Spain relents for sailors - berth owners secure

6:56 PM Thu 12 Aug 2010 GMT

'This practice of arbitrarily changing lease end date - taking thousands of dollars of value off the berth - will now stop' .

It's taken 12 months of frustrating campaigning but there is light at the end of the tunnel for thousands of berth owners in Spain where the authorities have finally called-off plans to impose the dreaded 'Ley de Costas'. As reported by Sail-World, earlier this year Genus Marine, one of Europe's leading marina berth brokers, became aware of an onerous new development in the Spanish legal system and decided to help their sailing customers. While the majority of these are British, owners also come from as far afield as South Africa and Australia, as well as many from Europe. 'Ley de ...

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by John Sharp