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Steven Adams
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| 07/18/2007 12:52 PM |
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Need any suggestions you folks might have to overcome concern at my Lake based Yacht Club that by adding a J24 (they consider big boat) fleet, we will loose our small dinghy fleets. With this in mind the Board will not allow J24s to race with the club and have not allow two applicants with j24 to become members unless they bought and raced one of our existing dinghy fleet boats.
The Board sites other Lake based clubs that have lost their small boat fleets to larger boats like the j24. My answer has been, if you feel you can't keep the small boat fleets active and folks interested in them...they are not doing enough to promote their fleets. If I can get folks sailing/racing J24s who otherwise would not have joined and are in the club now and not sailing small boats anymore, it is a win win for all. Their other arguement is that we will steal all the crew. The three of us who have J24s at the club (we were already members, so they could say no to us), have always "picked" up crew from the shore who had no other crewing job...so they lost that arguement...and this would still be the case as we have many, many adults and junior who are left behind and want to sail in some way.
It may be we simply can't win this, but looking for ideas anyone might have.
Thanks
Steve |
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Dan Webb
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| 07/25/2007 7:57 AM |
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My reccomendation is to have one of the J/24 owners get on the Board or you might be fighting a losing battle.
Good Luck!
By the way, where are you located? I'm just curious what lake/area doesn't want J/24's because they think they are too big? |
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Steven Adams
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| 07/31/2007 10:31 PM |
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Dan,
thanks for the input...however three out of four of us have been on the board at least once...the "old" members of the club are just convinced a J24 will ruin their small boat fleets...I just don't see it that way...we think we get more our on the water sailing with the J24, who have stopped. But they have oficially indicated they will not give J24s or what they consider large boats a start for racing with our regular SAT and SUN races.
So...we race with a small sailing club up the lake...and are building the fleet...up to five now...and growing. |
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tim oelschlager
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| 09/06/2007 2:27 AM |
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Sail with the other club.if that's feasable and start a fleet there.
Try to have J/24 races at a different time. ie, if the dinghy's race sat. &Sun. afternoons you have the J/24 races in the mornings or vice versa.
Try to have an evening race series. our club has a Thursday night series that last all summer and it has our best attendance.
Wouldn't the club want to promote sailboat racing no matter what the boat? You are dues paying members and should be entitled to race. I would try racing at a different time than them.
If that doesn't work. hehehe go out sailing for fun and run em down, steal there wind, sail in there way and just be ahuge pain in the but. hehehe.
That's discrimination of J/24's and we have rights too... file charges against them. :) |
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