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Yes you have. VAT is due on imports into the EU from the Canaries

The Canaries are part of the EU and EU Customs area, but outside of the EU VAT area and EU Excise area. Probably needs more...

I bought a boat which was sold to a UK resident in the UK a month before UK Vat was introduced, ( March 1973) In 1983 the boat was sold...

The most important thing about importing a boat is, that unless you are entitled to RGR relief on it, is that it must be certified to...

Sweeping generalisations here. In the UK any boat imported is subject to VAT based on its market value which may be the purchase price...

My boat was built for its previous owner in Canada in 1998. It had a few shake down sails there, before being sailed across the Altantic...

Lister air cooled diesel and speed in the same sentence!

Economy??? When you are talking about big, fat, heavy, planing motor boats???

Always worked for me.

That is what I meant - actual launches.

Do you have any friends?

How many of you have been hit by some one swinging into you in the night? I have been in many times in anchorages in the med which have...

Just tell them that you are not anchored - you are snagged on the gas main, but confident that you can wrench it free. Then start the...

Some of you who get apoplectic about the way that others anchor, should try anchoring in more out-of-the-way places. In the majority of...

Or you could just keep it in the tin, invert it first to get a good seal and keep it in a cool dark place - like in the bilge.