Benefits of Sailing
Sailing brings many advantages relevant to the Covid-19 situation
- Health Benefits (physical and mental) -
- also respiratory and vitamin D advantages of being outside
- Self distancing relatively easy to achieve
- Covid 19 is not believed to be water transmittable
Italian university Politecnico di Torino has collaborated with the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) to release a more-than-400 page report detailing its findings about which sports are safest in a coronavirus-plagued world and which are most dangerous.
The study lists 387 sport disciplines that have been categorized from 0 to 4 depending on the risk of COVID-19 spread. On the scale, 0 represents non-existent risk, 1 weak rise, 2 medium risk, 3 high risk, and 4 very high risk. Among the factors considered are the conditions for training, competition, and public presence.
According to the study, sports that fall into the 0 category, with 'almost no possibility' of spreading the infection, are disciplines like sailing, open water swimming, golf, and tennis.
Last updated 10:11 on 19 June 2020
