"Dave Baker" wrote in message
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Has anyone out there purchased a boat in the U.S and then shipped it
to the U.K? I live in England and am currently looking into buying my
first boat, some sort of 17-18ft bowrider. After a bit of research I
discovered that the Maxum 1800MX, for example, is about 14000 pounds
here but only about 14000 dollars in the US - that's equivalent to
£7-£8K!!!! It's not fair! - Hence my question.

If anyone has done this before, I'd be interested to here of any
problems, unforseen expenses etc.

Thanks, Dave Baker.

I read an article on this recently:
Boats has to have a CE certificate to be sold, resold, insured, used (?) in
Europe.
The certification cannot reasonably be done after import bacause,
according to the article, the US manufacturers does not provide the
information
needed.
/Lars J