POLITICIANS YACHTIES PROTEST: Why does the public stigmatize every nautical enthusiast, while no one touches cyclists?

Ivo: – I open the meeting of nautical enthusiasts in politics, apologizing for it being online. This is due to the epidemiological situation, but also my situation, if you understand me…

Zdravko: – Well, I am still at sea, but at a friend’s…

Dubravka: – Well, of course, what would you, a Slavonian, do with a yacht? Even though you were born in Brod, you surely need a skipper.

Zdravko: – But I have more friends with yachts. One has a 22-meter yacht, it was really nice, and I was on a nice trip around Vis two summers ago, but I don’t remember the length.

Slavko: – The length doesn’t matter, but friends do. I know how to sail with my Jozo, but he also comes to me, and we sail on my 13-meter ‘Tomi’…

Ivo: – Yeah, you are right about the length, but my Juro, when we set off on his ‘Malo vitra’… But then he had to sell it. What a shame, a beast of 18.5 meters. I hear it’s now in charter, I can’t wait to go out and rent it…

Ivan: – Are you going out?

Ivo: – Well, I hope so… one day. By the way, how do you feel as a Turopolje among us?

Ivan: – Well, that ‘Nimbusić’ of 11.5 meters is not much, but it makes a man happy…

Dubravka: – Well, it makes me happy too, my husband bought me a little yacht a long time ago and named it after me, ‘Dubica’, and now they remembered to drag me because I didn’t register it in the EU. Well, I’m not going to Brussels with it! There’s no sea there, I would have to moor it 45 kilometers away, in Antwerp.

Zdravko: – You know, Dube, I don’t really understand yachts, that’s why I have friends. But could you take ‘Dubica’ from Dubrovnik to Antwerp?

Dubravka: – Well, I have two Volvo Penta engines with a total power of 546 kW, that can pull it, but it might be a bit too long, it’s faster by plane.

Slavko: – Oh, Dubice, but at sea speed doesn’t matter, enjoyment is what counts.

Dubravka: – I agree, but it’s easy for you in retirement, you have all the time in the world, and I have to go everywhere: from Brussels to Zagreb and Dubrovnik…

Slavko: – And Pelješac, did you go there with ‘Dubica’?

Dubravka: – The party on the bridge was at midnight, and I don’t like to navigate at night…

Ivo: – Hey, I remember that it’s the most beautiful outside at night when you can watch the stars… By the way, what are we going to do about these journalists? They constantly call us out for these yachts. Why don’t they call out that Zagreb man on a bicycle, what’s his name…

Zdravko: – Tomašević.

Ivo: – Yeah, that one. He’s probably riding illegally and no one says anything.

Slavko: – Should we get back to us yachties? Ivo, have you seen Tomo?

Ivo: – No, I haven’t, he’s in some other circle… First a sinkhole, and now everything else, he’s really been hit hard.

Ivan: – Look, it’s not that bad with the journalists, we pensioners really don’t care what they write. We don’t read newspapers at sea anyway.

Zdravko: – I read.

Slavko: – Well, they can’t do anything to you anyway. As long as you have Andrej, you have no worries about the Conflict of Interest Commission, yachts, or armchairs.

This conversation is a product of the author’s dirty imagination.

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