12/28/2023 0 Comments Marine atlantic arrivals departuresThey were not interested in Ships Papers, registration, liferaft service receipts, International Certificate for Operators of Pleasure Craft (ICC), or whether we had boat insurance. We were left with no option but to walk for 30 minutes to the PAF office where all the officials wanted to see was a hard copy of the PAF entry document (it is a good idea to print some off before you leave the UK), all the crew and their passports. The marina staff just commented that the PAF officials were ‘not reliable’.Īs one disgruntled British sailor said: ‘It took us 14 hours to get here from Weymouth and we only came to Cherbourg to get the passports stamped they wouldn’t let us in, and now we are stuck outside the marina in a truly awful anchorage in 35☌, and we are having to come in by dinghy to report to the police who never turn up. We all did.īy 1130, we were told that PAF officials wouldn’t be coming that day. After half an hour we were told to come back at 1100. The next morning, we, along with the crews of three other UK boats, duly assembled. ![]() Instead, we were told to go to the Capitainerie the next morning as PAF officials come every day at 09 to stamp British sailors in and out of the EU. We managed to sneak into an empty resident’s berth, Q flag flapping, and phoned PAF expecting officers to visit us to clear us in. It’s a long and complex spreadsheet, and while you can create it and email it to the three designated recipients – Border Force, the Home Office, and National Yachtline/HMRC – easily on your laptop at home, marina Wi-Fi, especially French marina Wi-Fi for emailing the e-C1331 for your return to the UK, isn’t reliable.Īlexa is finally in St Vaast. The first important thing to know is that you need to download the Excel app onto your smartphone so you can retrieve, amend and send the e-C1331 form. Credit: Paul DaleĪ scan of the new regulatory requirements – the e-C1331 process to notify the authorities you were leaving or arriving in the UK, and the corresponding PAF (Police aux Frontiers) paperwork for the other side – was a bit depressing.Īdvice on how to sail in the EU seemed to be ever changing, often out of date, and incomplete.Ī number of our sailing friends urged us to sail to France, to be guinea pigs.īelow is what actually happened over a very limited 10-day French cruise to Cherbourg, then St Vaast in mid-July. It does not store any personal data.On the buoy at Hayling Island waiting to leave to sail to France. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. ![]() ![]() The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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