Sport and recreational purposes

The use for sport and recreational purposes is given if the craft is used for ship-related sport activities or ship-related recreation of the persons on board, for example for:

sailing sport,
motorboat sport,
fishing, or
diving.

In particular, there is no sport or recreational purpose in the following cases:

commercial voyages where the transport of persons is in the foreground (e.g. water taxis);
commercial voyages with touristic motives, such as harbour round trips, disco, birthday and wedding trips;
burials at sea.