Staying the night on board your boat

[Momac]

The rules are not written with boat owners in mind.
No overnight staying is a rule to prevent significant numbers of people occupying their holiday home/ caravan/camping which would then risk increased infection rates and demand on local hospitals that are not specifically sized to deal with more than the full time residents population.

Unfortunately some people are taking a step too far and there has been socialising on boats , boats rafting up. People who have tried to remain relatively isolated on their own boat have been made to feel uncomfortable by declining requests to raft up.
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[Assassin]

Well put, what gets my goat are the people in supermarkets etc who have no regard for the distancing guidelines
Agree or not, they are in place for a reason

Don't go there very often, but I threatened to adapt a cattle prod to exactly 2M and prod anyone who walked into range.

 

[Hooligan]

BTW and perhaps a slight thread drift, getting a test for C 19 in the UK is easy and very efficient. My Mother was repatriated after 3 months caught overseas the other day. With an underlying heart issue she is quite exposed to risk. As I wanted to take her back home rather than her getting public transport or a taxi where she wouldn't know the driver, I looked at whether I could get a test and how. I have no symptoms but one of our children who volunteered to clean the local hospital got it - confirmed ex post by an anti body test - and never knew she had it. Given we all live together ie everyone had the highest degree of exposure to someone with the virus, i thought best to be safe. Anyway to cut a long story short I booked the test online. Took 10 mins max. Found a test site near home - there are lots of these sites, all underutilised Arrived 30 mins earlier than my time slot. No one else there getting tested so went straight through, got the swab test and then the (negative) result 24 hours later. Picked up Mum later same day without worry that I may give the virus to her. My conclusions: plenty of testing capacity is available; everyone with any sort of symptom should be getting tested, it is easy and efficient; we had a asymptomatic child living in the house with us - 8 in the household - and no one else has gotten the virus, ergo this doesn't spread like a plague. The 2m rule is I believe medical nonsense, along with the latest quarantining IMHO as the chances of anyone getting this by walking past anyone within 2 m seems beyond remote. we need to get people tested who need to be for whatever reason and there is plenty of capacity so to do and the media has been shockingly negative about our capabilities and turnaround. We need a more positive message.

 

[Portofino]

^^^ My mother (87 and healthy- still drives etc ) went , arrived 3.30 pm in her own car .
Phone call 9.45 next morning with the -ve result.
So that does not tally with media reports .

I understand there was a glitch about a month ago in one of the new labs ....buts fair enough doing this kinda stuff on this scale is , or was all new .

 

[colhel]

Having seen the very people we're trying to protect wandering around garden centres (not Waitrose obviously, we've got an army of volunteers to that), then you got the fat lumpson the seafront who only remove their face masks to smoke a fag. We've destroyed our economy and personal finances to protect these people, and I'm called selfish for spending a night in my boat?

 

[jon and michie]

Having seen the very people we're trying to protect wandering around garden centres (not Waitrose obviously, we've got an army of volunteers to that), then you got the fat lumpson the seafront who only remove their face masks to smoke a fag. We've destroyed our economy and personal finances to protect these people, and I'm called selfish for spending a night in my boat?

Well said - pity they can't fly back to benidorm.
This virus in my opinion was created to kull the population - pity they couldn't modify it to attack the chavs and oxygen thieves of society

 

[nicho]

Is there actually any evidence to show Marinas are policing this? I reckon they all turn a blind eye rather than p1ss off their customers. After all, they have a myriad of their ways to do that,

 

[BabySharkDooDooDooDooDoo]

I heard reports that Essex police were doing so but they marine division was based at the marina concerned.

A friend spent a night on board without being disturbed but he kept a low profile and didn't have any loud cockpit parties onto the small hours...

He also noticed several boats who left on Saturday didn't return until Sunday afternoon

 

[colhel]

Is there actually any evidence to show Marinas are policing this? I reckon they all turn a blind eye rather than p1ss off their customers. After all, they have a myriad of their ways to do that,

I personally don't think it's fair to put the marina staff in such a position, hence I leave on Saturday and return Sunday