Up to £5000 fees to sell your boat in the EU

[nortada]

Much will depend on whether boat being sold will be keeping it's flag or being registered in new country. If a UK boat based in Europe is being sold to UK buyer I doubt there will be any problems. I know of a couple of sales in progress at the moment, one changing to local registration so will be interesting to see what happens.

Sale of a British flagged boat, which was here on 31/12/20, to a new Irish owner has been completed here with no complications. Not sure if it has been reflagged to Ireland.

I will find out and report back.

 

[Adios]

And this applies to individuals bringing a single boat back The Recreational Craft Regulations 2017

Although it seems you'd need proof of the EU conformity and CE mark AND RCR conformity

 

[JumbleDuck]

Yes, in that one needs to confirm compliance when put into use or into the EU market from the UK; but, does the problem need to be a mountain?

Say a boat was RCD certified in the UK just before Brexit. Do you really need to check everything again, or could you sensibly ask whether anything has changed on the boat or in the standard, and then just check that? Could the owner self-certify if none of the relevant elements have changed? Up to £5k which is max for a complete RCD post-construction check today?

I have seen CE consultants have a cup of tea on board imported US boats and certify them without any checks beyond whether the boats are the same model as what is already certified by the official importer. Is that wrong... or just sensible?

Can we not agree a sensible approach between us and the EU?

(Above is not aimed at JD ... )

Don't worry, aim not assumed. And I agree. After all, much of the RCD stuff, like stability, isn't susceptible to easy change. Alas what with one thing and another we do not seem to be in a position where simple, easy processes between the UK and the EU are welcomed on either side.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

I can't see how it will stop Irish people importing boats from the UK, as we don't have an equivalent to the SSR, just a Part 1 type registration, which the vast majority of Irish owners don't bother with. The Irish Revenue Commissioners will have no way of knowing the provenance of the average boat found in any Irish marina.
This unregulated situation is not a problem for the Irish boatowner who does not venture too far, but up to Jan 2021 it was quite common for Irish boats to be registered on the UK SSR as a means of having a registration when sailing to France, Spain etc. This will no longer be possible, so anyone with extended cruising ambitions will have to go for the full-fat Irish Register of Shipping, with all the attendant costs. This Brexit mess just gets worse!