The APB assures Portitxol boat owners that their recreational boating conditions are set to remain the same
The port authority will reject any proposal from the Portitxol Yacht Club to extend the current conditions for directly managed moorings
Palma
23/01/2025
The Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) has informed the directly managed mooring owners in the Portitxol roadstead in the port of Palma that the current conditions of the social moorings they enjoy will be guaranteed and that their situation will not be affected by a possible extension of the Portitxol Yacht Club concession, which expires at the end of this year.
The APB president, Javier Sanz, met this morning with the newly created Social Mooring Platform of the Port of Palma, representing the owners of the directly managed moorings at Portitxol. The purpose of the meeting was to clear up any doubts regarding how the proposed extension of the yacht club's concession might affect their rights as users, and he assured them that their conditions would not worsen in any way.
The APB intends to remain open to evaluating any project proposals submitted by the Portitxol Yacht Club aimed at preserving and improving the general interest and services enjoyed by mooring holders.
Bilateral talks
The APB is aware that the managers of the Portitxol Yacht Club are drafting a project to request an extension of their concession, although it does not know the details. It also knows that the managers of the nautical club have met on several occasions with the users of the directly managed moorings and have offered them two options. On the one hand, they can become members of the yacht club with mooring rights and the same conditions as current members, or they can be managed by the yacht club, maintaining the services guaranteed by the APB but without the rights of members.
Currently, there are around 425 small social moorings in the Portitxol roadstead of the port of Palma, managed directly by the APB, and around 300 moorings managed indirectly by the Portitxol Yacht Club.
