Importing a salvage powerboat from the USA

[PCUK]

American trailers are illegal in the UK due to the brakes and depending on size, the overall dimensions. So it's a non starter I'm afraid.

 

[Minerva]

I strongly suspect the easiest way to restore and use an American boat in Florida, would be to simply move over there with your family.

Boat yards around the UK are littered with old hulks rotting away. If you are so set on a project, you could buy one of them?

 

[CtrlAltDelete]

American trailers are illegal in the UK due to the brakes and depending on size, the overall dimensions. So it's a non starter

Oh well not to worry !!

 

[CtrlAltDelete]

I strongly suspect the easiest way to restore and use an American boat in Florida, would be to simply move over there with your family.

Boat yards around the UK are littered with old hulks rotting away. If you are so set on a project, you could buy one

If I had said that’s what I want to do. But I’ve said no more than wanting to import 3 things into the UK and thay any help achieving that would be appreciated.

 

[Tranona]

If I had said that’s what I want to do. But I’ve said no more than wanting to import 3 things into the UK and thay any help achieving that would be appreciated.

You have been given advice as to the difficulties you will face but really if you are serious you should engage a shipping agent who will check out what you propose doing with customs before you make any commitment. One thing is clear and that is the complete boat (unless it fits in one of the very narrow exemptions) will require a PCA to the latest standards which a collection of used parts from the US will not meet.

 

[47GC]

Boat yards around the UK are littered with old hulks rotting away. If you are so set on a project, you could buy one of them?

Would certainly make things much easier for the OP.

 

[ylop]

They can. Raceboats, historic boats , historic replicas, exhibition boats, boat and boat parts under development can all be bought in.

Well if you are importing a historic race boat your should have said so! A production boat from the Florida scrapyard is none on the exemptions, because the rules were created to stop people trying to invent ways around them.

I’ve not said I am building a boat.

If you are going to start with a trashed hull frankly you might be better if your were!

I’ve just said I want to import these three items. I’m not about to attempt any of it until it’s mapped out end to end.

Multiple people are telling you yoir roadmap has a dead end but you seem not to be listening.

 

[Elessar]

If it cost 5k, then shipping cost 20k, you'd then need to pay VAT on 25k. Then you'd need to prove it met UK Recreational Craft Regulations (which is the same as the EU regulations), which probably would require a replacement engine.

Vat and import duty.
But to whom would you “need to prove it met the UKRCD?”
I imported a boat from the USA and no one ever checked anything at all. Ever.

 

[Elessar]

American trailers are illegal in the UK due to the brakes and depending on size, the overall dimensions. So it's a non starter I'm afraid.

They will be too wide, and have the wrong tyres, brakes and lights.
They make great yard trailers though.

 

[CtrlAltDelete]

Vat and import duty.
But to whom would you “need to prove it met the UKRCD?”
I imported a boat from the USA and no one ever checked anything at all. Ever

Thanks for chiming in.
Thanks for confirming the ID & VAT
I had a convo with a shipping agent this afternoon who said the same about the inspection baloney.

 

[CtrlAltDelete]

They will be too wide, and have the wrong tyres, brakes and lights.
They make great yard trailers though.

A trailer would be handy just to reduce the shipping cost . Then sell it as a yard trailer

 

[Tranona]

Vat and import duty.
But to whom would you “need to prove it met the UKRCD?”
I imported a boat from the USA and no one ever checked anything at all. Ever.

When was that? If it was after 1998 then you committed a criminal offence by not declaring it and getting it certified to the current RCD. The fact that you were not "caught" does not change that. Pre 1998 was fine and no restrictions on the boat remaining in the EU/UK.

 

[Elessar]

When was that? If it was after 1998 then you committed a criminal offence by not declaring it and getting it certified to the current RCD. The fact that you were not "caught" does not change that. Pre 1998 was fine and no restrictions on the boat remaining in the EU/UK.

It was after 1998 and the boat was made in 2000.

As that part of your conditional statement was true, you just accused me of committing a criminal offence.

Get your facts right. I am certain that I did not.

 

[Seastoke]

Is it a Rinker 36.

 

[Tranona]

It was after 1998 and the boat was made in 2000.

As that part of your conditional statement was true, you just accused me of committing a criminal offence.

Get your facts right. I am certain that I did not.

In 2000 every boat imported for use into the UK was required to meet the RCD and have the documentary evidence (Certificate of Conformity and CE plate) to show that. If it did not have that documentation then indeed an offence has been committed, penalty for which includes possible imprisonment. That is fact - I am just stating the law as it was then then and still is.

 

[CtrlAltDelete]

You’ve quoted me as saying “I’ve not said I’m building a boat “ you’ve written all this contradictory stuff around that as if that ceased to exist and then suggest I might not be listening.

 

[CtrlAltDelete]

In 2000 every boat imported for use into the UK was required to meet the RCD and have the documentary evidence (Certificate of Conformity and CE plate) to show that. If it did not have that documentation then indeed an offence has been committed, penalty for which includes possible imprisonment. That is fact - I am just stating the law as it was then then and still is

You, gave me the impression, “NO” boat could enter the UK without this. But now I know that’s not true and the expert advice as someone put it, was wrong.

 

[Elessar]

In 2000 every boat imported for use into the UK was required to meet the RCD and have the documentary evidence (Certificate of Conformity and CE plate) to show that. If it did not have that documentation then indeed an offence has been committed, penalty for which includes possible imprisonment. That is fact - I am just stating the law as it was then then and still is.

Very interesting and I don’t know if that is true or not. But you leapt from that to accusing me of committing a criminal offence which I’m sure I did not.

Thinking about it what you have quoted cannot be precisely right. At what point is the offence you quote committed?

 

[CtrlAltDelete]

In 2000 every boat imported for use into the UK was required to meet the RCD and have the documentary evidence (Certificate of Conformity and CE plate) to show that. If it did not have that documentation then indeed an offence has been committed, penalty for which includes possible imprisonment. That is fact - I am just stating the law as it was then then and still

Why this ? No one said it wasn’t already certified. We were just told “no one checked anything ever”.

 

[Elessar]

Why this ? No one said it wasn’t already certified. We were just told “no one checked anything ever”.

You are completely correct. Although in my case it had no CE certificate when I imported it. I remain certain that I committed no offence and that Tranona jumped to a conclusion when accusing me