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
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