Clubs still allowing sailing

The trouble is, he's right.

Overnight ordinary people have fallen under the dire judgement of others who know absolutely nothing about them. We have people calling the police because they don't think their next door neighbour should be going to work. They don't think that guy across the road should be talking to the lady with her children walking past his gate. The group of three housemates walking round the park are too close.....

The list goes on. There was a video on the TV of the police talking to a man for playing football with his children in his own front garden. A high up police chief in the north (I think it was Yorkshire but I could be wrong) was on TV telling people if they couldn't behave he would have officers in shops checking people's shopping, a statement that was retracted very quickly.

These are isolated incidents by overzealous busybodies, but you begin to understand how the secret police forces of 30' and Cold War dictatorships conducted their business. 

I don't like what I see. It isn't the Government that bothers me, they are doing the best that they can. Certain sections of the population really worry me. This crisis is bringing out the worst in them.

I swing from 'it'll be over soon, hang fire and watch netflix' to 'this sh*t's straight out of the shock and awe playbook'.  It stinks of human bad action, Christ knows who the real perps were, but we'll never really know and the internet is full of conspiracists already.

Gaia Theory would be a nicer explanation - gives us all space to breath and learn from the experience together as one species - but it doesn't sell newspapers, or increasingly, ad revenue on click bait.

I dunno, but in 40+ years, this seems to be the weirdest reset I've seen the world take.

Exercise alone or with member of your own family

Keep 2m away from those outside your household.

Stay local. 

In practice this would mean limited or no parking. 

No rescue cover; because you can't expect members who aren't exercising to travel

No organised racing; because you can't confine people to a committee boat or race box.

No clubhouse because people may congregate and break 2m rule

If there was concern that the club would be flooded with sailors, then I'd run 'rota' of some sort for the first few weeks or so. Have 50 half day slots when people could put their name down to sail. The monitor. You could do it by which area of the boat park people are in, so you don't have people rigging up on top of each other. 

Would it though? National Parks have managed by controlling car parks and limiting space.  

The most effective way of stopping prolonged journeys or unnecessary travel is having police monitor trunk roads and popular routes to the area, just as they have done for national parks. 

The weekend before full lockdown we had essentially the above rules. And the harbour wasn't packed, there were a dozen boats out. With the addition of not being able to sail with those outside your household I think it would be less. 

A bigger problem is beach (like west witherings). But again car parking and checkpoints on trunk roads are the answer to that over crowding. 

I have not, I did call the distributor to ask if they had a demo back in 2019 and was somewhat sneered at. I was just curious really rather that genuinely interested so I did not bother to follow up. I was happy to see another singlehander that says it can carry people that are bigger than the Laser or Aero were designed for and was interested to see if it really could.