Shearwater
Well-Known Member
I have Spanish residencia and have just sold a UK SSR'd sail boat I brought out from the UK and for which I never had any bother from the Guardia or any other authority (in more than 6 years ). I understand that to be totally legal the residencia requires any boat I own should/ought/must be Spanish registered and, thus, I would need a Spanish VHF and Cert of Comp (both of which are beyond me despite a reasonable conversational knowledge). I now want to buy a mobo and obviously a local Spanish boat is going to be cheapest and there is the prospect the authorities will trace the boat from the Spanish owner to me and, perhaps, ask awkward questions. A solution comes to mind that the new (to me) boat might be 'owned' by my UK resident son or as the sole asset of a limited not-for-profit, non-taxable dormant British company as, surely, anyone can berth a boat in another EU state and visit it once every so often (??). I can't see any other way round this conundrum....being sure I am not the only one who has faced this problem I welcome advice from others who have faced and have, hopefully, faced down this situation. Thank you in advance.