Posted By: charlestomeo
MOTIVATION - 05/05/05 06:48 PM
I just wanted to express my concern for our slowly dying sport. It is a shame that in all of the effort that we as sailors but in to the act of sailing NONE of it is put towards keeping our sport alive.
It troubles me that there is not any efforts to motivate our youth to become interested in sailing. I do not know if it because we live in this Generation of Need for instant Gratifications but we need to do something.
I am embarrassed to tell my family that I am about to embark on a 600 mile journey that is supposed to be regarded in our sport as one of the big races and they have to hunt/and or sift through the bowls of the internet to find any information about this race.
Bottom line it needs to change and if it does not we as sailors should sail off into the distance never to return.
I call on all sailors alike to describe to ONE person of youth and when and if you do, do it in a way that would captivate them. X-treme. WHen you think about it OUR SPORT IS VERY X-treme. I promise that if you tell one it will matriculate to others.
A message from a concerned sailor.
Charles Tomeo
It troubles me that there is not any efforts to motivate our youth to become interested in sailing. I do not know if it because we live in this Generation of Need for instant Gratifications but we need to do something.
I am embarrassed to tell my family that I am about to embark on a 600 mile journey that is supposed to be regarded in our sport as one of the big races and they have to hunt/and or sift through the bowls of the internet to find any information about this race.
Bottom line it needs to change and if it does not we as sailors should sail off into the distance never to return.
I call on all sailors alike to describe to ONE person of youth and when and if you do, do it in a way that would captivate them. X-treme. WHen you think about it OUR SPORT IS VERY X-treme. I promise that if you tell one it will matriculate to others.
A message from a concerned sailor.
Charles Tomeo