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Jack Sparrow
Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2965 |
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Topic: Unsafe sailing venue? Posted: 30 Jul 15 at 5:21pm |
Umm... this will be interesting
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MerlinMags
Admin Group Joined: 19 Mar 04 Location: UK, Guildford Online Status: Offline Posts: 585 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 4:19pm |
Here's the official statement from ISAF.
www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/184665/ISAF-Statement-ahead-of-Aquece-Rio-Test-Event |
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Jack Sparrow
Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2965 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 4:54pm |
That article, official or not, just reads like PR, which it is. Given that ISAF is crapping it's self about having sailing chucked out of the games. I doubt we will see a forceful statement from them about this. In the mean time I wonder how many illnesses our and other nations sailors will pick up?
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JimC
Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6649 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 5:09pm |
Bearing in mind there's already been lots of sailing there in recent years there ought to be pretty good data about how many illnesses the sailors pick up.
Must admit I can remember the days when half the fleet I was in at the time used to go down with bugs the week after the Weston grand slam. |
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Caveman
Groupie Joined: 17 Sep 11 Location: Kent Online Status: Offline Posts: 64 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 5:40pm |
So the World's top sailors at the World's most prestigious sailing event will be risking their health as a result of exposure to raw sewage? That is pretty shameful. Mind you, I have sailed in a few places around the UK that were not great. Plus I well remember the stroll my girlfriend and I took along the otherwise fantastic beach at Lytham St Anne's. It wasn't fish that we spotted in shallows.
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tgruitt
Really should get out more Joined: 02 Dec 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2479 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 9:08pm |
Looked and smelled pretty awful when I was there in 2009... |
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Needs to sail more...
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Rupert
Really should get out more Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Aug 15 at 7:39am |
This has been in the news for a couple of years at least, yet there seems no interest from anywhere in doing anything about it. Too late now, I'd say, as any money put aside when they said it would be cleaned up will have vanished.
The other ignored thing was sailors being mugged between sailing and hotel. |
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Woodburner
Far too distracted from work Joined: 13 Mar 15 Location: Folkestone Kent Online Status: Offline Posts: 332 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Aug 15 at 12:01pm |
We're hardly in a position to comment, South West Water are still pouring raw sewage into the sea off Devon and Cornwall.
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Jack Sparrow
Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2965 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Aug 15 at 2:28pm |
Ummm.... so it seems that the sailing venue in Rio is NOT safe at all. Well done ISAF for looking after your competitors:
http://sailinganarchy.com/2015/08/19/outbreak/ |
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I luv Wight
Really should get out more Joined: 28 Jan 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 628 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Aug 15 at 8:22pm |
I recall sailing past a lot of 'logs' at Harwich 1980's on the way out of the harbour.
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