A Scarborough pleasure boat, which was involved in the Dunkirk troop evacuation, has been prevented from sailing between Scarborough and Whitby because of EU red tape.
The Coronia has been given a European Class C Licence, which is a legal requirement for passenger boats, which limits it to 30 nautical mile round trips only - within three miles offshore.
The distance between Scarborough and Whitby is seventeen nautical miles, meaning that round trips would be four miles over the boat’s legal limit! The British certificate also stipulated a 30 mile limit, but this could be increased slightly at the discretion of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The boat is only able to run trips which stop short of Whitby and no passengers are allowed ashore.
The Whitby trips have proved very popular in recent years, with around 95,000 passengers making the journey since 1992. Local people wanting to make the journey had wondered why the trips were not advertised, now they know! The small boat which sailed to Dunkirk and back without a hitch is deemed by the EU to be unsuitable to sail between two Yorkshire coastal towns.
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