Jet skis, Italy and new law

[Metabarca]

Hot off the press: a new law governing sailing in Italy (the first decent law this government has produced!). Points of note/interest to non-Italian sailors in Italian waters are these:
- if you stray into a protected nature reserve, you will get a whopping fine but face no further action;
- jet skis: only with licence and only if 18 or over. Hooray!!

The Guardia Costiera will be enforcing the existing and new rules vigorously this summer, keeping engines and bathers apart especially, and checking on speed. On the news last night, I had the pleasure of seeing JSP (jet ski prat) collecting a euro 2300 fine for zooming through an anchorage with swimmers about. Also a diver with speargun close to swimmers (doh!!)

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[Twister_Ken]

Maybe the Berlusconi govt is not so bad after all.

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[Metabarca]

yes it is! (Swap you Berulsca for Blerch for a bit?. Make a change having a poodle instead of a chimp for a bit.)
This law probably just means he's got a big boat, has declared a nature reserve around his anchorage and hates jet skis (so at least he's got one good point!)

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[tcm]

Re: Jet skis, France and new law

I believe that there is a similar law pending in france, with charter guests required to take a course before using PWCs.

Mind you, i remain a fan of the Gardia Nautiques (floating coppers who can bollock/ ground pwcs) who had a word with legal-but-too-close-and too energetic/near to each other pwcs in an anchorage a few days ago near Cannes. Whereas the licences/training seem so rubbish that less than 1 in 20 show the correct lights at night, notably a large Manugusta at 10pm with presumably professional crew en route to cannes/mandelieu with only an anchor light at 35 knots. Nice one.

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[Dominic]

Re: Jet skis, Spain and new law

Following a number of deaths last year - hired jet skis killing swimmers,

The Canaries situation is;

No hire to under 18s,
Inexperienced hire users (those without a PWC "driving licence") are confined to a bouyed circuit

In one bad incident a 17 yr old holidaymaker killed a 12 year old girl (who fell off a towed "banana"). He went to jail, which spoiled his holiday, and the jet ski operator went to jail for hiring one out to an under 18.

Local citizens need the full proper "driving licence" to operate one, which must of course be registered as any other vessel needs to be.

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[ecudc]

They've also just banned the import or spiders....suspect their president doesn't like jetskis or creepy crawlies.

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[Gordonmc]

Meanwhile, Malta...

has rigorous restrictions on use. Although I don't have chapter and verse, no hire to under 18's or to unqualified users. When I hired one I had to have a qualified instructor riding shotgun.

Use near the beach was restricted to a bouyed coridoor at slow speed with a line of bouys marking speed de-restriction. The instructor told me there were hefty fines and loss of operator licences for hirers if they broke the rules.

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[Gunfleet]

the trouble is

the people who pratt about with them - round here anyway - seem to be 25 - 40.

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[charles_reed]

Berlusconi

See this week's Economist for a challenge thrown down to this undoubtedly crooked man.

Or even better go to the economist.con website.

Trouble is the issue will probably be confiscated in Italy as a piece of terrorist subversive literature (as Mahathir Mohammed did earlier).

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[Metabarca]

Re: Berlusconi

hmmm, I haven't received the latest issue yet (I'm a subscriber). I know Berlusca took the Economist to court last year (?) because it dared to raise some doubts about his suitability. Not sure what happened in the end.

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[charles_reed]

The Rematch

I believe the last action foundered and "Economist" have now gone further than describing him as "an unfit person" they've now published scrip and issue.
The print version has only details of the SME affair appended to an open letter but the web site goes much further and includes some possibly uncorroborated (as yet) mud.

I suspect the action will be in London so that the reportage could be quite open.

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[Pelican]

Re:Lastly, Switzerland

Has banned the damn things!
Pelican

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