CSC Committee decision on sailing
The CSC Committee has decided that, with certain changes and restrictions to our normal practices, dinghy racing can continue for the following reasons:
- there have been no cases in Cambridgeshire nor the parts of adjacent counties closest to the club where the homes of our members are concentrated
- the farmers owning and using the fields adjacent to the river where we race dinghies have been contacted and have no objections to our sailing
- we are stopping spectators leaving the club grounds to walk along the banks (our back gate is closed)
- we shall temporarily change the way we race to stop sailors going ashore except on our club grounds (see below)
- we are not be breaking the law if we have to set foot on the washland in an emergency (the notices on this land are only advisory asking people to "refrain" from walking on it)
- Bill Key of the Cambridge Rowing Federation has confirmed that rowing is continuing to take place upstream even where access to the towpath is BANNED with no apparent criticism
- the committee will review the situation from day to day in case any of the above reasons for their decision change.
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Changes and restrictions imposed by the CSC Committee
Although the club is so far from any occurrence of F&M, the committee has decided that the following precautions should be taken until further notice:
- racing may be stopped at any time, eg if the paths along banks by the race course are completely closed by order, so that walking on them would break the law
- no member may walk along the bank except in an emergency and visitors to the club are asked to respect this restriction
- sailors with problems that can't be sorted out on the water must submit to help from the rescue boat rather than go ashore, unless in extreme danger
- the rescue boat crew should stay in the rescue boat and not go ashore except in extreme situation
- members living in areas close to infections are asked not to come to the club
- sailors are asked to change before sailing into clothes kept specifically for sailing and not worn to and from the club or elsewhere
- members and visitors are asked to use the disinfectant facilities provided for their vehicles, including trailers arriving at or departing from the club.
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