Coronavirus Blog

The intention of this blog is to keep a history of announcements made by the Club, but also to provide a way of helping members to keep connected. It will be a mix of factual posts and more light-hearted items and will also include links to items that may be helpful.

26th March: Protecting Those Defined as Extremely Vulnerable

Earlier in the week the Government announced it would be writing to 1.5 million people in the UK defined as being extremely vulnerable during the pandemic. They have issued this guidance.

One of our members impacted by this is Laser sailor Richard Major (on the right in the photo), who many members will know. He sent this status update yesterday when asked if he would like members to keep in touch:

“I am fine but a few emails would be nice. My highlight of the day yesterday was hanging out my washing! Only another 11 weeks to go!”

So if anyone would like to send Richard a message and doesn’t have his email address please send to webmaster@grafham.org and I will pass it on.

If anyone else out there is in the same situation and would like to keep in touch, please let me know and I can include you here.

26th March: Information for First-Aiders from the British Red Cross

Roy Harold, the club’s first aid trainer among other things, has provided this link to an article on the British Red Cross website, which he suggests may particularly be of interest to those who have attended his first aid course

25th March: Dead Fly Art

The son of one of our members is locked in because his daughter has a cough. He is a bit of an artist and generated this after only six days of quarantine. He called it dead fly art.

Drawn by Rob Kinnear

24th March: Announcement – Access to the Club Site

The Prime Ministerial statement yesterday (23 March) places stringent restrictions on people leaving their homes.  Consistent with these restrictions we have closed access to the Club Site with immediate effect.  The buildings are being secured and closed and the boat park is being checked before all staff leave site.  Access will not be possible until the restrictions are lifted; in the Prime Minister’s announcement he said that they would be reviewed after three weeks   In the meantime, we will do whatever we can within the Government’s restrictions to ensure the security of the site.  The office staff, who will continue working from home, will be able to remotely access email and phone calls, but please understand if there is a delay in responding.

Meanwhile Council is urgently reviewing the steps we need to take as a Club in order to deal with this radically changed situation and we will be writing to members with more details shortly.