Dear Locks
The Committee have met to discuss the current Covid situation and how it affects our Club. Following advice from the RYA, sailing from the club will be permitted but competitive and organised sailing will need to stop in line with Government guidelines. Therefore, you can access your boat and take it out for a sail providing you follow the latest Covid guidelines and ensure that you sail in a conservative and considerate way.
The club house will be closed for use, so you should make other arrangements for changing.
The only way to deal with this situation is to keep planning for better days ahead and be ready for them when they happen. Our new sailing Secretary Ollie GT has planned a winter series running from January till March. We don’t know how many of these we will be able to race but they are prime tide days so if racing isn’t an option, we hope some social sailing will be possible. Winter sailing is safer in a small group and we can use the Whatsapp group to make informal plans.
This clearly is not the Christmas we had hoped for and we probably face a few difficult months but be assured that the sun will be out, the days get longer, the rain stop, and this pandemic will fade allowing us to get back to better times. In the meantime, on behalf of the committee I would like to wish you the best Christmas you can have and looking forward to a much better 2021.
Kind regards
Chris Flewitt, Commodore