Three of us at Datchet have been discussing the two facts that there are no consolidated Marblehead Knowledge Bases online… and more broadly, how very hard it can seem to potential newcomers to enter into the Sport regardless of Class they sail.

This little prototype website has been built around all our club fleets to give us an impression of what it might feel like if we were to build the idea out more fully. Try and imagine it populated with a thousand items of knowledge scattered through the subject categories listed.

In earlier years, when this gap in the market for the Flying Fifteens was identified, we at Datchet embarked on the idea to build a knowledge-led website, that did race reports as well. It quickly became followed in 26 countries and it now treated by many clubs worldwide as a way of supporting newcomers. We wrote about 2,000 items about buying, owning and racing Flying Fifteens. To date it has been read more than two thirds of a million times.

It would be focussed mainly on our Club, its members, our classes – and trying to encourage potential members to join up – whether they be World Champions, or more importantly, potential new members in the South East who are considering the sport, and DWSC members in particular.

Don’t worry about the pesky adverts – if we go ahead with this kind of idea, for a nominal annual fee we can turn the ads off.

It works on a browser or your mobile. Let me know what you think. Richard J.