yachtregistration.company<\/a> to make the flagging easier.\u00a0<\/p>\nYou will also need a radio licence (which can be done online) and to register the VHF radio and emergency beacons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The latter takes a number of weeks via Poland but it can be temporarily registered via the UK, which is very quick, while everything else is sorted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We had to pay VAT import as our boat could not evidence any VAT already paid and had spent a number of years pre-Covid sailing the US and Caribbean.<\/p>\n
S.M., by email<\/p>\n
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To the Editor,<\/p>\n
Our current boat was bought in Holland in 2018 and had a (lapsed) Dutch registration. I wanted to stay with my existing boat insurer, GJW insurance, and they insisted that the boat be registered in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was easy to do; we now have an SSR number and the registration has to be renewed every five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We spent the summer of 2019 cruising through Holland, Belgium and \u2018home\u2019 to France.<\/p>\n
We wear a red ensign on the stern of the boat (to indicate the boat’s country of registration – UK) and we fly a French courtesy flag on the starboard side.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We display the SSR number on the sides and stern of the boat, as well as the boat\u2019s name. The VNF (French waterways authority) seems very happy with all of that.<\/p>\n
We see lots of similarly adorned boats on our travels; we spend the five summer months on the boat each year, with a visa of course (which is far more complicated!).\u00a0<\/p>\n
No one has ever asked us about VAT. I think it’s assumed that it was paid in Holland when the boat was new (it is now 31 years old).<\/p>\n
B.L., by email<\/p>\n
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