Don't be so negative! If we each got one person into the sport, we would double our numbers. No manufacturer will do that without setting their mind to it. I think the manufacturers know exactly what to do to promote the sport, if they wanted to. I'd guess that it suits them to have relatively small numbers sold at high margin. We can bemoan our lot, or do something about it - such as dragging people in, or creating promotional vidoes, such as the Spitfire sailors did at Weston (with some involvement from Reg White, but largely self-effort). My point is that it is obvious what the manufacturers should do to promote the sport. I cannot imagaine they are sat round their boardrooms wondering what on earth they can do to grow the sport and find themselves fresh out of ideas - to the extent that I think they don't want to grow the sport.

Let's focus on what we can do (which for some of you may include influencing the manufacturers - but not in my case!).

Cheers
Simon

Cheers