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So it turns out that if you have your own sailboat, you can rock up at Cherbourg Marina and as long as it’s after 6, nobody knows or cares because immigration have gone home to watch the football or some shit.

Illegal border crossing is something you get to do if you’re middle class, apparently.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

Yup. You know that Calais trip I tooted about. Customs rarely turned up on our return. Shed loads of yachts and boats and if they can be bothered, one bloke appeared to watch us come ashore.
in reply to Sarah Brown

it is all done on trust as you are supposed to show yourself to the harbour master to pay your mooring fees etc.

The assumption is that if you can afford a yacht or seagoing vessel you are trustworthy, because you are the Master of a vessel!

in reply to Sarah Brown

the panic is about _small_ boats, not medium-sized ones.