Covid-19 and Stuart Marine Corp.

we are still working with a backlogged schedule, reduced crew, supply chain delays, PPE, stringent facility protocols; and customers like ourselves who want to return to the pre-Covid normalcy of their lives. 

Thank you for your support as we do our best to meet your continued expectations of Stuart Marine Corp. Boats and services.

APPOINTMENTS ARE AVAILABLE WITH 24-HOUR NOTICE TO ACCOMMODATE SALES, SERVICE, AND CURBSIDE PICK-UP OR DELIVERY.

ALONG WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING AND FREQUENT HAND WASHING, MASKS ARE WORN IN OUR BOAT YARD & SHOP.

COVID‑19 Basics

• Take Every Precaution

  Take simple steps to reduce the spread of COVID-19, such as:

  • Wear cloth face coverings when in public, when around people who don’t live in your household, and when you can’t stay 6 feet away from others, including when you
    are outside.

  • Wash your hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds

  • Avoid close contact with people who are sick

  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands

  • Stay home as much
    as possible

• Know the Symptoms

  Symptoms of COVID-19 include:

  • Cough

  • Shortness of breath or
    difficulty breathing

  • Fever

  • Chills

  • Repeated shaking with chills

  • Muscle or body aches

  • Headache

  • Sore throat

  • New loss of taste or smell

  • Congestion or runny nose

  • Nausea or vomiting

  • Diarrhea

• Seek Medical Care if Needed

  If you are symptomatic or are a close contact to a COVID-19 case, you should be tested. You can find a a state sponsored test site near you on the Keep Maine Healthy testing page. Always call before you arrive to let them know you are coming.

The Stuart Marine Corp. crew

Practices physical distancing and good hygiene to prevent the spread of the disease

• Keeps work spaces safe

• Staggers work shifts

• Demands six feet of physical distancing for staff, customer and vendors

• Schedules break and meal times to limit contact between employees

• Positions posters to remind staff, customers, and vendors about mask wearing, hand washing and physical distancing

• Stocks for employees: hand soap, masks, gloves, tissues, and paper towels

• Designates one trash can to dispose of used items

• Positions hand sanitizer around the work and public spaces

• Discourages shaking hands and other physical contact

• Promotes information and a work environment stressing personal hygiene and clean surfaces

• Ventilates work spaces with opened doors

• Discourages sharing work spaces, benches and tools

• Receives deliveries in a safe location

Cleans & Disinfects

• Cleans dirty surfaces and high touch areas using soap and water including tables, benches, doorknobs, light switches, benches, handles, toilets, faucets, and sinks.

• Disinfects cleaned surfaces using EPA-registered household products, diluted bleaches or 70% alcohol solutions

Follows the Marine Manufacturers Prevention Checklist

February 17, 2020, projects are pictured below presenting our last day of work before the first Covid shutdown of Stuart Marine immediately furloughed our crew of twelve talented and loyal employees for the next two months.

Dear Stuart Marine Employees,

Effective immediately on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, we will close Stuart Marine Corp.  The City of Rockland has asked our community to respect the order to ban public gatherings for 5 days, and we will do so.  After 5 days, the city will decide to extend or dismiss the order allowing us to return to work.  Please advise if you would like to pick up your checks on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, from the green mailbox after 12:30 PM; or confirm the address to which you’d like your checks mailed.  I expect you and your families to stay safe during this shutdown.   God bless.  Dave #StuartMarine      

Kris Carroll, President, Grady-White Boats, speaks for many of us established builders when she says:

In my 45 years as a boat builder, business has been threatened by oil embargoes, exceptionally high interest rates, luxury taxes, wars, terrorist attacks, recessions, blizzards, hurricanes, floods and now a pandemic. All those hard-earned lessons have allowed us to create multiple plans and approaches to choose from when a disruption arises. Making it a priority to be prepared for all scenarios has been a successful strategy for us thus far.

Our best thoughts go to everyone who has lost a loved one to Covid-19; whether it is from the virus, disease, suicide, alcohol, domestic violence, drug overdose, or medical complications due to the lack of treatment. God Bless America. - The Crew at Stuart Marine

Google Doc’s - MAINER VS. PRITZKER

Judge Michael D. McHaney’s Ruling for the Circuit Court of Clay County, Fourth Judicial Circuit of Illinois - May 23, 2020

Since the inception of this insanity, the following regulations, rules or consequences have occurred: I won’t get COVID if I get an abortion but I will get COVID if I get a colonoscopy. Selling pot is essential but selling goods and services at a family-owned business is not. Pot wasn’t even legal and pot dispensaries didn’t even exist in this state until five months ago and, in that five months, they have become essential but a family-owned business in existence for five generations is not.

A family of six can pile in their car and drive to Carlyle Lake without contracting COVID but, if they all get in the same boat, they will. We are told that kids rarely contract the virus and sunlight kills it, but summer youth programs, sports programs are cancelled. Four people can drive to the golf course and not get COVID but, if they play in a foursome, they will. If I go to Walmart, I won’t get COVID but, if I go to church, I will. Murderers are released from custody while small business owners are threatened with arrest if they have the audacity to attempt to feed their families.

Our economy is shut down because of a flu virus with a 98 percent plus survival rate. Doctors and experts say different things weekly. The defendant cites models in his opposition. The only thing experts will agree on is that all models are wrong and some are useful. The Centers for Disease Control now says the virus is not easily spread on surfaces.

The defendant in this case orders you to stay home and pronounces that, if you leave the state, you are putting people in danger, but his family members traveled to Florida and Wisconsin because he deems such travel essential. One initial rationale why the rules don’t apply to him is that his family farm had animals that needed to be fed. Try selling that argument to farmers who have had to slaughter their herds because of disruption in the supply chain.

When laws do not apply to those who make them, people are not being governed, they are being ruled. Make no mistake, these executive orders are not laws. They are royal decrees. Illinois citizens are not being governed, they are being ruled.

The last time a monarch tried to rule Americans, a shot was fired that was heard around the world. That day led to the birth of a nation consensually governed based upon a document which ensures that on this day in this, any American courtroom tyrannical despotism will always lose and liberty, freedom and the constitution will always win.