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Medway Maniac 
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 Topic: Demographic changes?Posted: 16 Oct 15 at 8:49pm |
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I predicted this situation when Sunday shopping was introduced. To many younger people, Sunday is just another day, not a boring day when you need to find something fulfilling to do, like it was for me.
It sounds trite, but I also suspect social media has something to do with it. Being parted from Facebook and Twitter etc, is being out the loop, and so you are missing out on 'real life'. Totally false, of course, but many younger people do not like to be separated from their devices for as long as they inevitably are in a day at the sailing club.
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Rupert
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Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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Posted: 16 Oct 15 at 10:11pm |
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Why go sailing when you can go to the Outlet Village. Used to just be Jesus we were competing against.
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Posted: 16 Oct 15 at 10:40pm |
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Hang on guys. There's another reason why younger turnouts may be lower at the dinghy show. For a while now, lots of the junior and youth classes are either holding big competitions on that weekend or it a squad training weekend.
Feel free to call me ridiculous, but i've long wondered if there was an intentional intervention from the RYA to the junior and youth classes to give things for the sailors to do other than attend the dinghy show for fear that they'd see all the cool different boats and be inspired to do something other than follow the olympic route. Ok that is a bit ridiculous but on the flip side, those are the few classes that the RYA really has any say over, so why haven't they had a chat with them and the RYA squads and just said "ok guys, can we keep this weekend free so that these kids don't have anything taking them away from the dinghy show". Bare in mind that some squads have become very strict whereby if someone says they can't make one of the training sessions, they're then dropped from the team. There's so many weekends over the winter, so why are they consistently year on year scheduling training on the dinghy show weekend? |
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kneewrecker
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Posted: 17 Oct 15 at 2:55am |
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it's not just the younger generation - why would someone who's got other responsibilities give up a precious weekend sailing pass to trudge around an exhibition hall looking at boats they'll never buy and chandlery that's more expensive than a couple of minutes in front of google?
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Medway Maniac
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Posted: 17 Oct 15 at 3:40am |
Too right, Rupert. No sooner had we escaped the clutches of the god-botherers than we fell into the arms of the consumer god. Or at least not us - we're the ones who got away. |
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423zero
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Posted: 17 Oct 15 at 10:48am |
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My club changed to Saturday sailing due to members wishing to attend Church on Sunday.
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Posted: 17 Oct 15 at 11:47am |
Are you from the US? Surely this couldn't have happened in a UK sailing club? |
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JohnJack
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Posted: 17 Oct 15 at 12:15pm |
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How come Sunday is the traditional sailing day anyway?
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Do Different
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Posted: 17 Oct 15 at 12:55pm |
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Before we moved to a structureless 7 day 24 hour week it was not so unusual for some people to work on a Saturday morning or do their shopping.
When I first left school and started work I certainly saw Saturday morning as work time albeit perhaps light jobs and setting things fair.
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Roger
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Posted: 17 Oct 15 at 2:43pm |
Quite simply Sunday was historically the day for doing your leisure activities. Saturday you could go shopping with the family, go watch the Football/Rugby, many still had to work on Saturdays, get the DIY and gardening done etc etc. Historically Sunday was your FREE day, no top flight sport back then on a Sunday, no shops open, no need to work etc etc So people used to go Sailing on Sundays, play football in the park, go to the beach, whatever floats your boat...... but now Sunday time is not free, there are 1000s of other distractions from the shops, to taking impressionable kids to see the football, Sundays have changed from being days of leisure (when we went sailing), to just another ordinary day. All this of course probably explains why the busiest time at our club, probably by a factor of 3 or 4 is Thursday evenings, racing turnouts on Thursday evenings are way way larger than Sundays. Weekend sailing has now become a "hard core" activity, generally those who sail at the weekends are very dedicated to their sport and have long term established a habit of Sunday/Weekend sailing with their family/spouses. Imagine in your 20's or 30's with a spouse and young family telling them your going to take up sailing, and you'll be out of the house from 9.00am till 5-6.00pm every Sunday, sometimes longer and sometimes for the whole weekend, and by the way your about to spend upwards of £5,000 on a boat. It's not going to go down too well is it, but if you say I'll just be a home a few hours late on a Thursday/Wednesday evening, and then only during the summer, you might just get away with it!.... Of course if your established behavior is going sailing every Sunday when you meet your spouse then they take that on as well, so your chances of continuing weekend sailing are better. |
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