Turkish Transit Log

[aowen]

Off to Gocek in May for a weeks bareboating with Sunsail. They intend charging me 85 euros for a transit log. Presume this would be adequate for entire summer season but seems a bit steep for 6 days sailing. However if it has to be paid so be it but just wondered if Sunsail have added their own little mark up ? Would anyone local care to comment ? /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Tiercel]

I think the charge is a tad high. I signed into Turkey on 10.march. The transit log was €19 and the marina charged €30 to do all the legwork round customs, immigration etc for me. This would be roughly 100 turkish liras. Perhaps they have charged you in the wrong currency!

 

[demonboy]

Doing it yourself will take up a morning of your holiday, so if Sunsail won't budge on this cost you may have to swallow it. If you can do it yourself remember the authorities take a two hour lunchbreak.

 

[neil1967]

Some info here: http://www.allaboutturkey.com/boatrules.htm

$30 per transit log, which expires at the end of the charter.

Off to Turkey myself at the end of the week - Fethiye for a week.

 

[Amari]

Thanks for the useful link, however Gocek does not seem to be a port of entry so might explain some of Sunsail's fee - maybe they have to drive the logs to Fethiye etc

 

[neil1967]

Just returned from Fethyie. I paid around 90 Euro for the transit log; however, I noted that the top of the log clearly stated that it was a commercial transit log - it may well be that the commercial log used by charter companies is more expensive than a non-commercial transit log?