I suspect that all the non original top-hamper is coming off. I would imagine that for her to pass through Gt Yarmouth {Peel Ports) that she has to be insured. She was once a sea-going ship so, theoretically, she could be again.
If I read the EDP article correctly then she is being assessed before being allowed through Gt Yarmouth. Through meaning her going to sea and leaving the Broads?
With the present unknowns of the Corona Virus pandemic I suspect that some of you may be prevented from visiting your boats. If I am able and not knocked for six by the bug myself and your boat is in or around Oulton Broad then don't hesitate in demanding help, even if it is just me walking past to see that no one has nicked it or is claiming squatters rights. I can even check to see that the waterline is still above water or I can let the cat out for a run, just ask.
Apparently you were spotted last year, on your mobile, phoning the tolls office just as your boat's keel touched the water! Now that is cutting it fine!
I should think the likelihood is pretty much as near to nil as you are likely to get. Yes, the pubs might be closed but how many fifty berth boats are there on the Broads? Provided you are well then head for the Broads!! Just hope that those onboard the week before were virus free!
I have two 'residential homes for the elderly' as near neighbours, both of which have today gone into lock-down, no one in and no one out, not even the relatives of inmates. Have spoken to one of the proprietors, very worried people. Clearly the potential for the virus to quickly circulate among both staff and clients is very real and potentially devastating. My wife and I visit one of the homes and I'm afraid that we shall lose some old friends in the coming months.
I remember many years ago one of the guys in the yard turning wire nails into a coil using a brace & bit and a vice, Why he was doing it I have absolutely no idea!
Especially young ladies with well defined sheer, both fore and aft, and preferably broad in the beam with firm futtocks!
Was an ancient regular at Oulton Broad's Commodore, name of Decko, always reckoned my girl friend's mini skirts were only just below sea level, if you know what he meant!
In at least one of my local hospitals the worry relates to a probable shortage of doctors. Doctors, just as are nurses, carers, cleaners etc (and their families) are all likely to go down with the virus at some point.
I would never have thought of bulk-buying frying oil! Apparently sales of chest freezers is soaring, which explains why one gentleman was struggling across my local Lidle car-park on Friday with a large trolley piled high with frozen meat, he must have cleared several shelves, all to himself, greedy sod!
Inevitably I fear that any approved houseboats will only be available to very well heeled folk. Personally I would like to see a few flooded marshes with community, floating home projects for those on a budget. It could so easily have happened at Jenner's Basin/Thorpe Island.