The university that I attend has a sailing club, on the small side ( under 50 members, 2 years old). Our sailing club has ~10 boats, all of which have been donated, that we use for teaching club members to sai andl that can also be used by club members once they have learned to sail. That is in addition to the 5 member boats that are also parked at the lakeside property that we sail from.
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<br>We teach 4-8 people a semester how to sail, and have many more who come to our on-campus meetings. The biggest struggle we have is not finding people who want to learn to sail, but getting people who are willing to go out sailing enough to learn to sail (as in more than once). The other struggle is having enough people that already know how to sail to teach and maintain boats. It always seems to end up with 3-5 people in the club doing most of the work to keep things alive. Of all the boats the club has, already to be sailed, we have a rather hard time keeping them used.
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<br>Our first few meetings of the semester have tons of people who are really pumped about learning to sail, but 2 weeks later, most of them have gone away, never to be seen again. The tough part is getting those people to actually invest the time to come out and sail.
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<br>David Rogers
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