Surprisingly, to my mind anyway, the average age is .... 45..!!! Why am I surprised? I've been in the fleet for 15 years and I would hazard a guess, that this is the lowest age it has ever been in that time. Have you wondered not where the next new member is going to come from, how old they are etc .... but have you ever wondered who the next "generation" of our fleet are?? The ones that will make up our fleet in ten to fifteen years from now. Actually, they are unlikely to be non-sailors I feel. No - I think they are today's 35-ish year olds, who already enjoy their sailing. What are they sailing now? What do they expect as 'standard/normal' in boats they sail now and will sail in the future?? Interesting questions with a Rig vote coming up. What are they sailing now? Well, maybe RS and Laser products, I don't know.... unlikely to be in Cats, as they are for much older people..... Ha ha ha ha !!! (Club joke...) We should all think about it.
This brings me to a possible subject for tomorrow. If we had two or three Strategic Management/Marketing goals for our fleet, what would they be? I suspect that that one of them would be that we hold or lower the average age in the fleet year on year.
This will be the subject of a posting in the next few days.... !!!
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