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how do we.....
as a sailing community get more young people involved in sailing?? From daysailing in a little lake, to racing around the buoys, to coastal cruising, to livaboard, how can we involve younger people???
I don''t know about you, but at my YC the average age of a sailor is somewhere between 55-65. I''m one of the very few members under 40 and there is NO ONE under 30.
I guess my question is how to we promote sailing as a sport/lifestyle/activity......
I was wateching this morning as Ellen McArthur (age 28) broke the solo round the world record............how many young girls here in the US care??? How many young people know who Russell Couts is?? Or Gary Jobson?? or Dennis Connor or that Ted Turner sails and is not just involved in Baseball and Cable TV???
Is sailing so cost prohibative that children of only the wealthy have the opportunity???
I''m just thinking
Mike C.
O''28 "Da Capo"
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