Maintenance on own boat in Italy

[paddywackcocker]

Ive just arrived in Italy (Sicily) and have been told that due to regulations your not aloud to work on your own boat in any yard in Italy.
I did have this problem in Spain but just had to register with my “public protection insurance” and proof of business. It was very easy and straight forward, Italy seems very hard to find out how to go about it.
Does anybody have any information or advise please

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Ive just arrived in Italy (Sicily) and have been told that due to regulations your not aloud to work on your own boat in any yard in Italy.
I did have this problem in Spain but just had to register with my “public protection insurance” and proof of business. It was very easy and straight forward, Italy seems very hard to find out how to go about it.
Does anybody have any information or advise please

If you don't make a noise you should be alright

 

[AllWinds]

There are some youtubers doing a complete refit on their boat in Olbia! It's probably one of those things that you will have some yards won't let you for liability reasons and some will just turn a blind eye.

 

[Wansworth]

Never heard that you couldn’t work on your own boat in Spain .What you have todo is take the boat to a yard to clean the bottom

 

[colind3782]

Never heard that you couldn’t work on your own boat in Spain .What you have todo is take the boat to a yard to clean the bottom

In Empuriabrava you can't do anything above the waterline so you can scrape the bottom and antifoul but the yard insist on the pressure washing at €20/meter length

 

[colind3782]

That's why I do all the maintenance in the water and only lift out for things I can't do in the water.

 

[Solent Cruiser]

There are no laws in Spain, France or Portugal or the UK that automatically prevent an owner working on their own property. All the stuff about total liability and national laws is nonsense, any more than sitting in a restaurant, or filling up fuel in a petrol station, or playing golf . Yes you need your own vessel insurance and liability cover & like most have, and good marina's insist on seeing. What any business can do though is set their own exacting T&C about what happens on their property., like what, how, by whom and when. It is their right legally to do that. This is what many do so you have to pay for their onsite or other contractors . Thus, it is important that we avoid/boycott such places as most will recognise this, as a blanket policy, to be unreasonable behaviour. Of course there are some who will want this and prefer only contractors to work on their vessel - they don't have the time or skills, and have the money to pay etc.. The worse I've come across in this way is Tangier Bay Marina Yard in Morocco, where you can't even polish your boat without grief!

 

[paddywackcocker]

Never heard that you couldn’t work on your own boat in Spain .What you have todo is take the boat to a yard to clean the bottom

We have left Port Ginester (Barcelona) and have been there for 3 years. Their yard is a closed shop as is Villanova down the coast. You have to be a business registered with them otherwise you cannot work on your boat. There are plenty of other mariners in Spain that allow you to do your own maintenance but seem to be reducing.
Cala d or (Majorca) have 2 yards and only 3 company’s can carry out work and are very tight on security.
Italy (Sicily) seems like all have the same policy of no working in the yard.
Gagliari in Sardinia, one marina there does but I didn’t want to go backwards before going forwards again.
Hopefully I can find one that lets you do on the quiet