Michigan has just prohibited the use of motorboats because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jet skis and other motorized watercraft are also banned under the state’s stay-at-home orders.
You can go out on a sailboat, a kayak, a canoe or other non-motorized vessels. (I personally am not sure where an auxiliary sailboat, if it’s proceeding under power, fits in here.)
Governor Gretchen Whitmer just updated the stay-at-home order prohibiting the use of motorized watercraft through April 30. The state’s Department of Natural Resources said that “people who use motorized watercraft typically need to procure secondary services for their craft, such as parts and gasoline, that unnecessarily increase contact with others and spread disease. The hope is that the prohibition on the use of motorized watercraft will reduce the movement of, and contact among, people with the intent of slowing the spread of the coronavirus.”
The department said that people who go out on sailboats, kayaks or canoes must use social distancing, be on their own equipment, and can only share a vessel with people in their own households.
Boating services do not necessarily qualify as critical infrastructure work under the order. Boating businesses, however, like other industries that are considered non-essential, are allowed to designate workers to conduct minimal basic operations. Read more:
https://www.woodtv.com/health/coronavirus/motorized-boats-jet-skis-not-allowed-during-order/
