CV19 restrictions on boat on private mooring

[jordanbasset]

Pretty well every caravan site in the U.K. is shut from today. There’s a lot of friction about it on the Caravan Club Facebook page, some reacting badly, while most have been lobbying the Clubs to shut sites for some time. Finally they bent to the pressure.

Not sure that is correct, we have 3 caravan parks within 15 miles of where we live, all of them privately run and all of them still taking bookings on their websites. If the Government think it is in the interest of public health such sites (and marinas for that matter) should be shut down then they should be by law, other wise private greed/selfishness will often overcome public good

 

[Graham376]

It seems some of the north Wales caravan sites have closed which can only be good. Between Abergele and Rhyl, there are several thousand static caravans with an influx of owners from Manchester, Liverpool and surrounding areas every weekend. I'm hoping when we arrive home (all being well on Tuesday) they will all be closed.

 

[sailaboutvic]

There one thing for sure , if back in the uK you do end up with a lock down ( maybe I should had said when and not if )
You lot won't get bored, you argue the right and wrong of the lock down till the sun comes down .
To tho who talk about isolating your self on a boat at anchor or on a swinging moor as marina will be close. And you won't be able to drive back and fro once it happen , you have no idea what your in for, I can tell you now it's nothing like you can imagine.

 

[Kelpie]

On a boat a fishing rod in the right location can do the trick. Add some kelp (of the proper type) to that for vegtables and you can survive. Water comes from rain or evaporated sea water. Scotland and rain is a pretty good combination. If you think survival scratch the idea of a store to help you out. There is plenty survival info available on the internet for all sorts of environments. An be prepared to lose a few pounds of weight. It's not a luxury cruise.

Best of luck with that. I'm sure your mackerel sushi and raw kelp will taste lovely once your gas has run out.

For me, running away on the boat became impossible as of today. It's on a different island and the ferries are now closed to non-essential travel. I feel safer at home with my tattie patch anyway.

 

[sailaboutvic]

Best of luck with that. I'm sure your mackerel sushi and raw kelp will taste lovely once your gas has run out.

For me, running away on the boat became impossible as of today. It's on a different island and the ferries are now closed to non-essential travel. I feel safer at home with my tattie patch anyway.

After 10 years as a full time cruiser and enjoying every min of every day even the days went we at anchored with 60 kts of wind ,
After 11 days of lock down , If anyone said to me to day would you rather be in a house isolated then on a boat isolated I know what one I pick . The most excise we get is walking to the showers and toilet,
what I would give to have a garden to walk around and grass to cut five or six rooms to walk around .
A big fridge and freezer to stock and not have to worry if this dreadful virus hit one of us we stuck in just a few sq meters of space with very little help
Anyone want to swap till it's over your welcome.

 

[PHN]

Best of luck with that. I'm sure your mackerel sushi and raw kelp will taste lovely once your gas has run out.

For me, running away on the boat became impossible as of today. It's on a different island and the ferries are now closed to non-essential travel. I feel safer at home with my tattie patch anyway.

I didn't mention "gas". You are on your own, so you need other resources for fire ... like the dried non eatable parts of kelp or other dried floating debris. I mean true survival ... and don't set fire to your boat in the process.

Not my choice by the way, but we have a few people in this topic speculating about surving the virus on their boat. That is how it can be done.

 

[Graham376]

There one thing for sure , if back in the uK you do end up with a lock down ( maybe I should had said when and not if )
You lot won't get bored, you argue the right and wrong of the lock down till the sun comes down .

From what I see of UK TV news, compared to here life seems pretty normal for many folks.

 

[PHN]

After 10 years as a full time cruiser and enjoying every min of every day even the days went we at anchored with 60 kts of wind ,
After 11 days of lock down , If anyone said to me to day would you rather be in a house isolated then on a boat isolated I know what one I pick . The most excise we get is walking to the showers and toilet,
what I would give to have a garden to walk around and grass to cut five or six rooms to walk around .
A big fridge and freezer to stock and not have to worry if this dreadful virus hit one of us we stuck in just a few sq meters of space with very little help
Anyone want to swap till it's over your welcome.

Crossing the ocean takes more than 11 days on a sailing boat with only walking to showers and toilet ...

 

[JumbleDuck]

If most folk act with common sense, in the spirit of the rules, all will be as well as might be.

Amen to that.

 

[sailaboutvic]

Crossing the ocean takes more than 11 days on a sailing boat with only walking to showers and toilet ...

You know there going to be a end in a few more days when crossing a ocean ,
we have no idea how long this is going to last no matter what some think like to think.

 

[sailaboutvic]

From what I see of UK TV news, compared to here life seems pretty normal for many folks.

I agree and this is why people here have no idea what life can be if they don't toe the line.
If you listen to the PM statement he slowly preparing people for the lock down .

 

[Blue Sunray]

A small but sizeable enough proportion of people are so bloody stupid!!!

For example those who regard "anodes, seacocks, etc" on a boat currently ashore as essential jobs, thus exempting them from the request/advice to avoid any unnecessary travel?

 

[xyachtdave]

Can you imagine

For example those who regard "anodes, seacocks, etc" on a boat currently ashore as essential jobs, thus exempting them from the request/advice to avoid any unnecessary travel?

There is a difference between quietly working on your boat in a deserted boatyard and queueing to buy beers with 500 other people from the 'takeaway' pub in Whitstable or joining the masses in the supermarkets.

 

[Blue Sunray]

There is a difference between quietly working on your boat in a deserted boatyard and queueing to buy beers with 500 other people from the 'takeaway' pub in Whitstable or joining the masses in the supermarkets.

The problem with explaining a relatively complex, dynamic and carefully nuanced public health strategy to the public, is that a significant number of them are so thick they just can’t understand it.

Here I've typed it slowly and emboldened it:

Johnson said people should also stop all unnecessary travel

Read more: Coronavirus: People in the UK must avoid unnecessary social contact

 

[doug748]

The problem with explaining a relatively complex, dynamic and carefully nuanced public health strategy to the public, is that a significant number of them are so thick they just can’t understand it.

Here I've typed it slowly and emboldened it:

Johnson said people should also stop all unnecessary travel

Read more: Coronavirus: People in the UK must avoid unnecessary social contact

The magic is in the word necessary.
Babylon had some business on his boat and he had to travel to do it - I'm guessing he took sensible precautions and is unlikely to harm anyone. Certainly no more than necessary local shopping or shitting the dog.

It is quite different to a SUV load of snotty nosed kids taken on a day out to sun themselves in Southend, the better to mingle with hoards of others similar.

It is the latter that will prompt Uncle Boris to flick the switch.

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[Babylon]

Thank you BS.

As it happens, the whole three-hour round-trip took place entirely within my car - from my own driveway in a small rural village to under the bows of my own boat and back again. The only relatively close contact I had with anyone was in purchasing the anode from the on-site chandlers: the manager was wearing gloves and I was wearing gloves (which I disposed of afterwards) and we both stood back as the other handled the card-machine, which (as I mentioned previously) was sprayed with disinfectant between transactions; I disposed of the gloves afterwards and donned a fresh pair. I also took care to top up my tank with a spare 10l of fuel before leaving home so I wouldn't have to stop at any services, and I carry in my car a washing-up liquid bottle filled with water dosed with bleach to clean down my hands and any other items if necessary._

There was indeed nothing "essential" to the bare minimum of life in my choosing to drive to spend half a day in a very quiet boatyard. However, as everyone is well aware, where I used the term "essential" it was in reference to the bare minimum I needed to do to my hull (prop anode, hull anode, rudder anode, and Blakes seacocks) so that my boat - if it gets relaunched at all before the anticipated lockdown - is safe on its mooring for a completely unknowable duration.

 

[PHN]

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This can be considered criminal negligence. Personally I would have reported that lady to the police to have here arrested.

Then there is the question if she did yes or no contaminate the entire area.

 

[DJE]

We're due to launch in about a month but I really can't justify the dozen or so trips to the yard that it would take to get the boat ready. And to be honest once movement restrictions are tightened and I can't visit the boat I'd prefer that she was ashore. It's going to be a short season if we get one at all.

 

[westhinder]

We're due to launch in about a month but I really can't justify the dozen or so trips to the yard that it would take to get the boat ready. And to be honest once movement restrictions are tightened and I can't visit the boat I'd prefer that she was ashore. It's going to be a short season if we get one at all.

Absolutely agree. I could drive from my driveway to the boat without coming into contact with anyone and I could work all day on my boat in total isolation. Still I felt I could not justify doing so, the more so as in my day job I am constantly passing on the messages about the corona-virus. In the greater scheme of things travelling to and from a boat is not essential, however much you try to rationalise it away.
Our authorities have taken the next step and have posted police at the motorway exits leading to coastal towns. Anyone who does not have a valid reason is turned away. The UK is lagging behind by a week or so in its response, but there is no doubt your authorities will have to go down the same route. It is all very well to talk about Britons being individualists and champions of personal liberty, the French and the Belgians are equally unruly individuals, but we bow to the inevitable and soldier on, as undoubtedly you will have to.

 

[Graham376]

We're due to launch in about a month but I really can't justify the dozen or so trips to the yard that it would take to get the boat ready. And to be honest once movement restrictions are tightened and I can't visit the boat I'd prefer that she was ashore. It's going to be a short season if we get one at all.

I think you made the correct decision. We could have launched last week but if the mooring failed or something else went wrong then no-one would be around to sort it. Decided to leave it in the yard which is a bit annoying as the mooring is free but, it's safer.