Quote: C'mon Bert & Ernie give us some insight into what you are up to, you may even get some of us to join....



I only speak for myself but I think Ernie will agree that neither of us are at all big in the www. We have both known about the club for a long time but only joined last year. Neil is right that the club does many good things and is well worth the involvement if that's your bag. Personally I'm finding it hard to make time to windsurf (three times last season ?) never mind be an active participant in a club. Ernie has a young family and job etc as well.

Well I only joined WWW last year and I've no personal history / issues with the club or any of the individuals involved. Therefore I can't add a lot of factual detail (other than to agree with what Neil's added). Obviously I'm not going to give away the club's secret passwords, initiation ceremonies or any of that stuff either, but for what it's worth my experience of WWW so far has been:



I turned up one Saturday last year in reponse to announcement on this site about all-comers longboard fun racing that WWW were organising. I've never tried racing before but the format sounded like a good way to stretch myself a bit and get to know some more of the sailors on the WK lake. WWW had organised the longboards. All I had to do was bring a 7.5 rig.



So, I turned up, the guys (mainly Mike) provided me with a board, introduced me to some of the others and explained how the racing worked. As it happened the wind then kicked in much stronger than forecasted (how often does that happen?) and shortboard racing became a much better option, so it was back onto our own kit. No matter, we had a good couple of hours of 'fun slalom' racing, which I thouroughly enjoyed. Despite the fact that I was grossly overpowered, underskilled and probably a public hazard, the guys there were all very welcoming and seemed a good bunch of blokes. I liked what I saw and I joined the club.



Since then I've been on an excellent gybe training session with Windy John (at a bargain price, organised and subsidised by WWW) and would have joined in more events if it hadn't been for work commitments and injury.



I guess it's in the very nature of clubs that some people put in a lot of effort to organise things, see to the admin, chase the subs etc and then all they get in return is criticism and suggestions that they should have done things differently.The bottom line for me is that the guys who run the club seem to do it well to me. I'll certainly be renewing my membership this year. As for 'clique', they let me join so it can't be that exclusive

edited by: TwoFish, Mar 01, 2005 - 07:09 AM

Excellent! This is the first time that anyone has explained the workings of this club and it does indeed sound like a friendly organised venture. Thanks for letting us know what is involved. How do we join? How much is it? Is there a subsidy on the lake licence?

See the link in the menu to the left just here.



Read the rest of this post (yes I know it spans several pages)



put 'west wirral windsurfers' into the little search box just up to the right



click the "Search iwindsurf.co.uk" link on the left hand menu and enter 'west wirral windsurfers'



enter 'west wirral windsurfers' into google (yes it comes up with this site)



OK I've led the horse to the water, now what ?

Could you make it a bit easier to access this information?

How about going for the record of the biggest posting on the forum. We've got to three pages so far.... What is the current record. I reckon we should aim to get an entry from each person who is a member. Anyone up for it?