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NickA
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Topic: Post Brexit: Towing in the EU Posted: 23 Aug 21 at 3:14pm |
Not sure where to post this question; but as I'm after genuine accounts rather than opinions..... Has anyone towed their boat across the EU since the UK left it? What was the experience like? Paperwork for the boat? Legality of an old-school british road base with "hung on the transom" light board? Before this madness occurred, trailing to the Javelin Euros in Germany, Holland, France was little different from trailing to Weymouth. Now I'm thinking of next year's Euros in Holland and just wondering if it's viable. If I can take my old road base, OK. If I have to spend £1300 on a new combi, and £500 on an international export/import carnet .....probably not.
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E.J.
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 27 Aug 21 at 10:34am |
I am Currently asking the same questions to the RYA for the exact requirement. I expect there will be a fair bit of boilerplate risk aversion, but when I've distilled it down to the critical facts I'll report back.
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Chris_H
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 27 Aug 21 at 1:09pm |
Whichever EU numptie decided that new trailers should have a pole sticking out from the base each side, wobbling uncontrollably, so that the unnessarily extra wide trailer board can be tied to it, deserves to be shot. He/She clearly never towed a dinghy. Design-Fail.
So I do hope old style trailers are now fine.
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Paramedic
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 27 Aug 21 at 4:33pm |
You are not under any obligation to use the outriggers.
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NickA
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 27 Aug 21 at 6:47pm |
"You are not under any obligation to use the outriggers" ....in the UK.
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Grumpycat
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 27 Aug 21 at 10:12pm |
Spot on . Before brexit it didn’t matter as our old rules and laws were grandfathered into the rules. Now they are not.
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Paramedic
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 21 at 4:46pm |
Can you show me anywhere where their use is mandated?
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Sussex Lad
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 21 at 4:55pm |
Tescos are out of saucisson sec, god knows why Could you bring some back?
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Do Different
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 21 at 7:35pm |
Speaking to Dutch classmates the trailer rules and very strictly applied in Holland.
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Grumpycat
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 21 at 10:47pm |
Old style trailers are still fine in the uk . BUT If you are now trailing in the EU you have conform to the latest regulations. We are a third country and no longer in the EU club . If your new trailer has a integrated lighting board you must use it under uk law. But to be honest no police service will stop you of you don’t , they are just happy you have a Lighting board of any kind |
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