Online petition against sojourn tax

The Croatian government has substantially increased the amount of sojourn tax for owners and users of boats via a regulation that defines the sojourn tax for 2018, which comes into power on January 1st of 2018. According to the mentioned regulation, the sojourn tax for boats (determined by the length of the boat) will substantially increase – from 58% for smaller boats, up to 752% in some cases concerning boats longer than 20m in length.

The Croatian online portal Nautica Portal has started an online petition against this. You can sign this petition under this url:
https://www.petitions24.com/peticija_za_izmjenu_uredbe_o_utvrivanju_visine_boravine_pristojbe

The Austrian marine enterprise SeaHelp also has started an online petition. You can sign this petition under this url:
http://www.sea-help.eu/online-petition-zur-aenderung-der-kurtaxe/

New Buoys in Loviste

This September, new buoys were placed in:

• Loviste - Peljesac

Thanks to Karl-Heinz Beständig for this information.

New Anchorage on Island Unije

Since this summer there are new buoys available in:

• Potkujni - Unije

Thanks to readers of my site for this info.

Crazy concessionaire in Silba

As several newspapers reported, this summer the concessionaire of Silba attacked an Italian yacht that was anchoring outside of the concession area. The skipper of the yacht caught the whole scene on video and informed local authorities, investigations against the concessionaire were opened. See articles including the video here or here or here.

Buoy removal in County of Split-Dalmatia

As reported by the MPPI (see here) and Croatian newspapers (see here or here), the Port Authority of Split-Dalmatia is removing illegal and outdated Anchorages in the County of Split-Dalmatia. The action starts today, a total of 156 buoys will be removed from 17 places, in detail the following bays will be free of buoys within the next days:

• Cove Sičenica, Sevid - 8 buoys with anchor device
• Bay Luka, Povlja, island Brac - 8 buoys with anchor device
• Gradska Luka, Split - 7 buoys with anchor device
• Bay Kašuni, Split - 5 buoys with anchor device
• Bay Spinut, Split - 2 buoys with anchoring device
• Cove Porat, island Biševo - 6 buoys with anchor device
• Island Budikovac Veli, Vis - 12 buoys with anchor device
• Bay Stari Rukavac, island of Vis - 11 buoys with anchor device
• Cove Tepluš, island of Vis - 6 buoys with anchor device
• Cove Vela Travna, island of Vis - 6 buoys with anchor device
• Cove Borče, island of Hvar - 21 buoys with anchor device
• Bay Milna, island of Hvar - 7 buoys with anchor device
• Cove Zarače, island of Hvar - 7 buoys with anchor device
• Cove Lovisce, island of Scekra - 4 buoys with anchor device
• Cove Lovisce, island of Scedro - 6 anchor devices
• Vela Garščka Bay, Hvar island - 12 anchor devices
• Pribinja cove, island of Hvar - 28 buoys with anchor device

Most of this anchorages were illegal and therefore not listed in my map, but some of them are outdated concessions, so I marked them as "Out of Service" in my map.

You can find another interesting newspaper article about the illegal Anchorages of Split-Dalmatia here.