Buying in UK for use in Spain

[pcatterall]

Our syndicate group is looking to buy a yacht, and have agreed a basic spec agreeable to all. A provisional search indicates that 'like for like' UK prices are cheaper.
Buying in Uk has the advantages that we can travel to look at yachts more easily and that we can do any work/get spares etc in a familiar situation.
The drawback is, of course, getting the boat to Spain. The options would seem to be, move it ourselves, road delivery or delivery crew?
I did take our old Neptunian through the French Canals and to Spain ( via Sardinia) It took about 2 years !! mainly spent in France !! ( only about 2/3 weeks actually moving and the rest sampling
cuisine and visiting vineyards etc!! ) I'm 84 now so wonder if I have 2 years left to repeat that!
It would be great to get any suggestions from you all and any ball park costs would be welcome. Currently looking at a Moody 333.
Thanks all

 

[st599]

Hi
You need to really understand the legal requirements of what you are doing.

Are you intending to temporarily import it then export it again within 18 months?

If not, then you will owe VAT on the consignment (which includes the cost of transporting it to Spain). You will also need to show that it meets the RCD specificaiton (the 2017 version). If it already has a 2017 RCD certificate (or the copy and paste UK RCR), then that should be relatively simple.

 

[pcatterall]

Hi
You need to really understand the legal requirements of what you are doing.

Are you intending to temporarily import it then export it again within 18 months?

If not, then you will owe VAT on the consignment (which includes the cost of transporting it to Spain). You will also need to show that it meets the RCD specificaiton (the 2017 version). If it already has a 2017 RCD certificate (or the copy and paste UK RCR), then that should be relatively simple.

Thanks! That was my next question. Is that VAT on the purchase price of the yacht in question then. Our Neptunian was in Spain at the time the UK left the EU and appears to have established residency!? There are no plans to export it before 18 months. Sorry RCD specification??

 

[Tranona]

Our syndicate group is looking to buy a yacht, and have agreed a basic spec agreeable to all. A provisional search indicates that 'like for like' UK prices are cheaper.
Buying in Uk has the advantages that we can travel to look at yachts more easily and that we can do any work/get spares etc in a familiar situation.
The drawback is, of course, getting the boat to Spain. The options would seem to be, move it ourselves, road delivery or delivery crew?
I did take our old Neptunian through the French Canals and to Spain ( via Sardinia) It took about 2 years !! mainly spent in France !! ( only about 2/3 weeks actually moving and the rest sampling
cuisine and visiting vineyards etc!! ) I'm 84 now so wonder if I have 2 years left to repeat that!
It would be great to get any suggestions from you all and any ball park costs would be welcome. Currently looking at a Moody 333.
Thanks all

Not practical these days now that the UK is no longer in the EU. as suggested if you want to keep the boat in the EU you will have to import it it paying VAT and comp-lying with the latest RCD - which a Moody 333 will not. If you wish to just visit the EU and you are a non EU resident to can enter under Temporary Asmission for up to 18 months when the boat must leave the EU. You can re-enter for another 18 months. You cannot sell the boat in the EU without importing it.

The days when you could do what you did with your old boat ended on 31/12/2020 when the UK left the EU. If you want to keep a boat in the EU the only practical way is to buy a boat there with EU VAT status.

One of the reasons boats have fallen in value in the UK is because it is now a closed market compounding the general fall in market confidence.

 

[st599]

RCD

Recreational Craft Directive. The set of safety and emissions regulations a boat needs to meet when imported to the EU or put on the EU market.

 

[pcatterall]

I have missed something while we have been in Spain ! I dont know what an RCD or RCR is !!

Recreational Craft Directive. The set of safety and emissions regulations a boat needs to meet when imported to the EU or put on the EU market.

Thanks all. Another cunning plan down the pan!! Just out of interest do New UK boats have to comply with an RCD or is it just an EU thing?

 

[st599]

I have missed something while we have been in Spain ! I dont know what an RCD or RCR is !!

Thanks all. Another cunning plan down the pan!! Just out of interest do New UK boats have to comply with an RCD or is it just an EU thing?

New UK boats have to comply with the RCR, which is a copy and paste of the most recent version of the RCD.

It's not new, the original came in in '94, the most recent in '13.