Welcome to the Free Sea Pass website, a non-profit lobbying site to request the creation of a special pass for use in moorings and anchorages around Europe from the European Parliament.

As we have never done anything like this before, we hope you will bear with us and, maybe, even help us to achieve this aim because, unless something is done to stop an ever-increasing number of safe havens from becoming beyond the financial reach of live-aboard sailors, many of us may be forced ashore, becoming a possible financial burden on our respective governments and being deprived of our right to live at sea.

In the mistaken belief that all boat owners are wealthy holiday-makers, local authorities all over Europe have started laying down mooring buoys in safe anchorages - marked on navigational charts for centuries, - insisting upon the payment of high fees, even if only anchoring, and restricting the stay of visiting boats to a few days.

This is an infringement of the rights of sea-dwellers, unless we are given special dispensation from these charges and rules so that we can continue to live aboard, as generations before us have done without interference. As Keith 'Robbie' Robinson has recently pointed out: in our lifetime we've already seen most of the best ancient anchorages turned into marinas, and had to settle for second-best anchorages instead, so we're only asking for the leftovers anyway!

It would be reasonable to charge a small administration fee for issuing a lifetime (or at the very least, a ten-year) pass and even agree that a nominal fee be paid to local authorities or concessionaires but lengths of stay need to be extended to, at least, three months, where desired and perhaps even longer where the sea-dweller has employment  ashore and local marinas are unwilling to provide a berth at reasonable rates.