Travellers

Blimey this is a dreary negative thread !

The vast majority NEVER travelled in the distant past either and presumably had all sorts of reasons then as well.  The real contrast is that they did not have access to 'social' media then to justify their non-involvement ...  what on earth is the point guys ?

If other folks dont want to travel - absolutely fine in my book.... but the rest of us are not exactly busting to know all about it.  The sailjuice series kickes off in a few weeks and has bumper numbers who do somehow manage to justify their involvement .. and travel.  It suggests quite a lot do get their kicks by getting involved as well.... and the numbers continue to rise year on year.  Perhaps the organisers ARE doing something right there. 

There has also always been a turnover in the sport - some come in and some leave.  This is not unhealthy either.  So if say bikes grab you more at the moment go off and just do it ..  you can come back into sailing anytime you want .. or it is even possible to do both.  Just don't wallow in tired old self-justifications on the keyboard - go out and find some other activity that you can justify and enjoy....    

B****r  all this for now - I'm off sailing ....

Its now a pointless thread - people who don't want to travel/ cant be bothered etc saying how difficult etc it is and justifying to themselves why they dont

Yes sometime going to events is a bit difficult compared to sailing at your own club but thats like most things in life - its not always easy.

Personally I love packing up the boat, getting up early and heading off

Yes it would be much better having a forum where nothing gets discussed positive or negative and you can all go on thinking everything is well in your world of corrupt handicaps, class favoritism, dreary old 1950's boats being warmed over because if anything new comes along it'll get killed immediately with a crap handicap. So as your class attendances dwindle and only the big handicap events expand because there is nothing else left that is perceived as going somewhere and they are dominated by 'fixed' banditry bent on preserving the status quo.

Much better not to talk about it.

Originally posted by Poole Pirate ...with less people doing it the meetings are getting smaller

But are the meetings getting smaller? Or at least smaller in proportion? Its inevitable that people stop going to open events as their lives change, but hopefully they are replaced with others. Its also inevitable that individual classes rise and fall in popularity. But unless you have real recorded data across a wide range of classes you can't make any generalisations. I haven't done an analysis, but I'm not sure that my clubs opens are getting less popular overall, but the numbers rise and fall for individual classes every year.

Liking this Cirrus bloke's thinking.