Hi Paul,
Got your PM but think it would be useful for all to know. The TSA has been in terminal decline over the last few years. Gone are the days of an Easter cruise with 20 boats (up to 5 WBs) as the members are getting older, fewer younger members joining and Easter seems to be getting colder year on year. With only 4 boats attending this year, the general opinion of those present was that a Broads cruise later in the year with hopefully warmer/better weather was probably the way to go for next year. As far as the TSA is concerned, there is now no membership fee, no website, no newsletter but there is a google group with the occasional flurry of posts but effectively the TSA appears to be mothballed/hibernating/changing in to a small group of like minded sailors meeting up for the occasional informal cruise. Where the TSA will be next year I do not know, a great shame as we have had some fabulous times over the past 28 years of owning Markie.
Got your PM but think it would be useful for all to know. The TSA has been in terminal decline over the last few years. Gone are the days of an Easter cruise with 20 boats (up to 5 WBs) as the members are getting older, fewer younger members joining and Easter seems to be getting colder year on year. With only 4 boats attending this year, the general opinion of those present was that a Broads cruise later in the year with hopefully warmer/better weather was probably the way to go for next year. As far as the TSA is concerned, there is now no membership fee, no website, no newsletter but there is a google group with the occasional flurry of posts but effectively the TSA appears to be mothballed/hibernating/changing in to a small group of like minded sailors meeting up for the occasional informal cruise. Where the TSA will be next year I do not know, a great shame as we have had some fabulous times over the past 28 years of owning Markie.