Demographic changes?

Originally posted by orange underwing There was a Y and Y report of a Christchurch S.C pursuit race where the scow start was noticable by the amount of pushing,shoving and shooting obsolete rules at each other

Are you saying this is because they were being sailed by old people? What excuse do the Oppies have?

Yep its definately a common theme, but not as suggested due to financial ability.

As we have discussed many times, the current newly qualified, are far more likely to try an activity for a year tick the box and move on.

The big problem is that we have a generation of people keen to have a go at everything and master none of them. Unfortunately its a trend that I think is being encouraged through schools and also now in the workplace and is being hailed in industry as the enabaler for flexibility which businesses appear to demand when operating with a reduced workforce!

Im hopeful for a swing back to people focussing on becoming great at one or two things but I think we'll have a 10-20yr wait for it to happen.

Originally posted by Rupert Some of the people who were retired when we joined the club in 99 are still racing competitively now, when in late 70s or early 80s. Inland clubs probably suit this better, but one of the top Firefly sailors at Restronguet is over 80, and has sailed with the same crew for 5 decades or more. Well, they are married!

Our veterans trophy is for over 45s I did point out that most of us were over 45 but its still presented,

Originally posted by rodney Originally posted by JimC One of our club members told me about an interesting bit of research he did. He was looking at pensions expenditure at the large company he worked for, and discovered that those who worked to 65 often didn't survive their 60s, but those who were given early retirement a few years earlier often lasted twenty years or more. Alternatively work until you're 90 and beat the stats However it's a sad issue that the average age seems to be the old(er) generation! The 2015 Dinghy Show stats are, IMO, a bit worrying for the sport

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Edited by 2547 - 05 Oct 15 at 6:58pm