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• Personal experience checking into Pescara October 2016... we arrived from Croatia, called Marina di Pescara on the VHF radio to inform them of our arrival into the country.

We had previously booked our berth & notified them of our intention to winter our boat here, so they were expecting us.

Almost as soon as we were secured into the marina berth, officials from Customs and Immigration showed up at our boat. I have no information to offer about the location of their office other than that they were very helpful and pleasant to deal with. They processed our paperwork and stamped our passports/cleared us in there at the dock. They did not board our vessel.

Shortly after that the marina manager informed us that we needed to go to the Coast Guard office which was a few kilometers away just up the river. He actually drove us to the office, dropped us off and we walked back to the marina after we cleared in with Guardia di Finanza and the Coast Guard. The entire process from arrival at the marina to finishing up at this office took no longer than a couple of hours. --Barbjgladney 19:20, 4 June 2017 (BST)

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• We arrived in thick fog, dodging several lobster pots foolishly placed in the marina approach, and would not have liked to enter without the RIB to guide us in. Athene draws 1.83 metres and at one point we had just 0.2 metres under the keel. --Athene of Lymington