I will consider myself lucky if I am able to launch this season. With the restrictions we have here in NS i am not sure how i could get my boat ready. I know things with covid change daily but seems we are still increasing here. Sailing is a social thing and here mid June thru Sept is great. We are not all like those early pioneers who did it alone like Joshua Slocum. I need group help with getting Alianna in the water.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 8:17 AM Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Easy everyone! > > This is a hugely frustrating experience for all. Banning people from > marinas only lasted about a day in Maryland, see my previous post about the > clarification from the governor’s office. My marina never even tried, with > about 20 live-aboards and no physical way to prevent it there was no point. > > I come close to probably 100 people buying groceries and exactly 0 people > at the marina, so there is really no risk at all of me catching or > spreading anything. > > Have a thought for fellow sailors in a MUCH WORSE fix. Take a look at some > of the forums like noonsite and cruisers forum – there are many boats that > are the equivalent of the Flying Dutchman. They left X a couple weeks ago > and no place ahead of them wants anyone entering and they can’t go back a > couple thousand miles upwind to a port that probably wouldn’t let them > enter either. There is a whole snowbird fleet in the Bahamas facing a very > uncertain future. The Out Islands have a very tenuous supply chain on a > GOOD day and almost nonexistent medical facilities. What happens when they > arrive in the USA is not a sure thing, many if not all marinas are not > taking transients or selling fuel, and the situation is doubly bad for > Canadian flag vessels that don’t have enough stores and fuel to go direct > from the Bahamas to Canada. They run the risk of being pretty much stuck at > whatever port in Florida they show up at. > > > > Meanwhile we are trying to figure out the season for CRYC. Board meetings > are now conference calls and we have no clue if we’ll have any racing at > all or our summer kids sailing. This is going to be very hard for programs > all over the country that were on the edge financially. The instructors > that are not yet hired can’t get unemployment for jobs they don’t have. If > this follows the Spanish Flu model summer won’t even be the end of it. > > > > Joe Della Barba > > Coquina C&C 35 MK I > > Kent Island MD USA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile
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