Ports of Entry

Why would they? In the corner of the med by Greece and Turkey there are boats crossing all the time, they didn't bother simplifying the process there ... AFAIK it's still


I don't think they will. Others were saying that ETIAS would make it easier, or that France would move her border checks to random capintaneries that don't employ border guards.
 
Presumably as there is no border in the Irish Sea nor on the Irish mainland UK boats can cruise there with impunity and shouldn't require C1331 paperwork. From Ireland to mainland Europe and back to UK could be interesting!

A round trip via mainland Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Eire, France, Channel Island back to mainland GB should cross enough different legal zone complexities to keep a legal team busy for decades :unsure:
 
One thing that does worry me a little, is that right now there is banter going on with the EU over fishing rights. Some of the French ports of entry- Boulogne & Dieppe spring to mind, - have active fishing fleets & they have not been slow in protesting. Some years ago the fishermen in Boulogne had the harbour chained off for quite a while & Dutch & British yachts were caught up in the dispute. The gendarme did little to help.

With the Uk threatening their liveley hood, the French fishermen may not be adverse to doing damage to UK flagged yachts. I have had to give way to a couple coming in and out of Boulogne, when they have been a bit "bruttish". I wonder what the attitude might be this year.
 
If I had a fiver for every time I heard that for my kids when they were little, I'd be sailing a nice shiny Southerly, not a 50 year old Snapdragon.

I generally worked on the basis that justice was best served by using one to thump the other:)
 
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