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H2
Really should get out more Joined: 26 Jul 17 Online Status: Offline Posts: 749 |
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Topic: Is Racing Allowed? Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 6:19pm |
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If you can tell me how racing with seven people is going to increase the spread of C19 I will agree with you. If its just that you are wired to love rules more than common sense then please stop "twitching yer curtains" and chill out. Ta
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Chris_H
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 6:20pm | |
Oh FFS. I am not stopping anyone doing anything. Get your head out of your arse. I am trying to put perspective on things. Chill out man.
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H2
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 6:48pm | |
Chris - coming to a forum aimed at racers and blathering on about the joys of pottering and lecturing people on why they are wrong is pretty annoying, especially when the thing you are advocating for us to do will have zero effect on stopping the spread of C19. I know you mention you are a Boomer in your signature, but sir, you are setting a new standard in Bommer.
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Chris_H
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 6:52pm | |
I am not lecturing, nor blathering, nor advocating, nor trying to be offensive - unlike others. I was trying to be the voice of just the f**k chill out. If you and others choose to interpret it negatively, then thats your problem not mine.
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Chris_H
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 6:54pm | |
Is it? Where does it say that?
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 7:09pm | |
Hey, there's twenty of us, shhh you plank, somebody might hear, OK everyone synch your watches, five minutes and Go, Ffs though 'don't shout GO', no one will notice us all lined up, giggling like naughty school boys
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rich96
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 7:35pm | |
H2
This whole forum was well frequented by racers once - sadly not so much now The glass half empty lot are really not adding anything to this debate - if they don't want to sail or don't agree with it they can just sit inside and snipe at those that are A lot of people have put in a huge effort to get some of us back on the water and, with time, sailing more competitively again Its of course far easier to sit back, criticise and presumably not go sailing ? |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 8:33pm | |
What a disappointingly aggressive turn of events. If you really can’t see that the more people congregate in an area the more risk there is, you are deluded. Maybe the risk is still acceptable, who knows, but it is higher.
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Windermere
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 8:59pm | |
We are thinking about starting racing at our club - but only for those that need to check their eyesight.
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jun 20 at 9:08pm | |
The RYA tell me that govt advise is still:
Stay at home as much as possible Work from home if you can Limit contact with other people Keep your distance if you go out (stay 2 metres (6ft) apart where possible) Wash your hands regularly Organised racing seems to push these more than free sailing. If racing it is harder (or less fair) to limit numbers, boats are likely to launch and recover at the same time, boats will be pushed harder (hence more likely for something to go wrong) and there will be more to discuss afterwards. I know generally the risks are pretty low for any individual and with care they are lower still, but the impression some give is that they believe the whole thing is over and racing can pretty much resume as before. In my three free sails so far someone has moved (touched) my trolley, held the end of my boom to stop it hitting them and several people have chatted at closer distance than I was comfortable with. These obviously happens more with more people around and a common event to focus on. One of my clients is a large manufacturer with 10,000 or so staff. Last year they banned the use of Stanley knives because of too many injuries. As you would expect this was ridiculed because most of them had never hurt themselves. As an individual, if you injure yourself every 10,000 days you can expect to go an entire career with perhaps one minor cut. But as a company on average there is an accident every single day - despite training, despite PPE and despite notices. There was so much time list to first aid and form filling it made sense, from their perspective, to ban the use. It is similar with racing. The risk to the individual is low, but collectively it may be too much. Or it may not, but the decision can’t be made on the risk to an individual. |
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