Demographic Changes

I never said that our little club would not survive. It will survive but without 'youth'. The range of participation will go from forty to infinity the same as now. We are lucky in that this year we will have four competitive Byte sailors ranging from 26 to 37.....and two of them are girls! The problem is that we have no regular juniors to fill in at the bottom while the older members fly off to heaven at the top! Perhaps we should change our name to Combs Water Punks or Combs Where Water rocks but when those hip new members turn up and see Norman in his WW2 shorts we may be prosecuted under the Trade Description Act. As it stands we are a sport, at least at small club level, for middle age men onward. No bad thing, look how stupidly young the Rolling Stoned looked in the 1960's compared with now, they have grown into the image they projected all those years ago. As has Norman and his shorts.

Saving sailing perhaps not the right theme,  open to suggestions etc

Originally posted by turnturtle do you want to have a forum whip-round and get him some Zhik deckbeaters?  (Or would he pocket the money and buy warm beer and cake with it?)

Originally posted by Simon Lovesey The US even have a site http://savingsailing.com/

Alliteration is a wonderful thing, but if it gives a false impression then maybe less than helpful.

There will always be people sailing, just maybe not in the current formats.