RYA Rules 20/12/2020

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Updated rules.
Sailing clubs boat parks and marinas can open.
You can only travel a short distance within your tier 4 area to exercise if necessary.
All forms of informal or self-organised recreational boating are permitted within the legal limits for meeting others.

No change regards the UK boating community. ?
 
oldgit said:
Not according to the RYA.
Do wish everyone sang from the same hymn sheet ?
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The RYA say
''Sailing club boat parks and marinas can open for individual exercise, and for people to use with others within their household, support bubble, or with one person from another household. However, you should consider the associated risks very carefully''

and the RYA also say

''You must stay at home, other than for legally permitted reasons. These include exercise, open air recreation, work, sport for educational purposes, organised outdoor sports gathering for persons who have a disability and under 18s. If you need to travel you should stay local''.

and

You cannot stay overnight away from your main home

https://www.rya.org.uk/SiteCollecti... on what is possible in each English tier.pdf

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Usual degree of wriggle room with the Govt apparently relying upon overstating what the restrictions are to discourage non-compliance as opposed to putting it all in legislation.

‘Stay at home‘ is legislation but caveated with ‘reasonable excuse’ for being out and a list of what that includes, but which is not exhaustive and ultimately it would be an objective matter for a court to decide if the excuse was reasonable. Perhaps a moot point as Police powers enable an officer who ‘considers’ that a person is outside the place where they are living’ in contravention of the restriction on movement to ‘direct that person to return to the place where they are living’. Quite broad powers and not subject to consideration by a court i.e. whilst an excuse might well be successfully argued at court to be reasonable, if the officer doesn’t consider it reasonable non-compliance with their direction would be an offence.

No reference to travel in the regulations and as previously it is guidance. ‘Essential travel’ has never existed in regulations as far as I am aware.

Quite where that leaves us boaters is with a degree of uncertainty.....again!

The EA and Broads Authority have pronounced on what they think and the RYA have published their guidance, but consistency doesn’t appear to be a theme. Working on boats is a ‘no no’ according to the BA but according to guidance somewhere (comes from a fellow boater who cited it but I don’t know the source) it is okay if you cycle to your boat! The nonsensical nature of this sounds about right though! ;)

Last lockdown, despite living local and coming into contact with no one if I went to the boat, I played ball and didn’t work on the boat (despite having a lot to do in a mini-refit) only to be told by the marina, when lockdown was lifted, that they had been advised that working on boats had been okay! Grrrr...
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