NSW COVID update: Limited recreational boating permitted
by Boating Industry Association 16 Aug 2021 06:29 UTC
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BIA has this evening received new advice from NSW Maritime that boating for recreation is now permitted under specific conditions as follows:
- limited recreation with no more than one other person, if not from the same household and within the defined limit for your area from your home (five or ten kilometres)
- physical distancing and gathering rules apply at all times - including at the boat ramp and on your boat.
Other boating related activities are also permitted as follows:
- Access a vessel at a marina or on a mooring to maintain, service or check on systems and make sure it is safe and compliant (per legal obligations to do so)
- Take a vessel to a marina or boat shed for repairs or servicing
- Pick up vessel from a marina or boat shed after servicing
- Move a vessel between marinas or moorings for relocation purposes
Full information is available here.
BIA welcomes this new guidance from NSW Maritime and knows that the boating community will support this also. The boating community is acknowledged as having responded with great responsibility throughout the last several weeks and BIA knows this will continue with this new ruling in place.