geem
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You would not believe how hard it is to sail home! We arrived In Cork today from the Azores. Due to the stupidity of the UK law on bringing dogs in to the country, we have to sail to Ireland first before we can sail to the UK. Once the dogs are cleared in to Ireland we can sail on.
We are now sat on a visitors pontoon at the RCYC. We arent allowed off the boat. We have to do a 14 day quarantine even though we have been at sea for 9 days, we had a negative CO19 test in Azores and the Azores has no CO19 cases.
So we leave tomorrow morning for Northern England. The weather looks ropey on Friday so plan to tuck in to Holyhead, but are we allowed? Wales still closed to boating?
We did plan to go to Fleetwood marina for a couple of weeks but they are refusing us entry because we are a boat returning from abroad!! They also say that we cant stay on the boat over night! We would just need one night so we can hire a van to empty the boat and drive home, but no the rules say no overnight on a boat! Its our home at the moment and will stay our home until we move off it back on to land.
So the plan is to sail to Glasson Dock. We only get one weather window due to our draft. 5th July. Next window is 21st July. Lets hope they let us in!
We are now sat on a visitors pontoon at the RCYC. We arent allowed off the boat. We have to do a 14 day quarantine even though we have been at sea for 9 days, we had a negative CO19 test in Azores and the Azores has no CO19 cases.
So we leave tomorrow morning for Northern England. The weather looks ropey on Friday so plan to tuck in to Holyhead, but are we allowed? Wales still closed to boating?
We did plan to go to Fleetwood marina for a couple of weeks but they are refusing us entry because we are a boat returning from abroad!! They also say that we cant stay on the boat over night! We would just need one night so we can hire a van to empty the boat and drive home, but no the rules say no overnight on a boat! Its our home at the moment and will stay our home until we move off it back on to land.
So the plan is to sail to Glasson Dock. We only get one weather window due to our draft. 5th July. Next window is 21st July. Lets hope they let us in!