Is Racing Allowed?

We all want a return to normality, but we also need to get there at a pace we can cope with.

Under the current Shielding Rules - you weren't forced to.  

Life insurance - may well vary by policy - but I can't see they will have a clause that covers it.    Not sure my life insurance which is 20 years old is prevents me taking up fags...

I suspect the racers are fine.  The safety boats, the committee boats, the mark layers etc less so.  Some have pointed out they may be an at risk group, even if not you are probably looking for same household volunteers to double man boats, or single manning.  While the RYA allows single manning, they say you should increase the number of RIBs.  So now you need ??twice as many PB2, FA, RIBs etc

Originally posted by Mozzy Perhaps they just couldn't make the event economically viable without a full bar program?

Well - not impossible.  I've  always been anti-social so that side never appetised me!  But its not just the bar, the changing rooms, the toilets, the galley.  We've been remarkably lucky so far post "unlocking" with good weather.  For club sailing - bad weather means low numbers.  For an event like that bad weather may not stop a load of people turning up for a bit of "distant" social.

If you start saying "we couldn't do it because ABC" you get people saying but "we would have done without ABC" and others saying "this is how you get round ABC" (either how to re-interpret rules or how to actually do it - like 1-man RIBs)

Everyone wants to be the club that found a way to safely carry on.  No-one wants to be the club that shared the virus with 100 other people...

Given the Con's voter demographic I doubt they'd risk it TBH.