This is way too long to get groups of people involved at a sailng club. You really need to at least halve that. I described a method on the thread started by Matt that removes most of the time consuming stuff and still gives a good boat that can be built before the kids attention span runs out.
The method I describe would allow tasks to be allocated to kids that are simple and quick. With a sailboat materialising in front of them quick enough to keep their motivation up.
Lets face it, if you can get the kids involved in the whole process everyone will benefit.
I was particularly lucky with my son James as he has always been extremely patient. My youngest son is much closer to the norm of kids these days and would have to build the way I described.
BTW: The next family type project will be with my youngest son and it will be an Ice Flyer (with wheels) on account of we aint got no ice.
Last edited by phill; 01/04/0707:03 AM.
I know that the voices in my head aint real, but they have some pretty good ideas. There is no such thing as a quick fix and I've never had free lunch!
