How to notify French authorities of planned voyage from UK to France

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Hi,
We're planning on a short cruise over to France but I'm struggling to find out exactly how to notify the french of our planned arrival. I've found a paper form titled "Border Control - Entering and leaving form Pleasure boating outside of the Schengen area".
The limited guidance I've found states "This information must be given to the Harbour authority 24 hours before arrival when the trip is less than 24 hours long," How are you supposed to provide that info when you don't have access to computers/scanners/printers!
There's an online form for Belgium (online form) but I've not been able to find a french equivilent. Any pointers anyone?
 
DougOut said:
Hi,
We're planning on a short cruise over to France but I'm struggling to find out exactly how to notify the french of our planned arrival. I've found a paper form titled "Border Control - Entering and leaving form Pleasure boating outside of the Schengen area".
The limited guidance I've found states "This information must be given to the Harbour authority 24 hours before arrival when the trip is less than 24 hours long," How are you supposed to provide that info when you don't have access to computers/scanners/printers!
There's an online form for Belgium (online form) but I've not been able to find a french equivilent. Any pointers anyone?
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Saw this a few months back - good video
 
Claim you are Somalian on your forms and they will help you back onto your boat but seriously an online form is submitted and then seems to disappear into ether - have a look at cherbough marina site or give them a ring if any questions -the weird thing is the stamping in times for passports in evenings vary depending on month it appears at cherbourg . Ideally they would just install some machines at the port office to do the stamping in and out and remove the need for human intervention in process. Other ports much more relaxed though eg st cast etc.
 
ashtead said:
Other ports much more relaxed though eg st cast etc.
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You are comparing a non-PPF (protocol) port with a (main) PPF port.

St Cast (non PPF) is also quite unique in that it refers your admission to St Brieuc Douane who are PPF.

If you enter via a non PPF port on a British passport, you can't go to any other European country directly and must also exit via a non PPF port so a trip to/from N France requires careful planning.

Full info for CA members at - https://www.theca.org.uk/france-channel-ports-of-entry
 
St cast is handy if you sail to Alderney say,bounce around for the night ,sail to jersey for say a few nights and a 6 hour lovely sail to st cast . Spend the week there and reverse trip or alternate with guernsey etc.
 
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