SNAKES!

Main reason our interclub league stopped was due to members realising club they visited was way better than theirs, so moved club.

Maybe Jezza can add ‘ time off for sailing ‘ to the rest of his bunch of bullsh*t one liners on his next manifesto pledge?

Anyway, I hope you’re right Jim, I’d imagine time becomes a lot more fluid when the nest empties eventually! And certainly when one hangs up their boots from the work game and the 9-5 is no longer at someone else beck and call.

Well if an enlightened Gordon is correct and time is the prime asset and not money.

Originally posted by sargesail In the same way I note that  those of a certain (young) age and unwillingness are increasingly getting involved in organisational roles.

'twas ever thus. When you're young you take from the sport and let others to the boring organisation. When you're older you feel its time to put something back and do the ****. If it turns out that the next generation is so completely up their own posteriors and self obsessed than they won't stand up when its their turn then everything will fall apart and they'll get what they deserve for their kids... Most likely it won't though, because it was ever thus...


Edited by JimC - 29 Jan 18 at 4:11pm

There is an argument that we should have more clubs fail to end up with a lesser number with better subscriptions. I would wager that 50 years ago to travel 10 miles to the local club was about equivalent to 20-30 miles in todays car yet we still broadly have the same numbers of sailing clubs as 50 years ago looking at the commodores board for most clubs I have been in.

Sailing clubs also rely on the kindness of volunteers and therefore can run to really low overhead levels compared to most businesses hence the ability to continue to operate when a commercial venture would have long since given it up.