not every laser sailor is on this forum and I bet that many may not even know that this is going on.
The other thing that might be nice is a basic job description, I don't think many of us know exactly what the officers do.
At what age can someone start to serve as an officer?
I am saying, it sure looks like the only reason anybody is currently serving is a personal version of, "If nobody else will do the job I will hold the title and do what I can when I have the inclination."
Sorry, but I find part of gouvernail's first post in this thread derogatory to the current officers.
etc.....
Kids ahve something old age and experience always kills.....
How d'you think an 18 yr.old Class President would fare at a World Council meeting when confronted by the highly skilled, experienced and manipulative Mr. Martin? Or a panel of builders whose ability to earn a living depends upon the decisions of a bunch of volunteers?
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The game needs people who eat sleep and drink Laser sailing and who will drag their friends out to join them.
I have one for you...
How do you think any of us has ever fared any differently than a crying baby would ahve fared.
Sometimes they pay attention long enough to get us to shut up but NOBODY ever even slows the builders who do EXACTLY as they please.
All old farts do is get used to being ignored.
A pesky kid would come back and publish a newsletter where he bitches about being bullshitted by the Builders.
Let's see the last article like that in ANY North Americamn Newsletter was published in 2002...Summer issue??
The secretary stood up to the builders...
Something about hew drain plugs that had new threads?? Something about the eighth different plug after the first 120,000 boats ahd the exact same plug??
Something about teh original plug still being on the market?
Something about every singe sailr needing a drain plug to sailand the builder was making it difficult for us to find spares.
Something about NOBODY VOTED FOR THAT CHANGE!!!
The reaction in North America was for the builder butt kissing class officers to pick up copies of that newsletter at yacht clubs and throw them in the trash becuase the builder said the newsletter was HI-JACKED!!
Yes, somebody said something aswful about the builder and he quit paying for his advertising and withheld the $35 per boat new boat calss subsidy until the writer was gone!!
Yeah...Don't complain about his new thirty nine cent drain plug or you will be shoved out as a pariah.
Let the kids have at it.
Kids don't tolerate bull from anybody.
Kids still believe they can DEMAND an explanation.
Let's throw our snot nosed enthusiastic teenaged fanatics at the world council.
The kids in North and South America are the most intolerable creatures on the planet...unless they get their way...
It was American Kids who stomped the Kaiser.
It was American kids who kicked Hitler's ass.
It was American Kids who made Laser sailing the premiere world sailing game.
American Kids can take on anybody and win.
If the kids don't volunteer I say we draft them!!!
Absolutely true.
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Tracy has run the show for his ten years. The other 2000 of you who have benefitted and done nothing curently collectively owe Tracy 200,000 years.
It's HIS turn to just show up and rig and not worry about how teh details are tgaken care of.
As I see it there are 2000 of you screwing Tracy every day and I am sorta sick of it.
Gouvernail, I have a great amout of respect for you as a sailor and a human being, but the first thing that popped into my mind when you said this is, "piss off, jack." Maybe it's just my mood today.
Gouvernail, I have a great amout of respect for you as a sailor and a human being, but the first thing that popped into my mind when you said this is, "piss off, jack." Maybe it's just my mood today.
Please don't take your displeasure with me out on Jack!!!
But seriously....
I do think the game would be better served by those who are young and full of that enthusiasm associated with refusal to accept "I don't care" for an answer.
Part of the reason that I think people would not want to be an officer is due to the inexplicable bureaucracy associated with the class...
Thats half the fun! I'm still game! Vote for me! (how does this work again?)