Created 31st March 2021
Requirements
- The Environment Agency has opened river to non-essential travel and leisure activity.
Guidelines
- Do not enter the club grounds if you have a fever or other Covid-19 symptoms or have been in contact with someone with symptoms within the last 14 days.
- Wash hands regularly to minimise surface contact spread. The club provides hand washing facilities at the clubhouse entrance, please wash your hands on arrival at the club and frequently during your stay at the club. If you prefer to use hand sanitizer, please bring your own and use it.
- A sign-in book is provided at the entrance to the clubhouse, please sign in and out so that the club has a record of who is at the club for NHS Test and Trace. If you are attending with your family only one of you needs to sign in and out.
- Everyone to maintain social distancing at all times.
- Organised racing has exemptions which allow groups, but informal sailing is not covered by any exemptions and so gatherings are covered by the rules that apply elsewhere. The Rule of Six therefore applies to informal sailing at the club.
- The clubhouse is closed and off-limits except during racedays where access to the toilets is allowed. Access to the changing rooms and the bar facilities remain closed at all times.
- Please come prepared for sailing. If the weather is cold and/or wet, please dress accordingly, there is lots of information on the internet about clothing for Winter dinghy sailing.
- The safety boat will only be used during racing and cannot be used outside a designated session.
- You must wear your own buoyancy aid. Use of club buoyancy aids is not allowed.
- You can only sail your own dinghy. Use of the club boats is not allowed.
- Sailing from the club is for members only.
- The RYA recommendations state that multi-crew dinghies can be crewed by members of different households for racing, but it is recommended you consider the RYA guidance before sailing. For informal sailing, it is also possible but must conform wider the wider social contact regulations – social distancing and Rule of Six.
- All dinghies must be equipped with a paddle.
- You and your household must rig your dinghy and be able to get it in and out of the water without the assistance of somebody outside your household. Ensure you are socially distanced whilst carrying out rigging, launching and retrieving.
- Be careful of members of the public when launching and retrieving your boat to ensure social distancing and safety.
- Dinghies only to be sailed in safe conditions; enough wind to power the boat and not too much wind to cause high risk of capsize. It is the helm’s responsibility to assess this.
- You must be a competent sailor to ensure you can sail without requiring assistance or rescue.
- You must be able to right your boat without assistance in the event of a capsize.
- A maximum of six boats are allowed to moor at the jetty at a time. Please be patient and polite when discussing access to the jetty.
- Please have consideration for other club members when using the jetty area, both in and out of the water.