Crouch HA Notice

[tillergirl]

The Crouch Harbour Authority

NOTICE TO MARINERS No 12 of 2020

INFORMATION

COVID 19 Restrictions

Recreational and Leisure Activities

With the Easter Holiday approaching we would respectfully like to remind Mariners that the Government Social Distancing Policy is still firmly in place. As a consequence, we request that owners of all recreational and leisure vessels observe the advice to avoid attending and using their vessels however tempting it may be. In doing so it will minimise the risks of adding to the already overburdened, magnificent staff manning all areas of our NHS.

Your cooperation in this matter would be much appreciated.

Captain Susan Harrison MNM
Harbour Master

9th April 2020

 

[Tomahawk]

From the regs..

Allowable reason to leave the house

1. (b) to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household;

So if your exercise is cycling or an allotment, or horse riding or runing you can enjoy your hobby. But of your exercise is sailing you re banned. And they wonder why people are not happy.

 

[nigelm]

Who’s not happy , I’m happy , all my diy is done , house all decorated and garden is in fine fettle , I’ll just sit back now and wait for the dust to settle , the boat will still be there once the yard is open again .

Just relax and take a chill pill

 

[Tomahawk]

Now here's an ofd thing.
Brightlingsea Harbour are dredging the marina at this very moment.

So how can someone be operating a vessel designed for dredging but another person cannot operate the very type of vessel the dredging is being done for?

 

[xyachtdave]

I'm with Tomahawk on this, some of us do manage to get ourselves around consistently without the assistance of the lifeboat or other mariners.

I'm currently stuck in a flat (as our long awaited house move unlikely to happen anytime soon) and exercising around St Mary's Island in Chatham is of course possible as long as you don't mind rubbing shoulders with the other 4000 residents.

I can walk out the door, drive to my boat in 5 minutes and get to my mooring without touching anything that's not mine with the exception of 1 gate. Spraying that with disinfectant and wiping with a cloth before and after use, zero risk of infection to anyone.

4 days at anchor over this weekend = zero contact with anybody outside my household.

4 days of exercising locally, avoiding the dickheads smoking spliffs/drinking beer in groups and popping to the local shop for supplies as allowed....1000's of potential interactions.

 

[ditchcrawler]

I have tried very hard not to get involved in this but there is an answer. When other people see you out on your boat they think "if he can do it
so can I " Result chaos . I know it is annoying but we owe it to everyone to be sensible and think for once not of ourselves , but others.

Stay safe.

 

[Tomahawk]

And how many people will get beaten up because they are stuck at home with an abusive partner
How many suicides?
how many marriage breakdowns?
How many cases of clinical depression?
How many bankruptcies?
How many heart attacks caused by financial stress?

And exactly how much is a weekend of people sailing and using their boats total chaos? A weekend where the lifeboat is out rescuing people from sinking yacht? In good weather!

 

[ex-Gladys]

I have tried very hard not to get involved in this but there is an answer. When other people see you out on your boat they think "if he can do it
so can I " Result chaos . I know it is annoying but we owe it to everyone to be sensible and think for once not of ourselves , but others.

Stay safe.

Or, more likely "Bloody toffs out yachting again, one rule for the rich"...

 

[Old Harry]

Now here's an ofd thing.
Brightlingsea Harbour are dredging the marina at this very moment.

So how can someone be operating a vessel designed for dredging but another person cannot operate the very type of vessel the dredging is being done for?

One get paid the other does not

 

[Tomahawk]

You are failing to take account of the fact that dredging a marina is not essential.

 

[Bru]

You are failing to take account of the fact that dredging a marina is not essential.

i agree but you're failing to take into account that at no point has the government said that non-essential work has to stop

Mixed messages being mixed up again

 

[Tomahawk]

The only work that does not carry the risk of cross contamination and accidents is working at home on a computer. For the vast majority of others there is a risk. And if the object of al this lockdown is to prevent such risk, then non essential work should stop..

 

[Bru]

The only work that does not carry the risk of cross contamination and accidents is working at home on a computer. For the vast majority of others there is a risk. And if the object of al this lockdown is to prevent such risk, then non essential work should stop..

You know full well that the objective is NOT to eliminate ALL risk.

The objective is to reduce the rate of transmission of the virus to keep the demand on health provision at ac sustainable level

To that end we are all being asked to minimise time spent outside of our homes going out only for essential reasons and at that as locally as possible

It's not hard to understand

 

[nigelm]

I think going to Brightlingsea is pretty much non essential at any time ????

 

[Triassic]

The government, and the population, need everyone to follow the regulations if we are to stand any chance of mitigating the impact of this virus. In the perfect world we would all stay indoors and it would be over in weeks, but it isn't a perfect world and some people need to get out for work and others for exercise, especially if they live in cramped conditions where it can't be done at home. I'm gobsmacked given what is on our daily news that there are still people looking for excuses to break Lockdown or trying to be imaginative about how the rules can be manipulated to suit their individual needs. If people can't tell the difference between exercise that is necessary for the maintenance of health and a recreational activity that we do for enjoyment then they really are beyond help.