Alasdair Reay

Alasdair Reay is CEO of HPi-CEproof Ltd – the accredited body responsible for issuing CE and UKCA certificates for new and second hand boats. He has many years of compliance experience.

Can I take my part-built boat from the UK to Europe?

March 27, 2024

Can PBO reader David Bainbridge trailer his part-built boat from the UK to Greece? Alasdair Reay of HPi Verification Services, the body that issues CE and UKCA certificates for new…

What the indefinite delay of the UKCA mark means for boat buying and selling

August 8, 2023

Alasdair Reay, CEO of HPi-CEproof Ltd, explains what the indefinite delay in the introduction of the UKCA mark means for cross-Channel sales of second-hand boats

Alasdair Reay

Can I take my part-built boat from the UK to Europe?

What the indefinite delay of the UKCA mark means for boat buying and selling

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