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10-03-2016, 07:40
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
Oh look, a unicorn!
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10-03-2016, 07:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Tasmania, Australia
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
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Originally Posted by Lizzy Belle
Oh look, a unicorn!

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10-03-2016, 07:43
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Netherlands
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
A government concerned about their citizens health ... acting proactively to remedy that ...
There MUST be rainbows and unicorns too!
(Sorry, drunk on sunshine. I'll be back to normal soon  )
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10-03-2016, 07:47
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Registered User
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Location: Tasmania, Australia
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
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Originally Posted by Lizzy Belle
A government concerned about their citizens health ... acting proactively to remedy that ...
There MUST be rainbows and unicorns too!
(Sorry, drunk on sunshine. I'll be back to normal soon  )
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Oh, im dry at the moment. Its almost 3am, a drink of someth would helped me get to sleep. Good night. Im off to dream of unicorns
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10-03-2016, 07:48
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Registered User
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Location: Netherlands
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
 g'night, RC, sleep well !
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Dutch ♀ Liveaboard, sharing an Ohlson 29 with a feline.
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10-03-2016, 08:00
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Switzerland
Boat: So many boats to choose from. Would prefer something that is not an AWB, and that is beachable...
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
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Originally Posted by Jason Flare
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99% of all statistics are made up.
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10-03-2016, 08:10
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Massachusetts
Boat: Formosa 41
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
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Originally Posted by Lizzy Belle
Just between you and me: I don't think that's the real reason 
Just the way they decided to sell it. It's all in the marketing.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lizzy Belle
A government concerned about their citizens health ... acting proactively to remedy that ...
There MUST be rainbows and unicorns too!
(Sorry, drunk on sunshine. I'll be back to normal soon  )
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As you say above, and I agree with, the government is using the health of its citizens as an excuse for this law. (Per the OP.)
My position is that government uses all the arrows in its quiver to expand itself. Some of those arrows are labeled, "health," "welfare,""environment."
Is government disingenuous? Absolutely.
Enjoy the sunshine.
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10-03-2016, 08:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Massachusetts
Boat: Formosa 41
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
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Originally Posted by K_V_B
99% of all statistics are made up.
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I agree. And it's going up.
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10-03-2016, 08:21
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Location: PORTUGAL
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
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Originally Posted by Jason Flare
There doesn't have to be a link proving that people who apply anti fouling are getting cancer. It has been determined a carcinogen by the government. The government uses the possibility of people getting cancer to expand said government, all the while praising themselves for nipping an inevitable tragedy in the bud.
Government likes to expand itself. There is little historical evidence to the contrary.
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Unless it relates to the Motor, Oil and Nuclear Industry's.. then its everything else's fault  
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10-03-2016, 08:29
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Skagit City, WA
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
Boy... they love to protect you from yourself over there don't they? As if some former burger flipper yard boy can do it better than you. The guys with lots of experience wouldnt be caught anywhere near bottom work.
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10-03-2016, 15:11
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Grenada
Boat: Oyster
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
sadly these people in Europe put themselves in a position of authority, and could not organise an affair in a brewery ,never mind trying to tell the rest of us how to run our lives,whilst collecting their big salaries, most if in business would be bankrupt, the quicker uk departs Europe and gets out of these unreasonable cockups the better.
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10-03-2016, 15:21
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#58
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Registered User

Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Caribbean live aboard
Boat: Camper & Nicholson58 Ketch - ROXY Traverse City, Michigan No.668283
Posts: 6,281
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
I think the "safety" theme is a red herring. When something makes no logical sense, follow the money. Someone (the boat yard owners & workers collective for instance) thinks they will make more money by forcing us to pay for professional services and paint mark-ups. I assume the paints will be controlled substances you cannot buy or import.
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10-03-2016, 22:12
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 429
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
Getting re-elected to that beautiful gravy train drives every single thing all governments and all individual politicians do.
If a politician motivated by more than greed exists anywhere on this planet he, she or it is there for the respect, position and power - just like the priests.
Blowhard, posturing, pink-skinned blimps strutting and boasting like boxers come election time - give me a break.
Democracy gives us the politicians we deserve though, so we're to blame.
Democracy always was, is and always will be a crock until education is universal and decent enough that voters can see them for what they are.
Technologically we're racing ahead but societally & culturally I think we're dumbing down alarmingly. This is exactly where politicians need us to be though - compliant, gadgeted up and unable to tell **** from Shinola.
No offence if you're not seeking public office
Call this a rant? This is nothing...
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10-03-2016, 23:29
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#60
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: La la Land
Boat: 37' Oyster Heritage
Posts: 416
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Re: No more DIY antifouling in EU countries?
IIRC you can't do your own antifoul in New York State either!
I hope this is one of those daft EU regulations that gets ignored by most sane people. Here in the UK we suffer from a 'gold plating effect'.
Any directive is added to and burnished so the politician or bureaucrat can increase their fiefdom. An aspect that has not featured in the current memebership debate.
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