Despite the confinement, practicing physical activity within a radius of 1 km from home is allowed for one hour. When you live in a house or an apartment, it is therefore possible to go running or walking, for example, nearby, alone or in pairs. On the other hand, when you live on a boat at anchor, it becomes more complicated: the yachtsman must take his dinghy or dinghy and go to play sports on dry land. He is in fact not authorized to swim due to the decree of the Collectivity taken on March 20 prohibiting swimming on the beaches * and that of the Prefect of Guadeloupe published a few days earlier "closing swimming in fresh and sea water»In the municipalities of Guadeloupe and in the COM of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth.
Tickets of 135 euros were thus drawn up by gendarmes of the nautical brigade to boaters who swam around their sailboat. "It's ridiculous ! We are no more dangerous than an “earthling” who is going to run along the road! ", protested a boat owner.
«When you live on earth, you can go to sports with your wife or husband. But when you live on a boat you can't… A few days ago, our friends left in a dinghy to go for a walk and we told them that they weren't allowed to be two in the dinghy! They were fined 135 euros! Why is there a difference in treatment between a couple who live on a boat and one who lives in a house? », Reports a boater.
«Here we are talking about leisure, but what when you need to make repairs on your engine or clean the hull? We have to be in the water. Can we still go there?», He continues to wonder. He also does not hide his concern about security. "Are there police patrols at night on the waterways? Because we know that we can be held up at night when we sleep He adds.
Finally, another COM decree prohibits all nautical and pleasure activities on water bodies, "this means that we do not have the right to be on the water. But we have to be there to go shopping. So we are outlaw! ", comments another yachtsman.
* In Saint-Martin, the management of beaches and territorial waters is a competence of the COM and not of the State, hence a COM decree to prohibit swimming on the beaches.
(soualigapost.com)
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