It's been in the background, people that dont want to offend the more technical members have been chatting behind the scenes.
Ive really looked at our youth sailing training these last two weeks and my thoughts changed nearly daily.
It looks to me that we need a series of boats to step up to so there is an obtainable target within their attention span. Take our windsurfing training the sails booms and boards change to suit the rider. My kids did a week of it and loved it, now I've got one on my cars roof today I will be making a smaller boom and cutting down a sail . This will still teach them sailing.
Has anybody tried cutting down an old dacron sail on an older "A" for kids, does it still tack because Im thinking an older marine ply one is easy to fix, cheap simple to rig, light, stable with an endless supply of old sails that can gradually get bigger and you can pile people on it. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
regards