How the Schleswig Holstein Sailing Association announces on its website the Ministry of Transport clarified by means of a general decree that trailers up to 6 km/h are completely licence-free.
This is the practice: numerous owners have been storing their yachts in barns in the countryside for years and transport them themselves. Their undercarriage: discarded agricultural trailers, usually without brakes, which they have converted themselves for transporting the boat.
In recent years, however, there have been occasional inspections. Strictly speaking, such trailers had to be presented to the TÜV.
The Ministry of Transport has now officially clarified that such an individual licence will no longer be required in Schleswig-Holstein in future. It is rightly trusted that owners will not put their ships in danger and will only transport them with sufficiently dimensioned trailers.
We can only hope that other federal states will follow this example. After all, despite this clarification, the obligation not to impair road safety remains.
Lasse Johannsen
Deputy Editor in Chief YACHT
