What’s missing from this site?

[Trevor HollowayParticipant @trevorholloway99134]

Perhaps I should have used the word "patrol" ?

Even the small ducks are bigger than the boat.

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I can vouch for the non-seriousness of Trevors post.

Ashley

[The Long BuildParticipant @thelongbuild]

You could have a boat with a fog horn on our pond and the resident ducks would just swim past, They don't seem bothered by fast or slow boats in fact I think they like it as we have quite a few land gulls (because of all the numptys who bring most of the bread factory down to feed them) they fly off when you get close with a boat, leaving the pond free for us and the Ducks..

[john teeParticipant @johntee77287]

I'm a bit late responding to this thread as I've only just joined the site. My main interest is R/C aircraft and we have the same problem attracting younger members.

The two main factors that seem to affect us are the need for our flying sites to be more remote than boating lakes and the need for parents to transport their youngsters to site and stay for maybe 4 hours doing something they may not be personally interested in. Access is also a problem with our site in bad weather (all last year it seems) as we have to cross two fields to get to our strip – can be very muddy. This may not be such a problem with boating/lakes.

Another factor which I assume also applies to boating is the need for parents/guardians to be present to comply with the child safety legislations.

Here in West Sussex access to water suitable for boating is limited as angling clubs seem to get priority (money talking??). Our local council has limited access to the water in our countryside park from what I gather even though there is room for all users.

John

[john teeParticipant @johntee77287]

As an add on to the above , our club goes to a local junior school each for three days helping over 100 pupils build easy to fly models. they never seem to follow it up later.

Ian says they like to make things but it is worrying that some of the kids don't know how to hold a modelling knife safely and try to press down with their fingers on the cutting edge of the blade. It keeps us on our toes!!!

John

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