Promoting Sailing Clubs

Or pile them all in an old Mirror on a nice sunny day in shorts and tee shirts (and BAs, I guess) and sail out, anchor and have a picnic.

Originally posted by turnturtle We don't live in the 70's anymore and no one's heard of Swallows and Amazons.... wooden boats,  wooly jumpers and Douglas Gill spray-suits have their place, just not with newbies and kids imho.

Worryingly as I have grown older I have found a spot of fresh varnish and a new yellow buoyancy bag or two correctly inflated strangely alluring.

For the record our little Club is self financing, in surplus and I personally do not forsee any need for it in the near future to go cap in hand to Sport England for funding capital projects so I don't see us as a drain on the wider sailing community.

My perception of Lottery funding when it first came on stream was that there was an expectation that Clubs (certainly ours anyway)would have to change their Modus Operandi big time to fit into the Sport England mindset in order for any application to be successful, which then would have been totally unpalatable to us.

Originally posted by turnturtle ...and no one's heard of Swallows and Amazons...

Rumour has it there's another remake being planned.

The present mindset of some of our newer members often worries me when it comes to what to wear. Drysuits and wetsuits have their place (early spring winter, on the sea and really big waters) but to continue to wear such gear on a hot summers day amazes me. How they do not get heatstroke I do not know on days when I find wearing a buoyancy aid leads to overheating!

When challenged the reply is often that we may capsize but on our small water, its just like falling into a warm bath!

filming was delayed until 2014.... nothing more on the production company's website.