If you keep asking different people to sail, a few will and a few of those will become active fleet members. With that thought in mind, I want to share with you one of Allan's columns that included an equation for fleet growth. Stickers are defined many ways, but we all know who and what they are and what they contribute to sailing over the years. They are the ones that can always manage to find the time to sail, even though they may be the busiest people you know. They are also the people that have the time spend with new sailors, run club programs, travel to out of town regattas and support sailing in many ways.
Stickers make up the core of any fleet.
Every fleet should have the maximum number of stickers allowed by the laws of demographics. If this formula is right, we can recruit 3,000 more Windmillers. Even if this estimate is way off, we still have a lot of room for growth. For the class to stay healthy, we must stay healthy at the fleet level. We are all competing against soccer, swimming, baseball, tennis, motorboats, not to mention drugs, alcohol and couch potatoes.