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    LETTERS

    Dec 07, 2023 6 minutes

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    Call for clear entry/exit rules post-Brexit

    I could not agree more with Mr Peter Crouch’s comments in YM October. The only upside to the shambles of Brexit has been that we have sailed to and spent a lot of money in our home ports on the East Coast.

    Next year will probably be similar, with us venturing to the South Coast.

    I wonder if the restaurateurs of northern and western France are aware of just how few of us are actually sailing over now?

    We need clear and equal rules on entry and exit. The Continental sailors seem to have no problem coming to Britain. Ramsgate sees lots of Dutch, German and Belgian boats but few French yachts, it seems to me.

    We would love to sail to France as before but it just seems complicated trying to find customs

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