Our Club will be practicing social distancing and launch load reductions. Also, if there is/are many members wanting transfer to their boat, then only the captain shall be taken out with the captain coming into the docks to pick up their crew..
Phil, I so agree with both these points, and I think they are related to some degree. This crisis has made it easy to climb up on the moral high ground for some and to act brave and stupid for others. The time spent criticizing others in nasty ways should be better spent doing real research on risk levels and mitigation strategies for ourselves.Fellow SBO-ers. No matter your opinion on the virus, I think we can all agree it's important; probably the most important world event of our lifetimes. I really don't want to shut down threads and eliminate the topic. But to avoid that we need two things from everyone:
1. Tolerance for other points of view.
2. A common set of facts. And by that, I mean facts from major universities, noted virologists, and the CDC or equivalent. No politicians, no blog posts, no doctors who made their fortune selling weight loss books, etc. There are other forums where you can cite that stuff all day long. In the interest of the lives of our fellow sailors, this is not one of them. If it turns out I'm wrong I'll be the first person lining up to apologize. If you have questions or comments please PM me but please do not post them here.
Thank you. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I can't believe you are so cavalier about this pandemic. Over 75,000 Americans are now dead that were alive and looking forward to 2020 on December 31st, 2019.Agree, most people have already been exposed if they have been to a casino or sports event. Does anyone really believe that government moves faster than a virus?
So if the limit is 3 people on the launch and the “powers that be” are attempting to abide by the 6ft distance advisory then 21/3 = 7. Add another person and you get less than 6. Yes there is the argument about same household but that’s ignoring the safety of the launch operator (wouldn’t you just love to have that job right now!). How do you prove and/or check that people are from same household???My club is getting ready to open launch service to our moorings and we're grappling with the problem of social distancing on a 21' launch.
I question whether that is safer, both in terms of distancing (que at dock) or old fashioned accidents. I'm not a COVID-denigher, I swear, it just sounds less safe, over all, to me. Many people are not that confident or skilled single handing near docks. I think it would be safer to allow 2 people.Our Club will be practicing social distancing and launch load reductions. Also, if there is/are many members wanting transfer to their boat, then only the captain shall be taken out with the captain coming into the docks to pick up their crew..
I am one of the powers that be but I am only one vote and one opinion. I am just trying to figure out what is both safe and practical. I don't want the launch drivers intimidated by members behaving badly because a rule has no basic common sense and more importantly, I don't want to see a launch driver or elderly member get sick. My 12 years of coaching kids sports taught me that the adults are not the most reasonable people and my 6 years on the board have taught me that the members sometimes aren't either. Thanks for your input, stay safe.So if the limit is 3 people on the launch and the “powers that be” are attempting to abide by the 6ft distance advisory then 21/3 = 7. Add another person and you get less than 6. Yes there is the argument about same household but that’s ignoring the safety of the launch operator (wouldn’t you just love to have that job right now!). How do you prove and/or check that people are from same household???
Could/should the club add more launches for this season?
I note there is a lot of questioning of the decision makers in this and several other threads these days. Understandable and I’m not claiming I’m innocent of that. However I would like to offer a few things to consider:
1) If you don’t like the decision makers that are impacting your life run for their office.
2) Before you run for office volunteer your time as a coach, trainer, sponsor of a youth organization. The interaction with parents and some of the kids will thicken your skin.
3) Lets not forget that this is a sailing forum.
Take care of yourself and others.
As with any reopening in these “abnormal” times any decision is challenging. I would think that anyone at your club will be overjoyed about getting out on the water and hopefully be patient and understand that decisions made are for safety reasons.I am one of the powers that be but I am only one vote and one opinion. I am just trying to figure out what is both safe and practical. I don't want the launch drivers intimidated by members behaving badly because a rule has no basic common sense and more importantly, I don't want to see a launch driver or elderly member get sick. My 12 years of coaching kids sports taught me that the adults are not the most reasonable people and my 6 years on the board have taught me that the members sometimes aren't either. Thanks for your input, stay safe.
"Same household" is just a convenient way to describe the situation. It doesn't matter. If a group of eight guys come strolling down the dock and they are high-fiving, chest bumping, getting in each other's faces, they are a group of related adults who are already giving and getting what each other has. Limiting their group to two at a time on the launch won't make them safer. It will, in fact, leave some of them behind, where the possibility of some other unrelated person might come upon them while they wait on the dock longer than needed be. If two people arrive separately to the launch, on the other hand, they would be better served to board the launch and ride out to their boat, one at a time.How do you prove and/or check that people are from same household?