The SERVICE BOAT program was first implemented by the French Local Chapter JCI Menton Roquebrune Cap Martin on the French Riviera. Since then the SERVICE BOAT program has expanded in the Mediterranean by becoming a JCI Community Project through many countries of the Mediterranean Sea area.

This project originates due to several acts:

YACHTS

1. Places in the Mediterranean ports are not in sufficient number for all the yachtsmen to enjoy the services from the port.
2. Thus yachtsmen choose to remain besides ports.
3. This deprives them from the services offered by the port (electricity,water etc.).
4. This does not give them access to stores necessary for everyday life consumption.
5. This way of living on boat entails pollution in the sea.

TOURISM at Sea

1. Tourists rent all kind of sea equipment (jets, boats, sea petal boats etc.
2. Sea is polluted by cans, bottles, paper (newspapers, magazines), plastic etc.

TOURISM at Beaches

1. In unorganized beaches that trash bins are not available all kind of garbage finds its way in the sea.

The mission of the SERVICE BOAT is :

• To collect garbage from the boats, tourists in the sea etc.
• To organize the distribution of trash bags.
• To explain recycling. - A flyer explaining recycling and protection of the environment to be distributed in order to create respect the ecosystem.

Simultaneously, the Service Boat provides yachtsmen with simple services like granting them with water, press, biodegradable bags...

The benefit for community:

Visual impact - This program contributes to the preservation of the landscape and to the clean beach.

Economic impact - The cleaning can represent an amount of several hundreds of thousands euros for the community and thus for the taxpayer.

Biological - This program aims at preserving marine life of the littorals. It may avoid the disappearance of some species of fish or aquatic plants from the sea.

Nautical activities - The SERVICE BOAT is also a guarantee of prosperity for other nautical
activities: it facilitates comfortable fishing, swimming and sailing and guarantees thus high-standard quality tourism.

More widely, the SERVICE BOAT contributes to arouse ecological responsibility among the yachtsmen, tuorists, locals through an information campaign relayed all the summer long.