Boating During Lockdown?

Hallberg-Rassy said:
Dug up, hanged, and thrown on a dung heap; regime overthrown.
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I bet that ruined his whole day seeing as how he was dead by then, can you be overthrown after you're dead? Still not sure what posthumous exhumation had got to do with the matter in hand though, something like flogging a dead horse possibly?
 
The restrictions this time are different to in March partly because a lot more is known now about how the virus spreads. While no-one is saying it is safe to touch contaminated surfaces, they are now saying it is highly unlikely to cause an infection. So is being outdoors, with distancing. I have read that not one case has been shown to have been transmitted by anything except person to person contact or breathing shared air.

I don't know if it is true but I tried and failed to find any cases that disproved it. So children's play areas, recycling centres, garden centres are all staying open this time. The National Trust is not shutting its outdoor properties. Obviously most customers will be driving to access them.

We are being encouraged to go out, get unlimited exercise, stay fit physically and mentally. It's good for our immune systems.
 
Sandydog2 said:
The restrictions this time are different to in March partly because a lot more is known now about how the virus spreads. While no-one is saying it is safe to touch contaminated surfaces, they are now saying it is highly unlikely to cause an infection. So is being outdoors, with distancing. I have read that not one case has been shown to have been transmitted by anything except person to person contact or breathing shared air.

I don't know if it is true but I tried and failed to find any cases that disproved it. So children's play areas, recycling centres, garden centres are all staying open this time. The National Trust is not shutting its outdoor properties. Obviously most customers will be driving to access them.

We are being encouraged to go out, get unlimited exercise, stay fit physically and mentally. It's good for our immune systems.
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Good spot about the NT, having visited a couple of their properties in May and June there might be grounds for optimism!

Edit - perhaps those on this thread saying we should abandon the season think we can save the day by going to a castle or stately home instead and visiting their cafe while we are there?
 
Sandydog2 said:
The restrictions this time are different to in March partly because a lot more is known now about how the virus spreads. While no-one is saying it is safe to touch contaminated surfaces, they are now saying it is highly unlikely to cause an infection. So is being outdoors, with distancing. I have read that not one case has been shown to have been transmitted by anything except person to person contact or breathing shared air.

I don't know if it is true but I tried and failed to find any cases that disproved it. So children's play areas, recycling centres, garden centres are all staying open this time. The National Trust is not shutting its outdoor properties. Obviously most customers will be driving to access them.

We are being encouraged to go out, get unlimited exercise, stay fit physically and mentally. It's good for our immune systems.
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Any idea where? I do know that my local school is quarantining any equipment used in science lessons for 72 hours before it can be used by another 'bubble'.

http://science.cleapss.org.uk/Resou...work-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-Science.pdf

To add to your NT point, RHS gardens also seem to be staying open at the moment.
 
Blue Sunray said:
Still not sure what posthumous exhumation had got to do with the matter in hand though
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It's a metaphor for being shown the maximum disrespect for having forced such inequties and unreasonable lmitations on people's self-expression.

For the lack of any viable alternative, I don't suspect Boris will be treated so cruelly at the next general election for his bumbling and ball dropping as he deserves (were we some Latin-American nation, I'd say someone'd be taking him, Nige & Dom out to shoot them), however, I suspect this time around Labour will be quietly grateful if they don't win and, hence, won't face having to balance the books after this debacle.
 
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Hallberg-Rassy said:
It's a metaphor for being shown the maximum disrespect for having forced such inequties and unreasonable lmitations on people's self-expression.

For the lack of any viable alternative, I don't suspect Boris will be treated so cruelly at the next general election for his bumbling and ball dropping as he deserves (were we some Latin-American nation, I'd say someone'd be taking him, Nige & Dom out to shoot them), however, I suspect this time around Labour will be quietly grateful if they don't win and, hence, won't face having to balance the books after this debacle.
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Well I suppose you have to be credited for a vivid, if slightly odd, imagination.
 
Yacht maintenance not 'essential activity' during second COVID-19 lockdown - Yachting Monthly


" Boat owners will not be allowed to visit their yachts for maintenance or winterisation "

" sailing is allowed as part of an outdoor exercise regime either alone, with one other person, or within your household or bubble. "

Not v clear but perhaps understandably so given the pace of change. Perhaps.

Ill pop down to check the lines maybe once. Might go for a sail if nice but we shall see.

Its all a bit odd because I'm a teacher and spend every day with a successive groups of 30 students.
 
stu9000 said:
Yacht maintenance not 'essential activity' during second COVID-19 lockdown - Yachting Monthly
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Moronic stupidity.

a) Didn't anyone tell them it's not really possible to go sailing without some maintenance, especially of wooden boats, and

b) "DEFRA has confirmed that under PART 4 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020, a member of the public can pay a business to maintain their boat on their behalf during the lockdown."

So, you can't do it yourself, but you can pay someone else to do it?

Explain that logic? It's OK to have lowly paid working class tradesmen killed off but middle class boat owners have to stay at home?

As I wrote early, I lease my boat to you for £1, then you pay me £1 to maintain it for you. Or I do yours and you do mine, then we're both trades-people.

Why? I went out to shopping yesterday and the market streets and parks were busier than an average Summer's day. Everyone's on holiday.
 
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