditing by their national accreditation body. The list of recognised organisations with contact information can be seen in the documents list below.

The scope of the plan review consists of application and calculation to the following parts of ISO12215 – Small Craft – Hull construction and scantlings:

• ISO 12215 Part 5: Design pressures for monohulls, design stresses, scantlings determination: All parts and annexes where applicable to design category A (“ocean”) – Sailing Craft
• ISO 12215 Part 8: Rudders: All parts and annexes where applicable to design category A (“ocean”) – Sailing Craft
• ISO 12215 Part 9: Sailing Craft – Appendages: All parts and annexes where applicable to design category A (“ocean”)

There are five plan review criteria:

1. The boat shall show complete compliance with the above ISO standard parts.
2. In all applicable cases, the ISO standards should be applied as the minimum.
3. Any interpretation of the ISO standard shall be as confirmed by World Sailing.
4. Latest version of the ISO standard shall be used at all times.
5. There is no building inspection or site visits. The review is a plan based only.

There are two forms of certification:

1. Series production; where several boats of the same type are produced per the plans, and therefore each yacht will not require individual review and certification
2. Custom or unique boat where the boat is a one of a kind yacht or a series production yacht that has been built or modified such that it is not following the plans of that series.

World Sailing will maintain a list of yachts reviewed under the scheme on its website with certification information. If the yacht is a series type production, there will be a single entry for that type of yacht with a link to a certificate for an owner or builder to make a hard copy. The owner then signs the declaration, including the CIN/HIN of their particular yacht. The certificate will not be published on the website for a unique yacht. The certificates will be issued directly to the World Sailing recognised notified body/classification society upon compliance with the review requirements. Unique or custom certificates should be returned to the original enquiry source or their nominated individual.