Junta to auction unclaimed boats

            The Junta de Andalucia has announced that it is to auction 35 boats which have been abandoned by their owners or which have accumulated unpaid mooring fees. The boats are distributed around nine ports on the Andalucian coast and range from a 3.58 m. long fibreglass, topper-style, orange and white sailing dinghy in the Port of Rota, Cadiz, valued at 100 euros to a 21.45 m. wooden yacht, the ‘Al-Andalus’, in the potrt of Adra in Almeria, valued at 10,000 euros. The highest valued boat is the 18,000 euro, 9,9 metre fishing cruiser; ‘Digger’ with two 200hp Mercury outboard motors (in a deteriorated state) in the port of Barbate in Cadiz. Thirteen of the boats up for auction are valued at 1,000 euros or less and all 35 come with the caveat of being in a ‘deteriorated’ state and without the necessary legal documentation needed for their use in Spanish waters. The total estimated value of the boats, according to the APPA – the Association of Public Ports of Andalucia, comes to just under 120,000 euros