webcraft
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We keep the boat in Portugal and we are planning a visit to Tangier next year. What paperwork will the Moroccan authorities require other than passports and boat insurance, will we have to formally check out of Spain?
Morocco - Tangier - checking out of Spain
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GHA
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been into Morocco couple times on the boat, Tangier & Asilah with no probs but that was ages ago. Looks like there's a UK boat in the marina on noforeignland that came from spain, maybe send them a NFL message to check the lay of the land in the real world. Marina gets top reviews though 
capnsensible
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Been to Morocco stacks, lots of ports. Checking in and out of Morocco is very important, but I guess you got that. Prior to you know what, arriving back in Spain was never a problem.
But to the question. Back end of last year I took a boat from Lanza to Agadir. Got the non Spanish residents to nip up to Arecife to check out. Boat was there 3 months.....brexit thing.....and my mate the owner checked back into Spain on return. I was OK because I've got Spanish residency. If you have Portugese residency the same should apply.
Have a nice trip. Austrian friends of ours stopped for a visit here a couple of weeks back having departed from Tangier. They loved it.
capnsensible
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Add. If you do clear in and out, a skipper I knew when I was in the area did so at the cruise ship terminal I Cadiz. Bit of a walk but solved his problem with non EU trainees on board. Marina is about a twenty minute walk.
Farleigh
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We went direct from Portugal to Tangier in September this year. We booked out of Portugal so I would assume you need to book out of Spain. Tanja Bay Marina are well set up and booking in there took an hour but was trouble free. They only seem to communicate by WhatsApp, never respond to emails or phone. The person to contact by WhatsApp is Rokia on +212 661 226301. We had to send copies of passports of crew, boat registration papers and insurance. On arrival they don’t answer VHF either you just enter and go on to the waiting pontoon, all entry requirements are done there with visit from police, customs and national guard to carry out a cursory search of boat. Customs issue a temporary import paper which when you leave needs to be certified to show you have left. Tangier is great and well worth a visit.
Graham376
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We've never bothered booking out of EU but no option when arriving or departing Smir. No questions asked when arriving back in Gib or LaLinea.
billskip
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When we sail into Tangier, the immigration/police came aboard, searched the boat and asked for passports, also to write our full names on a paper, when they returned with passports all ok except mine, big problem but I couldn't understand what, they grilled me for about half hour asking all sorts of stuff and wanted me to go off to the police station under arrest. I eventually managed to get from them what the problem was, the passport office had spelt my name wrong,and the spelling was different to the paper I had written.