[Rhodes22-list] SAILING TO ITALY

Shawn Boles shawn.sustain at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 21:56:38 EDT 2017


Chris:

Have a wonderful time and keep us posted. Best to Alice and Enosis!

Cheers
Shawn
s/v Sweet Baboo

On Jun 27, 2017 6:03 PM, "Chris Geankoplis" <chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My wife and I are in the beginning stages of shipping our well traveled R22
> to northern Italy. *  I thought that I would keep the list posted with
> details and some photos of the process.  Like everything in life we are a
> bit late, we intended on shipping it over in early to mid June.  It now
> looks like the 28th of July will be the departure date from Baltimore.  The
> transit time to Livorno (near Pisa) is supposed to be between 15 and 20
> days.  It certainly is not an economic decision to ship the boat as opposed
> to buying a small boat over there.  But owning a boat is not a cold
> economic decision.  Heck, building the things isn't either, ask Stan.
>
> One task is to trade my really nice trailer for a not-so-nice one because
> the boat must be shipped on a trailer and then transported to a nearby
> marina in Livorno. I will have to pay import duty on the trailer.  The
> trailer will then be donated to the sailing program at the marina.  Hence
> the desire for a "throw-away" trailer.  Lucky for me Bob Lester is helping
> out with the exchange.
>
> Shipping cost to Italy on a Roll-on-Roll-off ship is around $4,300.  There
> will be some fees at the Italian end for sure.  I booked a nice Air-B&B**,
> the owner has a sailboat and is very simpatico.  The cost was about $500
> for two weeks from the 11th through the 25th.  That should keep me there
> for the arrival and the inevitable bureaucratic run around.  The boat is
> entering the EU under a TI, temporary import, which should give us 18
> months in the EU/Schengen area  before we have to leave.  That will give us
> plenty of time to sail to Sicily, leave the boat over the winter.  We will
> go back to our "home", a Catalina 387, where we will spend the winter in
> the Bahamas.  We will have enough time the next summer to sail from Sicily
> to Croatia and then leave the boat in Montenegro or Croatia both of which
> are not in the Schengen Area.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or information that my help in this process, do let
> me know.  If I can answer any questions, again, let me know.
>
> Chris Geankoplis
> S/V Enosis
>
>
>
> *WeShipBoats.com
> Orlany Hernandez is the contact.
>
> ** https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9589252?location=Livorno%2C%20Italy
> Maurizio is the contact
>
> Chris Geankoplis
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