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Polynesian Children's Initiatives – Ua Pou 09/2018

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At the Marquesas in Ua Pou, the catamaran "CONTRE-TEMPS" embarks a class of Air Marine!

For 5 years we have lived here, our guest ship Contre-Temps is known in the village of Hakahetau - Ua Pou -. A little thanks to the crew, thanks to the dog sailor Sikaflex that all the children of the valley love as a swimming buddy!
It's July, we have free time, so we take the opportunity to keep a promise made several months ago ... At the request of Mr. Pierre, in charge, with his class, of the educational marine air of Hakahetau, the children of the school are taken on a walk in the southern bays. The permissions were signed by the parents, the vests come from the va'a club, and our insurance covers this activity.
The crew is delighted, as much listening as the children, studious and funny as everything because Mr. Pierre, he knows many true legends and stories. There is the story of the last dolphin fishing, as well as the hunting parties on the ridges, the discoveries of the tombs encroached on as well as that of the lobster holes!
The children discover their island by the sea, the joys of trampoline and swimming and let the crew enjoy their knowledge of fishing techniques!
A day that everyone remembers, even today...

Meeting with Mr François CHAUMETTE, commander of the port of Papeete –

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Was present:
Florent Gachod
Eric Pinel

The purpose of the meeting: regulation of the anchorage in front of Faa'a airport, and more ...

We met on 07/02/19 Mr François Chaumette who is the director of the Autonomous Port of Papeete.
Cdr Chaumette explains that there is indeed a tough regulation to come on the anchorage in front of the airport as well as the one in front of Taina. It is aware of the very high demand of boaters to have mooring areas close to the city centre and is rather favorable; currently mooring is prohibited throughout the area managed by the autonomous port (from the Taunoa Pass to the Taapuna Pass), except for areas identified as authorized, areas that are currently under review.

Today the so-called "precautionary" anchorage is just tolerated in the area north of the airport. This area has been completely prohibited by decree since 1987 (Order 339 CM of March 27, 1987) to any boat "bridged" ... to all types of sailboats. Until today it has allowed a certain tolerence and has only served as a reminder of the regulations to sailboats stationed in this area. It draws our attention that it may be with regret, forced (by its management) very soon to verbalize offenders, but that it is trying to find and submit alternatives to the will of the autonomous port to remove all "tolerated" mooring areas to date.

In addition, any boat movement or mooring should in theory be reported to the lookout (vhf 12).
Mr Chaumette is very interested in our association because it will allow him to disseminate important information (regulated mooring zone, identification procedure with the lookout, reporting of any anomalies).

He will share our comments with his management and encourage us to meet very quickly with the ministers in charge of the file for a 'convergence of actions in the same direction'

The free anchorage of the Taina marina in danger

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Following this article in the press on September 11, 2017:

 

PAPEETE, September 11, 2017 - At the end of August, a TNAD representative accompanied by a bailiff carried out a situation report at the Taina Marina. They listed the number of boats anchored on the area between the channel and the land and between the marina and the bungalows of the Intercontinental Hotel. They asked the owners to move their boat as soon as possible.

https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Marina-Taina-les-bateaux-a-l-ancre-pries-de-demenager_a164532.html

the Autonomous Port, delegate of the area, had been contacted. Boats can anchor east of the channel "until further notice"

By press, TNTV this time, the association learns from the mouth of the president of the government that sailboats are no longer welcome in this area. "The autonomous port, with the means at its disposal, will take drastic measures for the evacuation, little by little, of the sailboats of this area" tells us Édouard FRITSCH.

 

We will see, as elsewhere, a privatization of public space. It is nevertheless paradoxical to see that this area will be, according to the TNAD projects, partially backfilled, that the marina could be extended to the east which in both cases means the total death of corals and current marine life while the government r to the boats their pollution, not to throw their black and grey waters out of the lagoon? When we see what a river carries, the amounts of mud that flow every day on corals, wild or authorized embankments, it must be remembered that pollution of the sea, and of the lagoon in particular, is very largely caused by life on land.

It is very sad to see that these free mooring areas are not preserved by the authorities. This buffer zone, tolerated by the Marina Taina and the autonomous port, allowed to find shelter for a few days. Moreover, no responsible sailor would stay at anchor for too long because it requires daily monitoring: a mooring does not withstand a wind rollover, unlike a much safer dead body.

There are three types of boats on this anchorage:

  • Wrecks on which we must actually legislate. It is up to the government to find legal means to act and work on a wreck-de-construction process. We know they are working on it.
  • Boats that park here because they can't find dead bodies because everything is saturated
  • Boats in transit. This is the essential function of this area: a buffer zone that welcomes boats from the other islands, which will supply them before leaving. In terms of maritime law, it is essential that areas that are sheltered, within the meaning of the law, be left behind. It's common sense: who would build highways without rest areas? (or emergency stop tape).

The government has opened the doors to the boating economy: 1.5 billion injected into the economy each year, extending the right of stay to 36 months instead of one year before 2014.

The government has lowered the amount of the import tax on boats (every person who wants to leave his boat on the territory for more than 36 months must pay a "Papeetisation" tax which was about 30% of the value of the boat before 2014 and that is 7% Today. There is therefore no question of exemption as TNTV mentions.

The government has therefore agreed to pocket the taxes of the navigators, now takes advantage of the financial windfall generated by this economic activity, but has done nothing since 2014 to develop infrastructure to accommodate all these ships. Today, nearly 600 boats stop in Polynesia and 4/5ths leave in the same year. The autonomous port invests billions each year to develop infrastructure to receive cruise ships that are a real source of pollution and which they pay no tax to the territory (it must be known) but no project concerning Boaters. Today, the mooring is saturated, largely because there is no more space available, nor dead bodies in the Taina marina.

Sailboats have no choice but to put themselves in the only available place, is some are besides Polynesian residents, work and in addition to having paid a heavy import tax they contribute like all land residents by paying taxes.

Not only has the government developed no infrastructure to accommodate but on the contrary, it closes to boating islands, like Bora Bora recently and perhaps others soon. You can't demand money from the people and drive it out when they've paid...

The so-called pollution generated by sailboats is a decoy that makes it possible to stigmatize this population. It is often because they have a complete lack of knowledge of the reality of life for boaters who have a real ecological sensitivity to the environment in which they live and that they respect more than anyone else. There is no pollution and I have proof of this the samples that are taken regularly and which allowed the Marina Taina to obtain a Blue Flag, just like the beaches of Bora Bora! This is the reality of the analyses done in a concentration of more than 300 boats.
In New Caledonia they are investing in a marina that will accommodate 900 boats! Because they understood the economic interest of boating.

You can access the quality of bathing waters and you can see that the area of the marina which includes the points "Papearia" and "Intercontinental" and which concentrates the largest number of boats are respectively BLEU and VERT.

Meeting minutes of volunteers

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Date: 10/11/2018, 2pm-4.30pm, Punaauia Town Hall

Participants: 14 people, including board members.

Agenda:

  • Status of negotiations with Moorea Town Hall on the PGEM file
  • Proposals for action
  • Contributions

Moorea PGEM Review

  • Boaters were "forgotten" in the instructionphase phase of this revision (typical example: incongruous notion of "night mooring")
  • Being "exemplary" will certainly have no effect (but you have to be in spite of everything)

Press

  • Press article on the complaint of the town hall of Moorea on the PGEM (request for a quasi-ban of mooring): it is an ultra-maximalist position, so to be taken with reservations about its real seriousness
  • Article P. Cosso: shared more than 1000 times on fb.
  • Article "Moorings in Huahine: the illustrations show mainly coral already dead, not live potatoes.
  • Chantal Spitz split an answer on fb on these articles, basically, I'm tired of these sailboats ...

Local aggression

  • Several cases of unfounded "requests" by locals to evacuate the anchorage immediately; whatever argument is used (authorized mooring, non-polluting, payer, ...) , in the end, the only real reason that ends up appearing is: the lagoon is mine, clears ...
  • Cases of proven threats against a sailboat, informed gendarmes, small reaction of the authorities to calm things down (south of Moorea)
  • Anglo-Saxons might be less affected by these problems (... perceived as "passing")?
  • List events of this nature?
  • Should we see the Minister of Tourism (remind her of the example of the various Caribbean islands boycotted by boaters due to numerous security problems (Haiti, Northern Venezuela, etc....)? She was promoting Polynesia in Panama, to sailboats ...
  • Communication on the various assaults
  • To the "young" who are excited?
  • Residents: don't care about the $$$ aspect
  • Local authorities (electoralism, ...?): the mayor of Moorea is the one of the "kite-surfing" banned overnight ...
  • Policies (rotten situation?)

Capture, privatization of the public domain

  • Restricting the freedom of the inhabitants themselves (who will also no longer be able to wet their boats)
  • Dissociate from boats parked at home (AirBnB and others) on Moorea's fairgrounds
  • Charters: little concerned, because will systematically obtain a derogation from any rule (typical professional example: case of "pink sands" in the PGEM/Fakarava Biosphere)

Taxation of boaters

  • Would indirectly answer the accusation of sailboats that pay nothing ... but no unanimity on the subject.
  •  The AVP must not propose taxation (such as a navigation permit) until the PF comes on its own.
  • It will be necessary to participate in the negotiation on the spot and the payment terms of this possible taxation (at the entrance in PF or by island, punctual/monthly/annual/stay, special case of the popeeties, amount, benefit included or not (garbage, ...), etc ...)

Recruitment

  • Plan a recruitment day (systematic door-to-door)
  • Use the file of an old petition to mail up proposals for AVP memberships

Help to the operation of the asso

  • GEX can make N/B photocopies at 10 frcs piece (flyers, ...)
  • Isabelle Roumagnac could be contacted for good quality English translations
  • Eric Pinel- Peschardière is the new Vice-President (to be officially validated at the next AG)

Film about life on a sailboat in Pf

  • mooring, NRJ, water, waste, expenses, local life integration, etc...
  • Purpose: to show what sailboats really are, to demystify with the locals, projections...
  • Scenario to prepare: Meeting November 20 at casa 5 p.m. on the subject
  • Opportunity contacts pros (P. Cosso)

Goodies

  • revive the idea of making specific AVP T-shirts? Illustration? Thinking about it

Contribution

  • The current contribution (1500 frcs) does not cover the expenses of the Asso.
    Its new amount will be 2000 frcs for the year 2019.

Various:

  • P. Cosso: contact Customs, for stats (written) entrances/exits of sailboats in PF in recent years (and all other useful data available on the subject: number of people per sailboat, report taxes popeetisation, ...)

Next office meeting: December 2, 2018, Casa Bianca, 5:00 p.m.

Bernard GUILLOU
Assistant Secretary

2019 membership campaign

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Your membership or renewal is more important than ever. The freedom to wet is directly threatened by the misunderstanding of our constraints, the lack of knowledge of the world of sailing and the desire for control and taxation. Infinitely respectful of the sea but in love with a space of freedom that we agree to share with all, there are many of us to be able to share our point of view. Join and join around you. Our weight also depends on our number.

Thank you for giving us the means to act together.

How do I join?

 

Moorea: My heart is bruised…

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My heart is bruised today, because the sounds of pontoons report that The island of Moorea is currently being flown over by an ominous bird. Yes, my friends, there is a bad omen in our sky that jeopardizes the respect of our freedom for all.

So a little light in my heart tells me that you have to react and sound an alarm to avoid a huge mistake. My only weapons: my excessive love for the ocean on which I have lived for fifteen years, and my pen, which I hope to handle with enough sincerity to explain to you who are these people who go to the sea and who are now accused of polluting or destroying the lagoons , and to which we want to ban moorings around the island of Moorea.

Whether we are earthlings, sailors, air, or in between, we are all concerned.

Drawing by Nilo Gima: Moorea boaters really polluters?

Everyone knows that our planet is not just sick, it is in agony. Global warming, air pollution, destruction of the ozone layer, deforestation, intensive fishing and non-compliance with the ocean with its disastrous consequences. The latest: the discovery of a continent of plastic residues in the middle of the oceans! The truth is that we are all directly responsible. How many plates, plastic cutlery, bottles and other waste end up in our lagoons, drained by the current in the passes? Of course we don't care, since it goes offshore. How many of us bathe after putting on sunscreen that ignores the disastrous effects on our corals? How many poorly regulated cars pollute the skies of our Polynesia every day without any real concern because the wind of the Alizés takes care of taking the gas elsewhere. How many seaside houses do not yet have septic tanks and dump their in our turquoise waters in the greatest carelessness because in any way, there is the current. How many hotels evacuate their sewers by pipelines offshore, how many big cruise ships come to anchor in our bays with the pollution they cause! And today they want to make us believe that we should ban sailboats from anchoring our lagoons because they pollute? How, for example, can we prohibit the sailboats from anchoring Maharepa and at the same time allow large cruise ships to anchor in Cook Bay when we know that only one of these vessels can emit as many fine particles as a million cars!
Aren't the elected officials behind this initiative mistaken in making sailboats their scapegoat?

Because I know them well, I know them well because I am part of it myself. Sailboats are one of the cleanest and most environmentally friendly modes of locomotion because a sailboat by definition moves with the wind and uses its engine only to make its last manoeuvre at anchor. It produces its energy through the sun and not by using a thermal power plant, because we are mostly equipped with solar panels. We produce our fresh water from the sea thanks to the desanilizer or collect rainwater. Contrary to what can be said, we are the first to preserve corals because we always choose sand bottoms to anchor, because they offer the best hold and we are safe there. Similarly, we are the first to love the ocean and pamper its coral garden, because we are aware of the extraordinary opportunity we have to still be able to swim above with our children. About that. I do not know a sailboat annex that does not stop to retrieve a plastic bottle that floats in its path, and believe me, there are! "Yes, but boaters don't pay taxes and take advantage of our garbage cans to deposit their waste, they are profiteers who live naked on their boats!" How many times have I read this kind of argument on social media? Error, those like me who arrived by sea and settled in Polynesia all paid a substantial tax to Papeetiser their boat. The same is true for those who buy a boat on site, they must pay a property tax (5% of the value of the boat). For the others, those passing through, I agree, and solutions have been presented by the association of boaters in Polynesia, such as the perception of a right of navigation accompanied by a small booklet recalling the rules of good conduct. In response to all these efforts, all these proposals, Moorea's elected representatives simply proposed to ban boaters from mooring without even specifying the reason for such a decision.

So rather than ban, wouldn't it be better to make the effort to get to know us better? Rather than pushing back boaters, wouldn't it be better to draw inspiration from them and take advantage of their experience, their unique knowledge of the sea in order to find solutions together?

Plato said: "There are three kinds of men: the living, the dead, and those who go to the sea. »

Let us not kill this last category, without which I remind you, French Polynesia would never have been discovered... Polynesia, the land of welcome...

Pierre Cosso

Pierre Cosso

Pierre Cosso,
Actor, navigator, free thinker

Journée Mondiale de l’Océan 2018

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Un village associatif est mis en place dans les jardins de Paofai le Samedi 9 juin 2018 avec des animations autour de la préservation des océans et du sujet crucial qu'est la pollution de ces derniers.

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Nous  tiendrons un stand pour rencontrer les gens, discuter et parler de l'AVP. Une activité ludique de matelotage, on propose d'apprendre à faire des nœuds de marins, des pommes de touline...

Ce sera donc l'occasion de nous faire connaître et de parler des problématiques que nous rencontrons avec le public.

Il sera aussi possible de proposer une animation publique au fare pote'e dans l'après midi, il faudra recontacter Louise pour cela; si vous avez des idées, proposez !

Inscrivez-vous pour tenir le stand de l'AVP :
https://framadate.org/hOuwE7FBTJhd1qzA

Rejoignez nous pour faire de cette journée Mondiale des Océans une réussite pour l'environnement !

 

Some disturbing news from the Galapagos

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Many of the boats arriving in French Polynesia pass through the Galapagos. Avaaz has just launched a petition https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/galapagos_loc_3b/ to buy a 230 ha parcel to preserve it.

Walter Bustos, the director of the Galapagos National Park, said: "We would like to further develop a much slower, experience-based type of tourism."

 

Source: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/animaux/especes-menacees/le-fragile-ecosysteme-des-iles-galapagos-entre-touristes-et-especes-vulnerables_2602852.html

Is this type of tourism compatible with the passage of sailboats? What did you see for yourself? What experience, even negative, do you get from your time in the archipelago? Leave your comments below... or write us an article!

Polynésie

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