New (11/06) CoVid regulations for boats.

[dom]

You could always suffer from a bout of migraine, brought on by all the hard work preparing the boat for the season and rendering you unfit for driving home (in my case 150 miles). Would be dangerous to attempt the journey.

Not necessarily; you must check your eyesight by tossing a handy 4-year old into your back seat and doing a 30-mile test drive. Preferably with a break at a local beauty spot.

Edit: be aware that under their new powers the police can at any point spot check your ability to spontaneously lie.

 

[SimonFa]

Looking forward to doing some more hill walking in the Brecon Beacons this summer...maybe?!

One of my favourite hiking locations and also where my wife enjoys plein air painting, so we're both happy when we're out in the motorhome. Although we're both taken with the Pembrokeshire coast.

As Wales is closed and we can't use the motorhome anyway I'll have to stick to hiking round here.

 

[st599]

Rumour is campsites will open early July so it will have to go then.

Took them 2 weeks from the last set of announcements to draft and publish these.

So It may be that campsites open but it takes a while to get down the list to sailing.

 

[Babylon]

One of my favourite hiking locations and also where my wife enjoys plein air painting, so we're both happy when we're out in the motorhome. Although we're both taken with the Pembrokeshire coast.

As Wales is closed and we can't use the motorhome anyway I'll have to stick to hiking round here.

I had a great day-walk on the Mid Wiltshire Way a couple of days ago. Will I be allowed to walk/camp on the Pennine Way (with a fit porter of course!) this summer?

 

[Elessar]

I had a great day-walk on the Mid Wiltshire Way a couple of days ago. Will I be allowed to walk/camp on the Pennine Way (with a fit porter of course!) this summer?

Is it safe to do so? Your call. What else matters?

 

[Iliade]

As I see it, I could sail into international waters then immediately return to the coast. That way I would be legally obliged to spend the next fourteen days self-isolating on the boat :0)

 

[DJE]

You really ought to see Newtown Creek this evening. Packed solid!

Poked our nose in and moved on elsewhere.

 

[Carib]

Took them 2 weeks from the last set of announcements to draft and publish these.

So It may be that campsites open but it takes a while to get down the list to sailing.

It doesn't really work like that. The only thing stopping you from overnighting is a general regulation that you cannot stay overnight away from your main home. Presumably once campsites are open that rule has to go completely - it's not as if we need someone to specifically say 'you can now stay overnight on a boat'.

 

[atol]

meanvhile in china,
The new normal?

Beijing goes into 'wartime mode' and locks down after a spike in coronavirus cases emerge at a wholesale market.

A district in Beijing discovered a cluster of novel coronavirus cases tied to a major wholesale market this week and said it was going into "wartime emergency mode."

Out of 517 people tested at the Xinfadi wholesale market in the southwest district of Fengtai, 45 tested positive but were not showing symptoms, according to Beijing's Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The spike in infections has prompted the capital to immediately ban inter-province tourism, shut schools, and suspend sports events.

Chinese authorities are on high alert to new clusters of the virus emerging.

"We would like to warn everyone not to drop their guard even for a second in epidemic prevention control: we must be prepared for a prolonged fight with the virus." "We have to stay alert to the risks of imported cases and to the fact that epidemic control in our city is complicated and serious, and will be here for a long time,"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/beijing-g...093035716.html

 

[Ningaloo]

You really ought to see Newtown Creek this evening. Packed solid!

Poked our nose in and moved on elsewhere.

I would never normally attempt Newtown at the weekend. My 2m draft limits my options. But I naively imagined it might be less crowded tonight. Not so. We are anchored outside enjoying a beautiful evening.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I assume there isn't that many places people can go otherwise.

The river opposite is supposed to be closed but I don't know if they are stopping people picking up moorings

 

[DJE]

I assume there isn't that many places people can go otherwise.

The river opposite is supposed to be closed but I don't know if they are stopping people picking up moorings

Beaulieu? Well the moorings are still there and they haven't put a chain across the entrance!

 

[Lucky Duck]

I did wonder if they would send one of their dorys round to ask people to move on

 

[Just_sayin']

I would never normally attempt Newtown at the weekend. My 2m draft limits my options. But I naively imagined it might be less crowded tonight. Not so. We are anchored outside enjoying a beautiful evening.

So you are ?

 

[Seven Spades]

Have you considered anchoring in Langston Harbour?

 

[dunedin]

I didn’t realise that many Solent based boats knew how to use their anchors ! Amazing what skills are learnt in a crisis

 

[Babylon]

Cheap shot, old chap... but you get a 'like' for being quick off the mark! ?

Anyway, I expect we'll be back to relatively normal cruising well before Nichola let's you lot out to play...

 

[DJE]

I did wonder if they would send one of their dorys round to ask people to move on

I understand that - should you be on a visitor's mooring at about 09:00 - a man in a dory does come round. And he says, "That will be a short stay then sir as we're closed to overnight visitors. £10 please." Payment is by cash into a bucket on the end of a boat hook.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Thanks for that, the last time I looked their website said they were shut to all visitors.

 

[Ningaloo]

anchoring

I have never anchored in Langstone. I believe I visited Southsea Marina when I was based in Chichester but that was over 16 years ago.
Any recommended anchorages for 2m keel?

I am off Pilsea Island tonight. Brings back memories of learning to sail at Connor Point in the 70's.