That is true. But once you have a fleet developing, you cannot rely upon a web site to keep in contact with the fleet members. You have to almost literally put the information in their hands on an ongoing basis.

Our sailing club sends every club member an e-mail two or three times a week about upcoming events and meetings and activities. And on top of that Rick sends an e-mail twice a week to all of our Wave sailors, both local and distant, reminding them about our Wave racing locally. Even the people who are too far away to come to the local series races are motivated by at least seeing that others are doing it and having fun. And it makes them feel included in the class, just knowing that somebody cares enough to send them information.

In the old days we used to do all that contacting every week by telephone, so e-mail has been a big help. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />