As many of you know, I recently had five summers off for bad behaviour - I raced five seasons with the Dragon Fleet at Medway Yacht Club. It was a really fabulous experience and I learned a whole lot there. They have around twenty boats in the fleet and every Saturday about 19.5 of them turn out for Fleet Racing. The Fleet Captain there, an old friend of mine, Hilary Gallo was very keen on "Management Metrics" for the Fleet. I was reminded of this last week when we discovered that the average age of our FF sailors is 45. That was one of Hilary's three success metrics. He tracked two other things as well.... (i) the average age of the boats in the fleet inventory (ii) how much money was invested in the fleet each year in way of new, secondhand and replacement boats. I think this is not a bad stab at metrics which tell you much more about the health of a fleet. Got any other ideas?
I wonder what the average age of our boats was last year and this???.......
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