Spectacled sailors, they can no longer stop you from getting your license!

Boating, licensed, wearing glasses. Finally, it will be possible. For several years already we have been announcing the absurdity of the rule that stipulated that a minimum of 3/10 natural in the worst eye (and that the eye test had to be taken without glasses) was needed to obtain or renew a boating license.

THE END OF A MADNESS
Now this madness will stop reaping victims: with Decree no. 182/2016, just published in the Official Gazette, visual requirements are changed for obtaining or validating a boating license, required by the Regulations implementing the Recreational Boating Code. Now the person must have a normal field of vision, color sensitivity sufficient to quickly and safely distinguish basic colors (red, green, blue), twilight visual acuity of at least 1/10. The required visual acuity can be achieved with glasses or contact lenses of any dioptric value.

BECAUSE IT WAS CRAZY STUFF
It is worth remembering what the situation was like previously. In a nutshell, on the basis of the infamous Decree 26/7/08 No. 146 with Annex I (Article 27) dated 22/9/08, it was necessary for a subject with the naked eye to see at least the third line of the vision control board at the prescribed distance. And a small refractive defect, greater than one diopter on average, was enough for this not to be possible. In practice, anyone who wore a pair of glasses, even of very modest power, would not be eligible for a boating license, despite a corrected visual acuity of 11/10 per eye. Absurd, when to fly a helicopter the limit is 1/10, not to mention the automobile, which has no natural visual limits but only 10/10 corrected overall, that is, adding the two eyes together, is sufficient. Not to mention that the one for boating was the only license that denied the use of glasses for driver’s license. Why with the car and airplane yes and with the boat no? What was the legislature’s perverse discriminatory criterion? How could it have been thought that leading a boat did not allow the use of glasses? We hope that just as this absurd rule has been cancelled, the other absurdities we told you about in our special BUROCRACY CANAL will be done away with.