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Sam.Spoons
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Topic: Coronavirus and Club Sailing Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 3:23pm |
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My club has suspended all organised activities, members are free to sail at any time though and that has not changed. I think I will be getting the Blaze out of the boat park today or tomorrow as I might just decide to self isolate for precautionary reasons down at the caravan......
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 3:40pm | |
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.
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Sam.Spoons
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 4:24pm | |
Dinghy sailing (in single handers at least) does not involve the close proximity of others or physical contact so should be pretty low risk. It is also in the open air and with a 1 metre 'social distancing' zone in the boat park you should be conforming to the advice of the government. The only risk factors are with rescue crews and OODs who usually work in close proximity to each other. So organised racing might be inadvisable but free sailing should be ok for now.
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 4:37pm | |
What proportion of clubs allow free sailing, I wonder?
The coastal ones generally can’t stop it, but many (most?) inland clubs are prevented by the landlord.
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 4:46pm | |
Main issue is how are you getting there? Non essential journeys are frowned upon.
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Sussex Lad
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 4:59pm | |
......thought the non-essential travel advice was regarding foreign travel?
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JimC
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 5:16pm | |
I think you'll find that's non-essential journeys that involve contact with people at the other end. |
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 5:20pm | |
I understand they want to minimise chance of accidents, help NHS?
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PeterV
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 5:30pm | |
I've always found it staggering how many inland clubs ban sailing without rescue support on the basis of safety arguments. After 10 years of this nonsense at my last club I've now moved back to the coast where I can continue going out by myself as I've been doing since I was 10 years old.
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PeterV
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Sam.Spoons
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 20 at 5:32pm | |
Curtailing healthy activities that don't involve contact is a double edged sword, maintaining the good spirits and mental health of the populace will go some way towards minimising the impact should they catch the virus and as long as they don't ban all travel I think sensible traveling to access such activities would probably be to the net benefit of the NHS (but I definitely don't claim any special knowledge).
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