Another club closure

Originally posted by maxibuddah Years gone by people were enthused by the Swallows and Amazons, those days are gone into the distant memories of the eldery that inhabit clubs these days.

Originally posted by maxibuddah Originally posted by sargesail Originally posted by maxibuddah Football for the most part is engrained into your soul at a young age. You grow up with it and junior wants a new shirt each season at a rediculous cost. But they do and that will be the reason they get a season tcket if they can ever afford one, and they travel. Football, like a lot of sports is a religion, you have faith. There is no rational about it, which is why they lavish vast amounts of money on it. Sailing on the whole is not a sport you can watch, lets face it on the whole its boring to watch, unless of course you are really into it. There are no teams to get behind to generate that 'faith following'. So unless you were brought up on it you are going to struggle to get people to commit in the same manner. For me: delete football. Insert sailing. Delete new shirt insert new sail. If I can’t be sailing I like nothing better than to watch it. I’m a believer! Too many negative vibes here! Where are these clubs that are closing (outside landlord pressures). How will we know that Duncan’s club actually did survive beyond his generation? yes, thats you though isn't it? I not meaning to sound bad here but you are a convert, a believer. You don't need convincing. However many do. Clubs are closing, or at threat (and not including landlord enforced closures here) because simply they do not have enough people joining to replace the leavers. That is what needs addressing. You need a combination of 1. retain existing members 2. Bring new blood into the club. Number 2 is the most difficult when people don't see sailing as something they want to do. Years gone by people were enthused by the Swallows and Amazons, those days are gone into the distant memories of the eldery that inhabit clubs these days. People seem to only be enthused by Amazon.co.uk these days. You are going to struggle to fight that.

Well yes it is. I’m glad you raise Swallows and Amazons - it became part of my belief system well before I started sailing.

The point is that to get longevity of engagement you need to make the sport part of people’s belief system….

Now let me ask again: (lots of talk of doom and gloom and one minute to midnight early in this thread). Can anyone name a club which has closed other than through landlord pressures in the last 10 years?

I seem to remember that in an earlier, similar thread it was recognised that at the point of seconds to midnight there is a tendency for ‘younger’ folk to finally take on the organisational roles they have so far resisted.

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Originally posted by turnturtle melton Mowbray?

Porky pies?

Tbh i have no real idea , I had assumed it had closed in the mid to late 90s at the same sort of time as Warwick and Evesham. But a quick Google search shows the web site is no longer active but they were still running opens in 2002 and I found some drone footage of boats sailing as late as 2011.

Edited by Grumpycat - 27 May 22 at 8:29pm