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The year 2025 has just begun after a year full of steps forward for the Italian yachting world. We are talking about the nautical license, the updating of the necessary equipment and the simplified title for 2nd class officers to, in a nutshell, be able to skipper in good standing. There are still, however, many unresolved issues, but they deserve attention because they affect everyone. The main problems are in bureaucracy, laws that complicate life, obligations that are often too onerous, insufficient landings, and poor services that make boating less attractive and easier. As a magazine together with the Journal of Sailing, we want to keep the focus on certain issues, with their solutions, to improve the industry by making boating (and nautical tourism) more practical for a potentially huge audience. In multiple episodes, we will talk about many issues plaguing boating and our proposals for solving them.
Boats: what end of life? The French model
Too little is said about it, but the problem of disposal-crashing-recycling of recreational vessels is not a minor issue. There are so many boats and vessels that are abandoned in harbors and on the shoreline, run down or even burned. This on the one hand causes very serious damage to the environment, marine life or at best taking up valuable space and deteriorating the landscape. The fact is that when the boat is no longer usable, there are few options open to the owner: either disposal and recycling or abandonment. And unfortunately, considering costs and difficulties for the first choice, many fall back on the second. For years, boating associations, ports, shipyards, environmental organizations, research organizations, European and national institutions have been studying the problem, holding conferences, but without offering concrete solutions.
Our proposal: start a census of abandoned boats by involving local governments, ports and maritime authorities. Create a chain of facilities to dispose of pleasure craft on the model of the French Aper (Association pour la Plaisance Eco-Responsable) where the operation is free of charge for the individual boat owner. Establish agreements with transport companies to facilitate the movement of boats to disposal centers.
Fabrizio Coccia
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