Albanian legislation allows you to sail in Albania with a motorboat whose power does not exceed 30HP. Therefore, if you arrive in Albania during the summer vacation, you can rent and sail on the sea with a motor boat without having a license.
You must be careful, however, that the engine power is less than the legal limit of 30 HP. On the Internet you can find several sites where boat owners from Albania make their boats available for rent.
If you don’t want to search online, you can go to any port on the Albanian coast and you will definitely find boats of different sizes moored at the shore with rental notices and owners’ phone numbers.
To rent a boat in Albania and sail it on the sea, you only need an identity document. Based on it, a rental contract is made. You must have this contract on board and you must present it in the case of coast guard control.
The boat you rent in Albania, regardless of whether you do it in Ksamil, Sarande, Vlore or other places, will be made available with the related fuel. The payment of the fuel used for sailing at sea in Albania is generally paid separately from the price initially set for renting the boat. Depending on how much fuel you use, the price is paid to the owner of the boat at the end.
You don’t have to worry about the payment when renting a motor boat in Albania. The owners accept both payment in the local currency and payment in the single European currency.
So keep in mind that you can drive a motor boat in Albania without having a license. It is phenomenal to be able to go with the family on a trip to an island in Albania with a boat that you can drive yourself.
You know now what you will do in the summer vacation of 2023 in Albania!
