Diversity and lack of it

Not your problem or any one individual, (unless you are persuading people not to sail), """issue"""  , if it exists ? Purely responsibility of an organisation. None trained individuals will try to hard and target audience will think "fake".Sailing is perceived to be a moneyed sport, end of.    
Edited to add, bl00dy difficult too. 

Edited by 423zero - 28 Feb 22 at 8:16pm

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423zero Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 08 Jan 15 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3420	Post Options Post Reply Quote 423zero Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Diversity and lack of it Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 7:32pm
	Not your problem or any one individual, (unless you are persuading people not to sail), """issue""" , if it exists ? Purely responsibility of an organisation. None trained individuals will try to hard and target audience will think "fake". Sailing is perceived to be a moneyed sport, end of. Edited to add, bl00dy difficult too. Edited by 423zero - 28 Feb 22 at 8:16pm
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iGRF Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499	Post Options Post Reply Quote iGRF Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 28 Feb 22 at 5:54pm
	Wasn't really thinking about it until I was getting bored waiting to leave the show on Saturday 2-3 hours and I'm about done and I made the mistake of coming to the show with the Club Contenderati who frankly are worse than a shoe shopping trip with the breadknife in full Imelda Marcus mode for gossipping. Couple of weeks ago I went to the bike show at Excel, and tbh you don't really notice who or what skin tint is riding it, it's the bike you check out, but when I think about it, the comparison between that show and the sea of white faces at Farnborough does give the lie to the total lack of diversity in the dinghy world and causes you to wonder why. I swear to God I didn't notice a single face of any ethnicity other than white unless you count mild mediterranean Portuguese in the Pornstar designer. In this day and age, I find it very strange. I was there as it turned out pretty much all day saturday and being bored actually started to look around. Nada. Woke bomb not going to well for them is it?
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