I am on my second week of quarantine and it's driving me bonkers, I can go out for exercise though, running or walking, not cycling (you could fall off I suppose).

My club had a meeting yesterday by 'Skype' haven't heard results yet.

Not over 70 but vulnerable so my plan was to change at home, go down and go sailing and not go for a drink afterwards. 

Always enjoy the sailing but will miss the social afterwards, deciding where I went wrong and joking with others.

Some of our members free sail when the club is closed anyway, zero contact then. They do have single handers but for double handers the drag up the beach without a winch would be an issue.

My only problem at the moment, can't get any bread 

The government has confirmed that people with mild symptoms should stay at home and self-isolate for seven days. We know that all of this could affect planned events and activities. Unless there's official advice telling you not to do so, and as long as you follow the government advice on how to avoid catching or spreading the virus, you can continue with things like group activities and use of club facilities.

I'm with Y&Y on this. Sailing is good for both mental and physical wellbeing.

And read the bit at the top 'Updated 17th March'.....

The latest advice from govt, as of yesterday evening, is to avoid non-essential contact with others so I would say group activities are off the agenda.

The coastal ones generally can’t stop it, but many (most?) inland clubs are prevented by the landlord.

Go get you boat and work on it

Work on your fitness 

Do loads of DIY so you can sail all summer

If we follow the advice we will get some summer sailing

+1

The only risk to this that I can see is if we upset the pious who might not understand that there is no contact.  Be interesting how the mamils get on.

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That will wipe out a huge proportion of the volunteer force at most clubs and without people filling the gaps its easy to see why clubs are having to close down.

However if people do step up and help I can't see why we can't run club races, free sailing or whatever. The weather is getting better so you could even open the bar and sit outside. remember we are talking about around 30 people on a good day at most clubs and this turnout will inevitably be reduced.

Yes, we need to be careful, yes we need to look after those who are vulnerable but we cant just seal ourselves up for three months and frankly, I would rather go and sail my boat with someone I know and trust than take a walk around the block around strangers.

Yes, we can, and Yes we should. You may not have a choice anyway, as per Italy. This is a new world we are living in right now and we had better deal with it whilst we are alive enough. Selfish actions by others will cost lives. The situation will eventually recover itself and us taking a few months break is a small price to pay.

I lose my job at the end of this month due to the virus business impact on my employer - a travel company employing tens of thousands of people. Its painful for me, but puts priorities in focus.

So does your food just materialise in your house? Do you not think you are more at risk of catching/transmitting this either in a supermarket or via a home delivery?

Sailing is a very low risk in comparison.

Yes, it does bring home our priorities. I would be extremely surprised if any championships take place this spring/summer. But other, maybe lesser in some cases, priorities are mental health and excercise. We need to exercise and I cant see how sailing my boat locally at my club is higher risk than taking a walk provided its done responsibly.

That's not a totally unreasonable position. I'd just point out that IMHO I suspect many of our clubs would fold quite quickly if their members took that view. Guess those who belong to a large "commercial" club might have a different view to members of the smaller volunteer led clubs, where funds are perhaps more lacking. 

I doubt my club would survive if it lost a seasons membership income. 

Our renewals are at the end of the year so this was less of an immediate concern but we did discuss impact of closing the club on membership renewals for 2021 which is why we are going to review at end of April so that we can show that we are trying our hardest to keep open for members.

It was actually an easy decision to make as it is the only logical choice once you realise that you cannot force people to show up and do duties. The real issue is when we come to re-open as no doubt some members will want to get started and others will feel unwilling to come out of hiding so asking people to restart duties will be the point of tension!

Comparisons with 'Black death' will be made, how uneducated people coped and how todays educated people cope with covid-19, not that this is likely to be as bad.

I think that's an exaggeration, based on the fact that we have so much more information today, available at our fingertips, instantly. This pandemic, whilst nasty and not to be belittled, ain't a patch on the 1918 'Flu epidemic in which millions perished.

Spanish Flu killed an estimated 50-100 million people, the Black Death an estimated 75-200 million people in Eurasia (estimate up to 60% of the population of the affected areas).

Evolution...

Now if the wind gods will only play ball and stop blowing a gale every weekend I intend to sail without using changing room etc. It will help NHS by relieving my stress from trying to keep my business afloat.

I will take a VHF and Phone but wont go if its dodgy as I haven't sailed for  a few months (mostly thanks to Fords inability to keep parts in stock for a 3 year old van).

Its something I do on a summer evening anyway and have a small buoy and anchor set to moor of to whilst getting my trolley. 

Really eerie by me, hardly any planes and traffic very quiet.

I appreciate your posts are sometimes provocative, but i think you are gonna get called out on this one.  The Italians, for one, will roast you.  

So does the Influenza virus in whichever strain arrives each winter, but there's no panic over the bigger numbers there. 

CV19 is a highly infection disease - no question. BUT, it is a relatively mild infection to most healthy adults. The problems begin with people spreading it around without knowing they're doing so and infecting the vulnerable, who are much more likely to suffer a statistic in the 'fatal' column. That's why social isolation is so important.

Didn’t you notice the snowflakes lost the last election to right wing fascists who said they would get things done and didn’t need experts . So stop moaning  and get on with it. 

Anyway aren’t people in your age group supposed to be in self isolation anyway ?  😂😂😂

People socially isolate and the curve flattens, we sail in the summer.

People don’t socially isolate and the curve steepens and well have total lockdown, no sailing far greater economic turn down, more deaths etc. The impact on many club members is fatal or financial and clubs close due to lack of members. 

Yes people may get changed in their car but they will nip to the garage on the way to club for a sandwich/petrol. Just swing by Tesco because they drastically close to their safety stock of 50 loo rolls. 

I can’t help people get well, I can stop people getting sick

The reason we are all so careful is that we don't want to spread the virus to the vulnerable. The vulnerable are those over 65 with underlying health issues. Many of my neighbours are in this position.

It occurred to me that there could be a different approach to protecting them. It is possible to find the vulnerable and to target protection measures directly at them rather than shutting down sections of the economy in the hope they will not get the virus. We currently have a shotgun type approach, maybe there is room for a more targetted approach?

We will never know whether it is an over reaction but you only have to look at the China vs Italy to understand it has to be worth a try. 

I can’t understand that people think their entertainment is more important than another human beings life. 

The bike is fine though and getting fit will probably have a more positive effect on you results than going for a leisurely sail.

I agree that entertainment is less important than life. However, I am concerned that the response has gone too far and will have long term damage on business as a result. If you take emotion out of it the decision makers have to work out "how many deaths versus how many jobs lost" if you will forgive me for being blunt. Its impossible to know if the decisions made so far have been right or wrong but as someone who employs 500+ people and has many mates who run businesses I would be worried about how many jobs are going to be affected too.

After a great start to the year, with our fleet doubling and great performances at world titles, it all went pretty spectacularly downhill and we may now be a bit tired of drama.  Our fleets are now so small that we may as well keep on sailing since three or four is not a crowd.