Seven Spades
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My boat is on the hard but I am interested to know if the authorities are turning a blind eye to anchoring overnight, or are people being warned away etc?
Wear a Dom Cummings mask, when on deckMy boat is on the hard but I am interested to know if the authorities are turning a blind eye to anchoring overnight, or are people being warned away etc?
As far as I know you are not legally obliged to answer questions from a harbour master. The fact that the boat was away from her mooring overnight does not prove that you were away from home overnight.We have been told we are ok for day trips but not over night, staying out wouldn't be a problem but they might not be keen on letting us back in the next day!
As a way to cock a snoot at authority's stupidity, it has some appeal, but I do wonder where I'd wake upA friend suggested sailing 12 miles offshore into international waters and then heaving-to for the night
You don't need to - they are lawful unless you can see something in the regulations (not the guidelines) that explicitly prohibits them and that doesn't exist.I haven’t seen anything in the guidelines allowing overnight stays. Everyone will make their own judgements but I personally am not going to ‘Cummings’ the rules until it is a bit clearer that infection rates are staying down.
My respect for rules of grammar are rather more lax.
A friend suggested sailing 12 miles offshore into international waters and then heaving-to for the night
You don't need to - they are lawful unless you can see something in the regulations (not the guidelines) that explicitly prohibits them and that doesn't exist.
Apparently it was going to be put into the latest revision but was left out eventually because it is acknowledged that legitimate outdoor activities can extend overnight.
Ah the "spirit of the rules" very useful as that isn't written down and so no one can argue with your interpretation. Makes life so much easier than dealing with reality (i.e. what we are and are not allowed to do).Thank you for the steer on this.
Nowadays I try not read regulations because I want to follow the spirit of the rules, along with the 99.9% of my fellow citizens who do the same. I’ll leave overnighting until it becomes clearly permitted.
Ah the "spirit of the rules" very useful as that isn't written down and so no one can argue with your interpretation. Makes life so much easier than dealing with reality (i.e. what we are and are not allowed to do).
That is a position that seems popular with the likes of Stephen Kinnock, Ian Blackford, journalists and all the others who seem to think that they don't need to follow the letter because they are following the spirit Actually I don't entirely disagree with that but what is hypocritical is to criticise others who take a different view
As far as I know there is no published guidance that mentions overnight stays on boats.bedouin, thank you for your reply.
I follow the government’s published guidance and leave the barrack room lawyers, SPADs and other such riff-raff to pick through the statutory instruments looking for loopholes.
As far as I know there is no published guidance that mentions overnight stays on boats.
There is no need to look for loopholes in the SIs as there is nothing in there that can reasonably be interpreted as prohibiting staying on the boat.