Lockdown sailing

[Yealm]

Apparently in Sydney, sailing is allowed as a form of exercise!

 

[doug748]

AIS shows Dutch are out in force on the Ijsslemeer as well. NE 15 kts sunshine! ??

 

[NotBirdseye]

Sailing is a recognized form of exercise in the UK as well. Provided you maintain social distancing away from none household members you should be fine. The problem is public condemnation because they believe that sailing is inherently unsafe and you will inevitably need the RNLI to come and rescue you!

That's partly due to messaging and advertisement from the RNLI.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I wonder if the general public would give it much thought, although there is a vocal section of this forum that seem to consider sailing and driving as inherently risky.

Apparently the latest thing on the Twitter is to complain about couples shopping together, they say only one of you should be making the trip.

 

[fredrussell]

Sailing is a recognized form of exercise in the UK as well. Provided you maintain social distancing away from none household members you should be fine. The problem is public condemnation because they believe that sailing is inherently unsafe and you will inevitably need the RNLI to come and rescue you!

That's partly due to messaging and advertisement from the RNLI.

Well, here we go again then. Now, where’s the popcorn...

 

[cherod]

Sailing is a recognized form of exercise in the UK as well. Provided you maintain social distancing away from none household members you should be fine. The problem is public condemnation because they believe that sailing is inherently unsafe and you will inevitably need the RNLI to come and rescue you!

That's partly due to messaging and advertisement from the RNLI.

and frequently backed up by opinion on here .

 

[sailaboutvic]

Sorry guy I really lost , if as a responsible people you think it's ok to drive 30 50 100 miles to your boat to go sailing then who's stopping you ?
Comment made here don't stop you getting into your car, no more then if someone posted its going to be too windy or wet at the weekend to go sailing .
The option by most people is to stay put go only out to shop excise locally keep your distance unless your one of the EssentIel worker .

 

[NotBirdseye]

Sadly sailing falls foul of the should be in the local area (this is a fair point) and it's regarded as 'non essential exercise' (screw the fact the law says nothing about that).

Ministry of Defence police stop sailors on the water in Portsmouth Harbour amid Covid-19 lockdown

 

[RupertW]

Sadly sailing falls foul of the should be in the local area (this is a fair point) and it's regarded as 'non essential exercise' (screw the fact the law says nothing about that).

Ministry of Defence police stop sailors on the water in Portsmouth Harbour amid Covid-19 lockdown

Very pleased they stopped them. Irresponsible idiots trying to find ways to bend rules and guidelines like the potential murderers who think it’s fine to drive their families to my local park instead of sticking to walking distance. Don’t they realise that social distancing works by separating households from their neighbours, each street from the next one and each area from its next one and so on, with a bit of leakage expected at all of those fluid boundaries. The whole thing can be blown apart by someone taking their Covid three or four miles away by car to somebody else’s local woodland or park.

 

[Teko]

I was told down the marina. That a berth holder tried to leave Portsmouth harbour and the mod police gave them a £200 on the spot fine

 

[Lucky Duck]

Very pleased they stopped them. Irresponsible idiots trying to find ways to bend rules and guidelines like the potential murderers who think it’s fine to drive their families to my local park instead of stiking to walking distance. Don’t they realise that social distancing works by separating households from their neighbours, each street from the next one and each area from its next one and so on, with a bit of leakage expected at all of those fluid boundaries. The whole thing can be blown apart by someone taking their Covid three or four miles away by car to somebody else’s local woodland or park.

Rather than labelling them potential murders the police say driving in order to exercise is (within reason) acceptable

https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

 

[Lucky Duck]

I was told down the marina. That a berth holder tried to leave Portsmouth harbour and the mod police gave them a £200 on the spot fine

I thought marinas were supposed to be closed?

 

[Teko]

I thought marinas were supposed to be closed?

Cant close to liveaboards...

 

[NotBirdseye]

Very pleased they stopped them. Irresponsible idiots trying to find ways to bend rules and guidelines like the potential murderers who think it’s fine to drive their families to my local park instead of sticking to walking distance. Don’t they realise that social distancing works by separating households from their neighbours, each street from the next one and each area from its next one and so on, with a bit of leakage expected at all of those fluid boundaries. The whole thing can be blown apart by someone taking their Covid three or four miles away by car to somebody else’s local woodland or park.

There is going to be leakage, there is no way to stop it. We know that supermarkets are going to be a transmission point. It's about slowing the transmission down so that the NHS can treat early and appropriately. Thereby reducing the number of deaths and increasing survival. If we can keep reduction down enough until the vaccine then we might also prevent healthy people from getting it at all.

With that said provided the family maintains social distance from another family there is no problem. Covid does not live very long on exposed surfaces. Social distance in an outdoor setting is 4m according to recent models (about a boat length).

I thought marinas were supposed to be closed?

That's purely a suggestion and one the RYA fully support. It is not however law.

 

[[70521]]

I'm looking at the death figures for the south west of England and as at 1700 BST on Friday 17th April 2020 there were 608.

I wonder how many deaths due to flu or pneumonia happened in that time?

 

[JumbleDuck]

I wonder if the general public would give it much thought, although there is a vocal section of this forum that seem to consider sailing and driving as inherently risky.

They may be right. There are plenty of people in whose cars and boats I would rather not be a passenger.

 

[Rappey]

was told down the marina. That a berth holder tried to leave Portsmouth harbour and the mod police gave them a £200 on the spot fine

I have a view over a lot of the harbour, seen a fair few vessels transiting yet not seen a single one stopped.
Today 4 non associated people were swimming, people sat on the green admiring the view. Police wandered by and walked right past laughing at the crazyness of the swimmers but not a word said.

Right or wrong? I dare not say as too many people on here have chosen to become "the covid police" and you will be criticised either way.​

 

[JumbleDuck]

Don’t they realise that social distancing works by separating households from their neighbours, each street from the next one and each area from its next one and so on, with a bit of leakage expected at all of those fluid boundaries. The whole thing can be blown apart by someone taking their Covid three or four miles away by car to somebody else’s local woodland or park.

It doesn't really work like that. The point about social distancing is to maintain social distance, not physical distance. Your model would have been fine for the plague, but there is so much travel needed nowadays - to buy food, to work - that what really matters is a map of social interaction rather than physical proximity. It's impossible to separate "each street from the next one" so a long as you intereact with as few people as possible, wherever they are, social distancing will have its effect.

 

[Blue Sunray]

I wonder if the general public would give it much thought, although there is a vocal section of this forum that seem to consider sailing and driving as inherently risky.

Apparently the latest thing on the Twitter is to complain about couples shopping together, they say only one of you should be making the trip.

Neither new nor as unofficial as "The Twitter (sic)". Aldi, Sainsbury's and Tesco and rules on shopping as a family

 

[Lucky Duck]

So far nobody employed by the supermarkets (or anyone at all) has shown any interest in us both shopping together