In Plymouth, boating season is well underway and on board this year are state guidelines related to the corona virus pandemic.
The town’s Marine and Environmental Affairs Director, David Gould, telling the Board of Health, during their meeting last week, about Governor Baker’s harbor management guidelines.
Director David Gould talks about those guidelines and the management plan for them:
“There is some signage going up at the boat ramp about getting on your boat: who should be in the party, immediate family only, limiting the gatherings. There should be no rafting up of boats, even when they’re on the water. So, shouldn’t have, you know, four or five boats rafting up together with members from four or five different house-holds in close proximity.”
Gould says there will be challenges…
“Certainly, one of the challenges is going to be things like Brown’s Bank obviously, making sure that if people are putting their boats up there they’re doing it not in close proximity to each other and that they’re spreading out.
The state recreational boating regulations specify that only persons from the same household should be together on a boat at onetime, and that no gathering or groups of person from multiple households will be permitted on boat ramps, docks or piers and that all users practice strict social distancing.
For more information about the state’s guidance, go to Plymouth-ma.gov/harbormaster, and look under News and Announcements on the right side of the screen.
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