Duty Free!

[Cornishman]

There is a misconception that duty free tobacco and booze are no longer available to leisure craft.
This is not quite true. If your destination is south of Brest or north of the north bank of the R. Eider in Denmark you are eligible.
See www.wvbrahms.co.uk , and NO, there is nobody there called Liszt!

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[sailorman]

i have been told "by a friend" that tis available in Belgium.
General Stores i belive & Alain brings it to your boat pronto

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[Mudplugger]

Can confirm Sailorman's point....Duty Free most definately available in, Ostend, Niewport, Zeebrugge and Blankenburg. Also, most interesting notice from Belgium Finance Ministry at most marinas and clubs, explaining why they continue to supply duty free to vessels transitting outside Belgium Territorial waters. LONG MAY THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO.....TW

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[david_bagshaw]

As far as I am aware the Eider is in Germany, well it was in August!!!

Duty free fuel is available in Helgoland as well, along with booze & fags.

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[Cornishman]

It's a long way to go to Belgium to get duty frees if you are planning a passage to, say, La Rochelle or The Azores, from Falmouth

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[sailorman]

just another advantage of being on the East Coast then

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[steve_cronin]

What price......

uniformity and egalitarianism in the EU now then?


HA! HA! HA! HA!

Referendum ASAP please

Steve Cronin



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[Cornishman]

Maybe, but you are an awful long way from Cornwall, and that has to be a disadvantage

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[milltech]

...but Steve's "How Much" question still burns. I mean the Channel Islands are "Duty Free" but I never found any cheap booze there, just a variation in the profit margin to match Sainsburys back home.

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[milltech]

Re: What price......

I thought you meant the price of the booze! I really must learn to read.


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[steve_cronin]

How much? Well How\'s £2.50?

Those who have been voyaging long enough to remember will tell you that in 1974 it was possible to go into Henri Ryst's or Guerain & Co in Cherbourg with your ship's papers and buy a single bottle of scotch for £2.50. That is for one bottle andit was generally for sale in UK shops for around £7 a bottle. So called "duty free" ferries sold it for around £5.

Now if I was charged £2.50 for one bottle at what rate were the ferry companies buying their thousands of bottlee per day & then selling it off DUTY free but not INDECENT PROFIT free?

Another closely linked but separate point: if the transaction of the ferry selling and me buying occurs on the high seas, how come it can't be a duty free transaction? I understand the position at land frontiers between EU states because one is never, even for a moment NOT on common market territory but on a steamer from Marseilles to Oslo?

Steve Cronin

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[sailorman]

yes Cornwell is a long way, guess u dont get much "Real" Belgian Beer then.
I`m just drinking a nice cold "Jupiler" try buying that at sainsburys.£7-00 for 24 x 33cl. Cheers

<hr width=100% size=1><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by sailorman on 15/11/2003 17:08 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[Cornishman]

OMG - us do drink real ale down yer me 'andsome. Try St Austell HSD (variously known as High Speed Death, or High Speed Diesel). 'Course there is always Sharp's Doom as well from Padstein, oops sorry, Padstow. I'm just going down the sailing club for a pint now. Do 'e drink that Belgy stuff by the litre then? Yuk
BTW it's Cornw A ll hence our motto One and All!

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[Johnjo]

"HSD" now that is a good pint !

And what about "Spingo" The head banging beer from Helston!

I can still remember the hangovers, nothing else just the hangovers!...

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[sailorman]

if u ever get to the "sunny" east coast u must try a foaming pint of Admans or perhaps Woodfords Wherry in one of our riverside pubs.
Only dring the "Belgie" o/board,Belgium, at home.
cant afford the erzats supermarket stuff all made in uk & sold @ uk prices (what happened to the trades discriptions act).
by by me loverlies
ps ever been up Cambourne ill

<hr width=100% size=1><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by sailorman on 16/11/2003 19:23 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[Johnjo]

Camborne

Oohaarrrrrrr pleneee times me handsome,



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[Cornishman]

Re: Camborne Hill

Often - met Jethro comin' down once!

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