Racing 2020? Who Are We Kidding?

[Senator Seditious Maximus 363]

Well I've just about scratched the last of planned regattas from my 2020 calendar and am staring at a year of "off the book" races we're organizing ourselves outta sheer boredom.  That and alone time on the board-boat might be all the time on the H2O I see this year.  So enquiring minds wanna know...will there be ANY organized racing?  Will the rescheduled Melges 24 Worlds 2020 really happen before the clock strikes midnight on 2020?  Are any of your plans gonna pan out?

Here's to you Covid-19

 

[Hitchhiker 872]

I just finished building this up.  I know what I'm going to be doing.

[Greyhound37 76]

4 minutes ago, Hitchhiker said:

I just finished building this up.  I know what I'm going to be doing.

damn that is an old girl! once ya get her moving she will be good on the flats and gently rolling

[Senator Seditious Maximus 363]

Yup.  The cycle is plan B.  Got some options.  PNW summer road tour and Sedona AZ MTB.  Hell might just do both.

 

[Hitchhiker 872]

21 minutes ago, Greyhound37 said:

damn that is an old girl! once ya get her moving she will be good on the flats and gently rolling

Hey! She's not that old, maybe 8, nor that heavy.  The only thing holding her back on the climbs will be my legs!

[Controversial_posts 117]

We won’t be racing in 2021 either at this rate, especially not for international races. S2H is a local race at best until a vaccine, probably not until 2022.

The lockdowns have only delayed the outbreak in most states (other than NYC and NJ).  As soon as cool weather is back, cases will jump quickly again, and we’re right back where we were in March, except greatly impoverished.

We should be using the spring and summer to build herd immunity among children and the young, who are almost entirely unaffected. Sweden gets it, taking some pain early for a quicker  recovery.

[Greyhound37 76]

18 minutes ago, Hitchhiker said:

Hey! She's not that old, maybe 8, nor that heavy.  The only thing holding her back on the climbs will be my legs!

Sorry looked like a steel or aluminum frame in the photo

[JohnMB 320]

4 minutes ago, Controversial_posts said:

We won’t be racing in 2021 either at this rate, especially not for international races. S2H is a local race at best until a vaccine, probably not until 2022.

The lockdowns have only delayed the outbreak in most states (other than NYC and NJ).  As soon as cool weather is back, cases will jump quickly again, and we’re right back where we were in March, except greatly impoverished.

We should be using the spring and summer to build herd immunity among children and the young, who are almost entirely unaffected. Sweden gets it, taking some pain early for a quicker  recovery.

All fine if catching the disease actually creates immunity, so far that is unclear. Having  a section of the population catch the disease may have no effect whatever on 'herd' immunity. Maybe it will work, maybe it wont.

[Hitchhiker 872]

21 minutes ago, Greyhound37 said:

Sorry looked like a steel or aluminum frame in the photo

Steel frame/carbon fork.

[Hitchhiker 872]

I think for us BBS may be the first regatta.  Possibly Long Point, a small regatta out of Newport Beach, late in the year.

We had the Puerto Vallata Race and MEXORC in March.  Were those the last regattas run in 2020? 

[Controversial_posts 117]

16 minutes ago, JohnMB said:

All fine if catching the disease actually creates immunity, so far that is unclear. Having  a section of the population catch the disease may have no effect whatever on 'herd' immunity. Maybe it will work, maybe it wont.

If catching it doesn’t give immunity, then there is no hope for a vaccine either. I think that’s less likely though.
And if the immunity is very short, then the best course of action could be for everyone to get it quickly, so that it dies out before immunity dissipates.

In any case, it seems that large portions of population are almost entirely unaffected (or possibly don’t even catch it). I think we really need to find out who they are and why, and let those people go on with their lives.

[10thTonner 266]

1 hour ago, Hitchhiker said:

I just finished building this up.  I know what I'm going to be doing.

Nice. Whatsit rate?

[Hitchhiker 872]

13 minutes ago, 10thTonner said:

Nice. Whatsit rate?

Under ORR (Older Rider Rule) .500 up hill.  1.900 down.

[JohnMB 320]

45 minutes ago, Controversial_posts said:

If catching it doesn’t give immunity, then there is no hope for a vaccine either. I think that’s less likely though.
And if the immunity is very short, then the best course of action could be for everyone to get it quickly, so that it dies out before immunity dissipates.

In any case, it seems that large portions of population are almost entirely unaffected (or possibly don’t even catch it). I think we really need to find out who they are and why, and let those people go on with their lives.

My personal approach is to try to reduce the 'if's' before embarking on a course of action which might not be reversible.

[Controversial_posts 117]

1 hour ago, Cristoforo said:

21 yr old kid just died here. Was healthy as could be before Covid. 

Love the people who say sure send your kids back to school etc. but don’t send mine. 

Yep. Getting out of this will end up being numbers game. With the world’s 3rd largest population, it won’t be without losses though. I know that sounds flippant or uncaring, but I suspect much like in war, society will have to accept higher risks.

[Controversial_posts 117]

FWIW, i signed up for one of the vaccine challenge lists.

[Jono 42]

In NZ the Optimist Nationals have been rescheduled from Easter to November and the Starlings (junior class - 100 boats at Nats) to early December from mid-April.

Keelboat winter series have all been delayed from their usual early May start, Now looking at mid-May if our lock down recovery goes according to schedule. I suspect the short handed divisions will be popular......

[View from the back 13]

Just go sailing with your friends......  like this......  good social distancing.

[quickrelease 1]

nice ride, but I prefer all carbon double hander for the 2020 season, as there will be no sailboat racing in the NYC and western long island sound for a long time