Spain visitor berthing - paper work required

[PEJ]

Although I have been in the Med over a year I have only been to a visitor berth once and that was a year ago and I can't remember what paper work you need.

Is it just UK registration certificate and insurance details? Do you have to have the actual documents or just need to know the numbers / dates on them?

 

[jrudge]

Usually the original of or a photocopy of ...

1 ships registration
2 insurance
3 skippers passport
4 fill out the form including all on board. Most of the time they are happy not to see the other crew passports but once in a while it happens. I mostly just say it is me on board and they have no issue from a paperwork POV.
5 your credit card ��

If you are on the system they will in most cases dispense with most of the above but it is s but random

 

[PEJ]

Thanks Jeremy!

 

[kashurst]

they have been tightening up a bit - you will need all the crews passports as well (not copies) , just in case its a long walk back to the boat.

 

[westernman]

I have been cruising around the Costa Brava, Mallorca, Minorca and am often visiting marinas. I have only ever been asked for the ships registration document (UK Part I) when visiting. For my yearly rental berth in Spain, I was asked for registration and insurance certificate.

Spanish customs once asked for my passport once when visiting and for the registration document (which I did not have as I had given it to the marinero). He gave my passport a brief glance and was not interested in anything else (and was not bothered about checking up on the registration). Probably looking for foreign registered yachts which were Spanish owned to avoid taxes.

I have never been asked for crew passports, crew list, ICC or anything else - except the credit card when you go to pick up the registration document when you want to leave.

 

[Andy Bav]

Our boat is Guernsey registered and seems to pique the interest of the authorities, and all they seem to be interested in is registration document and confirmation of VAT paid, but they also take a cursory glance at insurance and passports... we have been boarded twice in our own Marina within 12 months....

 

[westernman]

Our boat is Guernsey registered and seems to pique the interest of the authorities, and all they seem to be interested in is registration document and confirmation of VAT paid, but they also take a cursory glance at insurance and passports... we have been boarded twice in our own Marina within 12 months....

In ten years down here, never been asked for VAT documentation. Never been boarded. Although I have been followed for nearly 10 minutes by a customs helicopter. And another time two customs cutters (one from France and one from Spain) where maneuvering close to Collioure bay which I was entering under sail. I nearly rammed the French one!

 

[Tranona]

Our boat is Guernsey registered and seems to pique the interest of the authorities, and all they seem to be interested in is registration document and confirmation of VAT paid, but they also take a cursory glance at insurance and passports... we have been boarded twice in our own Marina within 12 months....

That is not surprising as they see a non EU registered boat which might indicate that its EU movement is restricted. Only way of checking is to see your documents.