Going to Oostende May B/H Where do I get Shengen thingies please?

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I guess we will need Shengen forms. I can find NL ones online but have been unable to find BE ones. Could someone point me to the right place please?
 
It is a Euro thingy isn't it? Shouldn't it be the same form wherever you are going?

What if you planned to go to Breskens and ended up in Zeebrugge due to a change of plan, ( or lousy navigation? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

Still interested in a knowledgable answer as we are planning to go to Holland via Belgium in June.
 
You carry a stock of both forms (blank) and fill in the right one when you are coming into harbour. You don't have to lodge them in advance. They are really just crew lists, but have to be the right form with the right foreign writing on them.
 
Thanks for the link, which does work for me. I would still like to know if I need to have both forms, especially as one crew member may leave in Oostende and only 2 of us carry on to Vlissingen.
 
Theoretically no, you don't.... but for the sake of two bits of paper, personally, i'd carry them anyway.... as Shmoo says, just carry blanks... we have a few stuffed in a file somewhere onboard, and just complete them on request...

Last year entering Vlissingen, I offered the completed forms to the customs guy asking basic questions as we locked in, and he laughed and told me to throw them away!
 
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all info on the RYA site


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I am sure you are right but I couldn't find it! Actually spent some time being distracted on the very beautiful but completely off-topic www.rya.com.

Anyway got it now. Thanks again to Mr Sailorman!
 
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It is a Euro thingy isn't it? Shouldn't it be the same form wherever you are going?

What if you planned to go to Breskens and ended up in Zeebrugge due to a change of plan, ( or lousy navigation? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)


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You're supposed to fill it out upon arrival (assuming you know where you are).

In theory you should have one per country.
E.g. If your first port is Ostend, get your Schengen form signed there and keep a copy on board. You then don't need a new form when you go to Zeebrugge, Nieuwpoort, ...

In practise - you don't need one for Ostend. No-one's interested.
God's even taken the Schengen box away as it was never emptied and tourists kept using it as a bin.
 
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i do have the forms O/b in case needed


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That's why I want them. It will be the weekend we go that they send out rookie policemen to have a crack down.
 
Same happened to me in the sixhaven a couple of years ago, but last year at Vlissingen the patrol stopped me and asked me where the form was, i told him id forgotten it and he said no prob and then he filled one in for me!
 
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in more than 30 yrs of going to Belgium i have yet to hand in a crew list..........

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In 10 years I have been asked once, in Nieuwpoort.
I had the RYA forms with me, they laughed and said 'wrong form' , produced the right one and filled it in for me while supping une petite biere from my drinkies locker. The form they had looks like the one that Sailorman has provided the link to, but then I did tell the RYA they had the wrong one when I came back so perhaps they did something about it.
 
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