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The fact that our articles on the inefficiencies and unnecessary bureaucracy that reign supreme in Italian boating were so clicked on confirmed, once again, how the problem is felt by those who go out to sea for passion. In the following article, we collected your comments to the articles that gradually addressed a different topic, from getting fined for using the DSC, to the overabundance of inspection bodies at sea, from the disposal of expired flares to overpriced Marinas. Be sure to keep reporting us (via comments on our website or facebook page, or by sending an email to speciali@panamaeditore.it, the “summer woes” you found yourselves facing around the seas!
POLICE CORPS (OUR ARTICLE HERE)
“4 police corps at sea are always too many, to maintain them we spend the ‘equivalent of 4 financial maneuvers combined!!!”
“…It won’t come to abolishing that useless entity that is the Coast Guard harbor masters…Wish you never needed in the middle of the sea…because they will be the ones to save your ass…A thank you for all they do”
“The usual myopic denier. The other Coast Guards, (the Greek one, the French one, the Croatian one, etc.) also save the asses of boaters in the middle of the sea. You cannot confuse dissimilar concepts to give value to your thesis. I am sorry to write this, but your attitude denotes superficiality. In this case the problem is not the problem but your attitude toward the problem as Jack Sparrow would say.”
“Maybe if with the same liveliness they controlled those who trawl under the shore….
the reality is this: the yachtsman is considered a rich chicken to be plucked while the local poacher always gets away with it ! let’s collect signatures to abolish the thousands of pseudo authorities who pass judgment on the fate of our coasts !”
USE OF DSC(OUR ARTICLE HERE)
“Very true!!! paid courses for everything to make money!!! in the merchant marine has been like this for over 20 years and now they want to make money from boaters as well, soon they will come up with a compulsory qualification to be issued after a paid course for ‘wc use, of course there will be course for wc within 12 miles and no limits from the coast…:-)”
“This is the bitter truth: paid courses for everything to make money!!! in the merchant navy it has been like this for over 20 years, and now they want to make money from boating as well, before long they will come up with a compulsory qualification to be issued after a paid course for the ‘use of the wc….”
TELEMATICS ARCHIVE OF VESSELS(OUR ARTICLE HERE)
“The circular issued in 2013 reads ” the system will be operational by summer.” But it is not known which summer. The fact is that our politicians do everything they can to bust the balls of Italians.”
FLARE DISPOSAL(OUR ARTICLE HERE)
“I replaced the flares about a month ago. The shopkeeper where I bought the new ones did not take back the old ones as the supplier only takes back his own brand. Started a telenovela for disposal ended at the local police station that picked up the old ones by issuing me minutes of delivery. going on like this, boating and boating will be increasingly in crisis: between exorbitant marina fees and the bureaucracy that generates more and more expenses, who will buy a boat ?”
PROTECTED MARINE AREAS (HERE ‘S OUR ARTICLE)
“Really, I agree with the article, it would be enough to circulate a petition in the marinas…why can’t I visit marine beauties with my sailboat??? what do I have a boat for? it’s okay to ban fishing, it’s okay not to dump (and we’d miss it!) however, let’s not go overboard!”
“BLOODLETTING” AT MARINA DI SINISCOLA(OUR ARTICLE HERE)
“Wednesday, July 13, for the first time in 8 years I decide due to mistral,…poor service, they put me on the dock at transit completely exposed to mistral while there were other moreinteligent places completely free…the mooringmaster for a change gives me the leeward tow and I have to tell him which mooring line I want him to take first. Having finished mooring, I am told that there is no electricity on that dock…which is brought to me with a series of extension cords. Dulcis in fundo..I go to the office and x an 11 m boat they ask me 93 € (we are on July 13…I don’t imagine in August), I comment smiling that it seems a bit expensive and and is more expensive than porto Ottiolu, I am answered that we are in high season and Ottiolu is smaller…whatever! For the record: arbatax 40€, villasimius 70-75 (August), Carloforte (sifredi) 76€, la Maddalena (gaveta) 50-60€. No comment…first and last time.”
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