There is a difference tho , you know when a onean crossing going to end ,
Good luck and safe trip , keep in touch .
Haha, there is likely to be a lot of twitching then! We know several boats planning the same trip. There are likely to be 100s of boats crossing to Europe.
That's life Graham we all want what someone else got .
That's life Graham we all want what someone else got .
I guess being stuck in a small flat isn't much fun.
But at less you can still get out and walk about , although I not sure it going to be much fun if you end up with a full lock down.
But living in a house with a garden to sit in , grass to cut and some weeding to do during this time of lock down , that will do me even tho am no gardener.
Our boat is slightly bigger then yours at just under 13mts but there no room to move around inside a couple of metres and your in one of the bunks .
Climb up the companion steps into the cockpit , one stride and you walked into the wheel ,
So its into the cockpit and sit .
Only excise I had for the last three days is walking to the toilet.
Our marina is enclose to some extend although the pubic can still walk around the out side , most of the gaps have now been sealed with wire fence to stop them getting in .
The police drive through the barrier three or so a day to check what's going on ,
Even walking around the pontoon you could be stopped . No one rides there bikes around any more .
The super market is just out side the marina but just going there everyone carries their paper to say where there are going. We been stop even tho we pushing a shopping trolley.
A few people have got cars but they can only go on there own , being stop with two in a car is a fine , plus there no where to go any how.
One got a telling off for going to lidi when there a super market next to the marina he was lucky he wasnt fined .
One boat as a sailing dinghy but dare not use it incase the police pulls them .
One newbie to cruising want to practise berthing on the empty pontoon there where told to stop.
I know it all depend on where you are and what the local police will aloud , two lots of cruisers friends in different parts of Spain both said they not aloud to step off their boats unless there are going to the shop not even to stretch their legs at less we can as Long as we keep it low key around the marina .
The only way we found of taken a longer walk in the town is carry a empty medic tablet box and say you looking for a chemist if your stopped.
Most are dreading what it's going to be like if we still here in the heat of the summer ,
It's not going to be comfortable for sure.
My sympathy to those in the Caribbean with Hurricane season on the horizon You really are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Would you Graham sit it out there knowing that can’t move to say Trinidad or Grenada or any of the safe island because they are all in lockdown? It strikes me the only sensible choice is to head back to Uk once the window for this passage opens upSod off, stay there and keep the virus to yourselves, we have enough here
There are many who plain sail back but there also many more making other plain knowing sailing back to Europe may not be I now there best interest.
Cannot be sure, but the Foreign Office is chartering flights to bring back (some) stranded tourists. Returning yachtsmen could be a similar category, but with the added safety factor that if you can show that you have been at sea for at least three weeks and have no symptoms you should be clear of the virus.What makes you so sure that the UK will accept an influx of boats
I have friends who got stuck in the Bahamas, theyre on day 6 of a trip back to UK. They felt increasingly unwelcome and left early. Given the way things are unfolding in the US I'd likely have done the same