Fun Times
To Break Down the Age Barriers that have been set up in the sport, we need to have young sailors get onboard adult sailing boats. Additionally, traditionally the adults socialize and celebrate sailing afterwards with some adult beverages. This activity is another exclusionary step for the young sailors. How is this fixed? We provide something for the under 21 group!
Read the article "What Do the Ingredients of Beer and Segregation Have to do with Sailing?
Each boat in the fleet takes a day where they are in charge of hosting a Fun Times for the under 21 age crowd. You might even enlist those who are teetotalers that may wish to get away from the adult beverages. Here's a list of things to do with the young sailors, budget 1-1/2 hours for each day. Note - do not offer electronic games, you'll find that they get enough of that already!
If you build it, they will come.............
OVER THE TOP - FUN TIMES
Another way to look at this is that Sailing is in competition with everthing else in the world. Put a smile on everyone's face at the end of the day with any one of these fun times, then send them home. They become your ambassadors to bring more people back with them next week.
Read the article "What Do the Ingredients of Beer and Segregation Have to do with Sailing?
Each boat in the fleet takes a day where they are in charge of hosting a Fun Times for the under 21 age crowd. You might even enlist those who are teetotalers that may wish to get away from the adult beverages. Here's a list of things to do with the young sailors, budget 1-1/2 hours for each day. Note - do not offer electronic games, you'll find that they get enough of that already!
If you build it, they will come.............
FUN TIMES
| Croquet | Dancing Contest |
| Singing Contest | Limbo Contest |
| Talent Contest | Water Balloon Toss |
| Battle of the Bands | Egg Toss |
| Bobbing for Apples | Beach Dodge-ball |
| Bike Rally | Chute Flying |
| Kite Flying | Local Beach Clean-Up |
| Jump Rope | Local Community Clean-Up |
| Hop Scotch | Harbor Bottom Clean-Up |
| Water Balloon Fights | Rain Gutter Regatta |
| Stilts | Kazoo Band or Contest |
| Tug of War | Kick the Can |
| Squirt Gun Fights | Soccer |
| Sandcastle Contest | Touch Football |
| Funnelator Hitting Inanimate Objects in Harbor | 5K or 10K Run |
| Joke Telling Contest | Themed Costume Party - Pirates, Ball Players, You Name It |
| Club Gardening | Smelt Fishing, Frying Eating |
| Tether-ball | Fishing Contest |
| Ride Crappy Bikes off the Pier | Ultimate Frisbee |
| Raft Up Party | Board Games |
| Drive Golf Balls into Empty Dinghy | Golf Long Shot |
| DIY BBQ | Swing Kids Off Boom Into Water / Boom Diving |
| Swimming Contest | Halyard Swinging into Water |
| Who'se Got the Chicken? | Find the Rat |
| Rowing Contest | Hide and Seek, Using Boats Too |
| Bunco | Bad Pants Day |
| Bad Hat Day | Tiddlywinks Contest |
| Campfires on the Beach | King of the Hill |
| Body Surfing | Dancing Lessons |
| Horse (Basketball) | Cribbage |
| Uker | Bridge |
| Chess | Water Skiing |
| Hiking | Boccie Ball |
| Get a Bunch of Lasers, Drop 2 Marks in the Harbor and Have Once Around Triangle Races with Bow, then Grinders, then Mast Crew, then the Kids in Age Brackets. Then Award a Team Prize. | Board Games |
| Bottle Rockets | Kite Flying |
| Paper Airplane Contest | Card Games |
| Bags (Cornhole) | Shuffleboard |
| King of the Mountain | Body Surfing |
| Line Dancing Lessons | Bridge |
| Radio Control Sail or Power Boats | Bilge Pump Battles |
| Commando Course | Make Attending the Party Part of the Regatta Score |
| Jacks | Marbles |
| Pitching Pennies | Water Tubing |
| Yo-Yo | Slip & Slide |
| Bring the Cool Cars For A Show | Bring the Family Pets For A Show |
OVER THE TOP - FUN TIMES
| Remove all of the furniture in the club, bring in a professional carnival (We've seen it done). |
| Bring in a strong dance band that gets all ages up on the floor all night. |
| Bring in an exotic animal handler to discuss, display and let people hold and pet them. |
