New Balearic Islands law effective from today.

Thanks for posting.

Portals Vells is an interesting case.
This is where all the "Horray Henrys" go when they "Go To Sea" from Palma.
It is a day out for charter boats.
It will be interesting to see if the big charter boats still use Vells.

Last year, we did two Balearic cruises - either side of the peak summer season.
In both cases, we didn't encounter the weed police but we did keep a look out for them.

I agree with jrudge - it is virtually impossible to anchor in some of those places without your chain rubbing the grass.
Maybe they think that a short chain is enough - which it might be for a lunchtime stop but overnight you need a more secure anchor set.
 
jrudge said:
Bear in mind I had the weed police at 10pm knock on the boat having looked underwater their their viewing device and a torch.
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Blimey J, that puts even the silly attitude of Croatian guards to shame.
The half idea to come to the Baldricks with another couple of boating mates is unlikely to materialize in the near future, I reckon... :ambivalence:
 
Portals Vells was used as an example, the same was occurring in most of the other 'yellow' marked areas, there is nothing indicated on the maps to suggest anchoring is prohibited, the text of the decret presumably details the restrictions.
 
Over the 15 or so times we were in Vells last year, I only saw the patrol boat a handful of times. Our anchor was always on the sand but the chain was certainly across the weed (I can't imagine any location in Vells where being clear on both is possible). We were never tapped up.

Here's hoping they put some buoys out, although I imagine this will be the new morning sunbed race for ze Germans.
 
Ive got hold of a draft of the text of the decree (cant find the final version), but this is what google translate thinks it says about anchoring, there appears to be no mention of boat size limits etc. It Looks to me like if there are official buoys then you must use them and not use your own anchor at all. If there are no buoys then you can anchor in the sand only providing that the anchor and the chain never touch the posidonia (ie are always over sand)

google translate of part of the draft decree below:

Article 7 Regulation of boat anchoring

1. The anchoring of boats on posidonia prairies is prohibited.
2. In the event that there are nearby posidonia meadows, the chain must be avoided
or other elements of the anchoring may affect them.
3. In the areas enabled with buoys' fields, the boat anchoring will have to be
to do using this mechanism and, in no case, directly on the
posidonia meadow
4. In the fields of buoys, the boats will not be able to empty in any case
You do not feel or throw waste.
5. The provisions of this article will be without effect in cases of emergency.
 
Funny you should mention it M, because while reading the regulation that julians found, I was beginning to fear an invasion...! :rolleyes:
 
We found it fine last year and just anchored in patches free of posidonia. First out again to our base in Menorca in March so will see what the sitch is. Mallorca and Menorca both relaxed last year - don't know about Ibiza.
 
It will depend on where you go.

They are very active around Cala Dor and also further up the coast towards alcudia.

In port Collom there are big no anchoring signs due to Poseidon. That area also has activists that get boats who anchor on the local paper and report them. Porto Petro no anchoring. Cala mondrago is patrolled. It is a genuine and significant issue.
 
reading (with moderate interest) all that...

I wonder if someone with 200m of chain turns up and anchors at 40m (with a decent 1:5 scope :D ) how the heck are these guys gonna argue that he's disturbing the grass?
Do they also have rovs as well as glass and torches?

V.
 
Well Vas, if they have at least a vague idea of what they are pretending to protect, they shouldn't bother about anything happening 40m under the surface.
The thing needs a lot of light to grow, and that's the reason why it begins to be less widespread already on a 20m seabed, and extremely rare (to the point of becoming irrelevant) above 30m.
That said, whoever made the above regulation is either a total ignorant (i.e. unaware of what are the real factors threatening posidonia, as per my previous post #70), or have another agenda.
I suspect the latter, but either ways, they might as well go after boats anchored in 40m of water, I reckon... :ambivalence:
 
The Spanish do seem rather good at own goals.

Where I am based in Altea, there is a very small sandy beach at the foot of very tall vertical cliffs, only accessible by boat. The sea bed is just sand, we anchor our tiny boat (4.7m) in about a metre of water. There are no buoys. There is now a patrol boat that goes up and down about 10 nm of the coast that informs you that anchoring is no longer permitted.

Maybe they’re hoping seagrass will magically appear one day..........
 
The Ibiza zones look pretty draconian - places like Porroig, Benirras and Tagomago are very attractive spots to anchor and unlike some of the anchorages on Formentera are not overwhelmed by boats.
 
longjohnsilver said:
The Spanish do seem rather good at own goals.

Where I am based in Altea, there is a very small sandy beach at the foot of very tall vertical cliffs, only accessible by boat. The sea bed is just sand, we anchor our tiny boat (4.7m) in about a metre of water. There are no buoys. There is now a patrol boat that goes up and down about 10 nm of the coast that informs you that anchoring is no longer permitted.

Maybe they’re hoping seagrass will magically appear one day..........
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Is that between Altea and Beni by the little island?
 
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