The Truth About Sailing On The Algarve

[nortada]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

The fee is not only for lights but also for buoyage. I suspect that for many people the buoys are more important than the lights but the entrance to a channel can be a bit tricky too although I agree that lighthouses are less important than they used to be.

Very true but as we know buoyage around The Algarve is sparse at not always that reliable - as visitors sometimes discover!

For many years entry to The Guadiana was a case in point but of late it has improved.

In this case I suspect Spain & Portugal hold each other responsible but little comfort of you end up on the training wall (on the Spanish side)

 

[GHA]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Very true but as we know buoyage around The Algarve is sparse at not always that reliable - as visitors sometimes discover!

For many years entry to The Guadiana was a case in point but of late it has improved.

In this case I suspect Spain & Portugal hold each other responsible but little comfort of you end up on the training wall (on the Spanish side)

Doubt if any of that will get you a discount...... "But I don't look at the lights or buoys, I should pay less!"

 

[nortada]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Doubt if any of that will get you a discount...... "But I don't look at the lights or buoys, I should pay less!"

Agree.

Better still don't sail in the dark after beer '0clock. Rather than pick up one of their's I would prefer to drink from my pot. Then there all all of those 'bits of string' in the water so after dark, if not in the bar, I will be at least 5nm off shore all around the Iberian Coast.

But back to topic - As said before, it will be interesting to see how emandvee44 gets on at the Portimao Capitania?

See Greeny managed to get a good deal; wonder where that was?

 

[emandvee44]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

But back to topic - As said before, it will be interesting to see how emandvee44 gets on at the Portimao Capitania?

M & V just back from the Capitania - do not go there! - They will charge €70 for 6 months for foreigners, and I asked them to confirm that it was for 6 months, not one year. The very nice lady did say sorry, but what could she do.

Ours is due in June so may look at other options (like leaving the country)

Cheers,

Michael.

 

[nortada]

Bad news so where did Green go

 

[greeny]

Bad news so where did Green go

Paid 8.50 for a portuguese registered rib earlier this year. Last time I paid for the SSR sailing boat was last year around June time and it was 11.50. It's obviously gone up now. Both these payments were at Portimao but sounds like they've increased their prices as have the rest. I'll recheck the paperwork for the rib next time i'm down at the boat.

 

[greeny]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

But back to topic - As said before, it will be interesting to see how emandvee44 gets on at the Portimao Capitania?

M & V just back from the Capitania - do not go there! - They will charge €70 for 6 months for foreigners, and I asked them to confirm that it was for 6 months, not one year. The very nice lady did say sorry, but what could she do.

Ours is due in June so may look at other options (like leaving the country)

Cheers,

Michael.

Thanks for that warning. I'll keep away from Portimao this year. Don't understand where the 6 months came from though if the list published earlier in the thread is correct. I'll make some discreet enquiries and try to find out.

 

[25931]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Thanks for that warning. I'll keep away from Portimao this year. Don't understand where the 6 months came from though if the list published earlier in the thread is correct. I'll make some discreet enquiries and try to find out.

I took it straight from the Diario da Republica so more correct would be difficult to find. As has been seen in the past not all Capitanias are efficient.

 

[nortada]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

As has been seen in the past not all Capitanias are efficient.

Think that is what some of us are banking on️

 

[crashtack]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Faro is much cheaper, I paid €11.50 this Morning for a year.

Also, to Nortada, 5nm is optimistic!! I got caught up in a lobster pot 80 miles offshore last year, on the way back from Madeira to Cascais. The West coast can be an absolute nightmare for Sailing.

 

[nortada]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Faro is much cheaper, I paid €11.50 this Morning for a year.

Also, to Nortada, 5nm is optimistic!! I got caught up in a lobster pot 80 miles offshore last year, on the way back from Madeira to Cascais. The West coast can be an absolute nightmare for Sailing.

Nice one cashtrack wonder how long before Faro wise up?

Lobster pot 80nm off shore! Not your day. What depth was that in? Any lobsters in the pot?

 

[PhilipH]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Currently sitting in Capitainerie Albufeira and getting whamoed for €70 for a year. Oh well, we do not pay much for Portuguese public services.

 

[Mikedefieslife]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Arrived in Faro the other day.

I've already come acoros the lobster pot mine fields sailing between Spain and Porgual. I thought it was crazy that they extend right from the beach to nearly 12nm off shore with gaps of only a few hundred meters.

That was nothing compared to turning into the channel to head up to Culatra, only to discover 5 small boats just floating around inside the entrance fishing. What the hell are they thinking?

Still, I think this one beats the lot. Making my way up the narrow channel from Culatra to Faro, and I see a fisherman setting his net across the width of the channel. WTF??!

I think it's time to buy a nice big rope cutter for my prop just in case.

 

[Heckler]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Arrived in Faro the other day.

I've already come acoros the lobster pot mine fields sailing between Spain and Porgual. I thought it was crazy that they extend right from the beach to nearly 12nm off shore with gaps of only a few hundred meters.

That was nothing compared to turning into the channel to head up to Culatra, only to discover 5 small boats just floating around inside the entrance fishing. What the hell are they thinking?

Still, I think this one beats the lot. Making my way up the narrow channel from Culatra to Faro, and I see a fisherman setting his net across the width of the channel. WTF??!

I think it's time to buy a nice big rope cutter for my prop just in case.

Where are you? Am near buoy 21

 

[Graham376]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Arrived in Faro the other day.

I think it's time to buy a nice big rope cutter for my prop just in case.

Where's your sense of adventure? We sailed from Faro to Guadiana yesterday and thought there were fewer pot and net markers than usual but, they're not much of a problem anyway as they use weighted lines and don't have pickup buoys on long floating lines, unlike the UK. As for the nets in the channel to Faro, it's fairly deep water and the nets are bottom weighted so not an obstruction.

 

[nortada]

Floating Lines

Where's your sense of adventure? We sailed from Faro to Guadiana yesterday and thought there were fewer pot and net markers than usual but, they're not much of a problem anyway as they use weighted lines and don't have pickup buoys on long floating lines, unlike the UK. As for the nets in the channel to Faro, it's fairly deep water and the nets are bottom weighted so not an obstruction.

Only place I have picked up lines is around Portimao where they like to string nets between two buoys.

Cutter doesn’t touch them so it is over the side with a bread knife. :disgust:

 

[25931]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Arrived in Faro the other day.



Still, I think this one beats the lot. Making my way up the narrow channel from Culatra to Faro, and I see a fisherman setting his net across the width of the channel. WTF??!

I read, almost weekly, that the PM have removed ilegal nets and from time to time, caught and fined the culprit - did you report the case ?

 

[Mikedefieslife]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

Where are you? Am near buoy 21

Closer to red 22 than green 23. In the shallow area. You must be just opposite the sand bar.

As I was coming through close to 21 at low tide, there was a skipper on a boat that I lightheartedly asked if he reckoned I'd get through. Was it you? My boat is a Prout 35, there is a Lagoon 380 next to me now.

 

[neil1967]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

When you pay your light dues do you just get a payment receipt or is it a licence/certificate?

 

[Graham376]

Re: 2019 Light Dues.

When you pay your light dues do you just get a payment receipt or is it a licence/certificate?

2 x A4 bits of paper off the printer. One is the payment receipt, the other is the certificate which is signed and embossed over the signature.