Trouble ahead

[macd]

And for those who use the EHIC..... Toodle pip?

EHIC is EEA plus Switzerland, so could survive a Brexit.
(Not that it would make any difference to me, either way )

 

[Poignard]

It's a tax all French boats pay, it's annual and based on engine size. I had to pay it in France, in fact I was nicked for non payment and back taxed 3 years and had to pay a fine on top. You sort it out with your local douanes. Have an ask around before you stick your head above the parapet, this was a few years ago that this happened to us, things may well have changed.

Thanks. I will make discreet enquiries amongst other owners of UK registered boats in my area.

 

[Poignard]

Then you may be interested in this if you haven't seen it already:
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?450275-Possible-change-in-rules-for-residents-in-France

Thanks. Something else to keep an eye out for.

 

[boatman61]

Actually Europe is full of non RCD/CE compliant boats.. just look around past those shiny new Bendi's and Bavaria's.. its set and run by manufacturers who pressured Brussels into 'making it happen'.. bit like the 'Brits' tried against Jap bikes in the early 70's coz they were so good no one was buying 'Brit' anymore except the dinosaurs.. they claimed Safety Reasons as well..
Schengen is 'Dead Man Walking' so things will revert back to as it was.. and life will be good again.. :encouragement:

 

[Tranona]

Actually Europe is full of non RCD/CE compliant boats.. just look around past those shiny new Bendi's and Bavaria's.. its set and run by manufacturers who pressured Brussels into 'making it happen'.. bit like the 'Brits' tried against Jap bikes in the early 70's coz they were so good no one was buying 'Brit' anymore except the dinosaurs.. they claimed Safety Reasons as well..
Schengen is 'Dead Man Walking' so things will revert back to as it was.. and life will be good again.. :encouragement:

That is only because if they were in the EEA before 1998. any boats imported after that have to comply and imports of US boats in particular have fallen dramatically to just a trickle since then. That is not just because of the RCD but at least at the lower price end the poor exchange rates, high costs of shipping and duty plus VAT, all of which makes import uneconomic for most older boats. Of course even boats built in the EEA before 1998 are non RCD compliant by definition, having been built before the standard was established.

So, not sure what point you are trying to make.

 

[macd]

bit like the 'Brits' tried against Jap bikes in the early 70's coz they were so good no one was buying 'Brit' anymore except the dinosaurs. they claimed Safety Reasons as well..

I don't know what you're referring to but that just didn't happen. Other than import taxes, which would have been levied on any foreign product, there were no preferential regulation of British bikes versus Japanese.

It almost happened in the USA in the 50's, one of the most celebrated protectionist cock-ups of all time, when Harley claimed to Congress that the (far superior) British bikes were being 'dumped' at less than cost. Congress took less than a day to find they had no case, and promptly put Harley in the dock for restrictive trade practices. With crushing irony, it was the rulings from these very hearings which would open the door for the Japanese a decade or so later. The moral is, be careful what you wish for.

(Reagan did institute tariffs on over-750cc machines in the mid-80s to protect Harley, by then a basket case.)

 

[boatman61]

There's more than one way to skin a cat.. and it need not involve complex legislation..
Back then the Learner limit was 250cc's and most British 250's could just about beat a Lambretta TV200 scooter.. then the 'Pocket Rockets' hit the market and Triumph etc bombed big time.. so they dropped the Learner limit down to 125cc's and left a hell of a lot of folks out of pocket as their Honda's. Suzi's and Kwaka's devalued by 2/3rds.. lets face it.. who wants to buy a bottom level bike after passing ones test..
Sales at Triumph et-al picked up again for a bit but the writing was on the wall.. Meriden went bust and closed.

 

[macd]

Back then the Learner limit was 250cc's and most British 250's could just about beat a Lambretta TV200 scooter.. then the 'Pocket Rockets' hit the market and Triumph etc bombed big time.. so they dropped the Learner limit down to 125cc's and left a hell of a lot of folks out of pocket as their Honda's. Suzi's and Kwaka's devalued by 2/3rds.. lets face it.. who wants to buy a bottom level bike after passing ones test..
Sales at Triumph et-al picked up again for a bit but the writing was on the wall.. Meriden went bust and closed.

It's funny, I've been around the motorcycle business for a long, long time and this is the first time I've seen the suggestion that the 125cc limit was a backhand way to help British manufacturers.
The 125cc learner limit came in in 1983. Meriden Triumph, which was pretty much all that was left of the UK industry, closed its doors in 1983. So when was this pick-up supposed to have occurred? Incidentally Meriden's final throes coincided with the highest new motorycle sales ever recorded in the UK: if you couldn't sell bikes then, there had to be something seriously wrong with them. And there was.

 

[boatman61]

More obtuseness.. I give up.. just one last gripe about my Kawasaki triple...
February 1983, however, when learners were restricted to 125cc/12bhp, and virtually overnight the sales of new 250cc machines ceased, not really taking off again.
Actually they stopped and started a couple of times..

 

[macd]

More obtuseness...

How can it be obtuse to address directly a topic which your brought up (and about which you're content to spout garbage as fact)?
Yes, it's obtuse to anyone else with any interest in the point of this thread, to all of whom I apologise.
Cheerio.