Arguing for big boats at Sail

20-07-2015 18:14

The Association of Passenger Vaart Amsterdam Harbour Water (VPAH) is angry about the extra safety zone during Sail at the mouth of the IJ harbor.

  

Many of the skippers have not received accreditation. Issued by Stichting Sail on commercial vessels between 15 and 45 meters and provides access to the IJ harbor.

 

VPAH chairman Imre Leenhouts: "We were promised accreditation. With that promise in hand, we are going to attract customers. "

 

However, the accreditation was rejected yet, so decided skippers 'than just' sailing on the IJ, but with the new security zone that difficult. "For us it is just slammed the door."

 

Bottleneck

The reason for the additional zone is to prevent a bottleneck. Too long "party boats" could provide otherwise jam. If they want to turn the many pleasure boats to be pinched.

 

"It comes down to the Amsterdam companies every day are active in this region are locked in an extremely improper manner." The VPAH protests against the state of affairs.

 

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