Is Racing Allowed?

With all due respect, that isn't the question. The question is "is it ALLOWED"

Originally posted by getafix Dinghies should be crewed by same household sailors (easy in single handers)

No-one is disputing that.

Originally posted by getafix Trolleys can be pulled away once boats are launched and sailing away

So thats your first risk. You are now handling something someone else handled.

Originally posted by getafix   Marks can be laid and picked back up by rescue boats (or left out there depending on the water)

Fixed marks are fine. World Sailing have some virtual mark rules too (not really for dinghy sailing). 

Mark laying single handed on a RIB is not impossible, but can be hard work. Depends on size of marks, weight of the weight, anchor, sea conditions etc.

Originally posted by getafix   One person can be in the race box, the others outside doing flags/recording times/using radio

Yes. See no problem with that for club racing.  Once you get to major events you need more bodies (more eyes)

Originally posted by getafix   Rescue boats can be launched by groups, as long as people stay 2m apart, that's going to be OK on all but steep ramps with big boats, perhaps use a winch from a vehicle if you have real issues in recovering or launching with limited numbers?

Launching a RIB can be done single handed if necessary.  Plenty of single owners of RIBs manage it.  Most RIBs are 2m wide.  If you need bodies involved - one each side will be spaced.

Its not launching that causes the concern.  It is manning the RIB.  A 5m RIB with a central console makes distancing difficult.  

Originally posted by getafix   Drowning will actually kill as will extreme hypothermia, right there and then, at least if you catch Covid you get a chance of a save at a hospital - so launch a rescue boat or two - IMO it's far lower risk than going to your local supermarket or getting involved in a protest march.  The numbers involved in sailing are going to be far less than those caught on video this weekend in London and Bristol.

I don't disagree.  There are plenty of clubs who pay rescue staff. Are they choosing to participate?

We allowed people to choose to not go to the pub the weekend before lockdown - the majority chose to go.  The risk isn't the fit sailor. Its the elderly relative they might infect. The ITU bed they occupy that means the cancer patient can't be treated.  I don't understand the protests.  Supermarkets - are necessary to buy food to survive. I've yet to find someone who has died because they couldn't race.

Originally posted by getafix   OK, I accept that in an extremely unlikely scenario someone on the rescue boat may have to do 1st aid and that potentially includes CPR, which would then lead to isolation for all involved until risks can be said to have passed, I believe that's 10 days?

It is a low risk that it will be needed, but is exactly the reason you are wanting safety cover.

It is 14 days of isolation.  Why would you think it 10, but think qualified to post an opinion?

I think isolation would only be required IF the person was covid +ve (or perhaps while you await an answer).  CPR is an AGP - it is HIGH RISK for transmission.

Originally posted by getafix   As for changing rooms and club facilities most can change in the car or hold a towel around your waist - there are these things called cool boxes you can keep cold drinks (aka beers) in for afterwards and that leaves changing facilities indoors free for people who HAVE to use them, as there won't be so many people about and keeping 2m apart will be well possible

Ensuring you aren't meeting more than 6 people of course...

Dinghies should be crewed by same household sailors (easy in single handers)

Trolleys can be pulled away once boats are launched and sailing away

Marks can be laid and picked back up by rescue boats (or left out there depending on the water)

One person can be in the race box, the others outside doing flags/recording times/using radio

Rescue boats can be launched by groups, as long as people stay 2m apart, that's going to be OK on all but steep ramps with big boats, perhaps use a winch from a vehicle if you have real issues in recovering or launching with limited numbers?

Drowning will actually kill as will extreme hypothermia, right there and then, at least if you catch Covid you get a chance of a save at a hospital - so launch a rescue boat or two - IMO it's far lower risk than going to your local supermarket or getting involved in a protest march.  The numbers involved in sailing are going to be far less than those caught on video this weekend in London and Bristol.  OK, I accept that in an extremely unlikely scenario someone on the rescue boat may have to do 1st aid and that potentially includes CPR, which would then lead to isolation for all involved until risks can be said to have passed, I believe that's 10 days?

Everyone who wants to race will have to accept their role in doing the duties required to make it possible, as well as safe, for everyone else.  Yes, that means you will overall get less outings, but at least you will be getting out and that's better than sitting typing and wistfully looking out the window 

As for changing rooms and club facilities most can change in the car or hold a towel around your waist - there are these things called cool boxes you can keep cold drinks (aka beers) in for afterwards and that leaves changing facilities indoors free for people who HAVE to use them, as there won't be so many people about and keeping 2m apart will be well possible

Depends in which way! Either because if its OK for 10,000 people to squeeze into a small place to throw bikes at horses its presumably fine to have 2m distance sailing?  

Or because - wave 2 is not almost certainly just 2 weeks away, and so we will be in a full lockdown again?