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Just spotted this on the sailing fair isle youtube channel here At 11 minutes 40 seconds into the video , checking into Portugal to be told at customs control "Schengen doesnt matter now in portugal" Interesting......... jr

Thanks for your helpful and prompt reply folks. If it happens again i will investigate further and report back. Now back to my sundowners on the foredeck 😎

Is it possible that the recipients have their ais proximty set to alert them as dsc sounds over their vhf?

The more i think about it, if it were a “distress” transmission then surely the coast guard or other boats would have responded?

I would do but i am in greece and rule number one out here is “do not contact the coastguard unless someone is dying” …. Quite literally …… but thats another can of worms for a different thread

Yes we transmit ais. The chap did ask if we were “Dory” which is our boat name whcich is now starting to make we wonder if it was an AIS transmission….but i could here his DSC alert going off in his cockpit. Come to think of it, the first time it happened a few weeks ago the other skipper asked...

This is the second time it has happened withthe unit off!

Chap just went passed 10 mins ago to advise us and i could hear his dsc alert going off. Confirmed it was us as the vhf transmits the boat name too. Checked our vhs and confirmed it was turned off

Its a Ray50 transmitting a general “distress” and no we have no other transmitters on board

We have a 2018 Dufour with plastic tanks. When filling the water passes through 3 filters 50/20/5 micron. We have a seperate drinking tap in the galley which has a carbon filter to remove the chlorine. No water bottles ever on board. Water tasted great and no ill effects ever

We have a dufour GL460 of 2018 with the standard raymarine VHF. We have been told twice now that we are tranmitting a DSC alert despite the vhf being turned off!!! Anyone got any ideas why this is happening? Thanks

Not an option for us now at this time. Was there last year though and yes it is very nice indeed

OK so an update on what has actually happened. We left Croatia stating we were heading for montenegro and were officially stamped out. We did not go to montenegro but headed straight for Corfu instead. Upon arrival and check in we explained to the port police and customs that we had a change of...

I hope you are right Seven Spades, The issue is likely to be Croatia will refuse to stamp us out as we are going to greece. I had this once before when leaving Italy. The port police thought we were going to greece and refused to stamp us out. He stated as you are going schengen to schengen i...

Ok so now we have now sucessfully got our Greek Class D visas and I need to go back to my original question relating to passport stamping. The boat is in Croatia at the moment so when we fly out in April our passports will be stamped showing entering Schengen. As Croatia is now in Schengen, as...