Saving Sailing (+ $3 donation) The Story of Choices, Families, Time Commitments, and How We Can Create a Better Future By NIcholas D. Hayes ISBN 978-1-933987-07-1A Sports & Recreation Crickhollow Books · October 2009 5.5 x 8 · Paperback · 240 pp · New! Our price     $ 25.00         Quantity   * For details on the $3 voluntary donation, see below. Saving Sailing is an appealing blueprint for the revival of family sailing – and other quality uses of free time for rewarding lifelong pastimes. Participation in sailing is declining in America, down more than 40% since 1997 and 70% since 1979. In this provocative book, researcher and avid sailor Nicholas Hayes explains why. The book shows how pressures on free time have increased, and how, in response, many Americans have turned to extremes of spectator or highly structured activities . . . and away from lifelong, family-based, multi-generational recreation. Saving Sailing builds a case for choosing how to spend free time better, using it for quality experiences with families and friends through rewarding pastimes like sailing. The main challenge, the author suggests, is to develop an active system of mentoring, especially between generations. The lessons are broader than sailing, with useful ideas for all parents, for anyone seeking to strengthen the social fabric of American communities, and for those involved in programming for youth and adult activities. ** To donate $3 to Milwaukee Community Sailing Center’s COMPASS program, which introduces at-risk children and their parents or guardians to sailing . . . just continue to check-out from this page. (The Center won U.S. Sailing’s 2009 award for "Outstanding Outreach” and is a national leader in promoting sailing as a lifelong pastime.) The "price" of the book given here ($25) reflects the normal list price of $22 plus your $3 contribution. Your contribution will be forwarded to the Center by the publisher and author Nick Hayes. If you decide not to make this contribution, click here to go instead to the Saving Sailing book's regular page. Nick Hayes is a market researcher and partner at the consulting firm FiveTwelve Group, and is active in the Milwaukee sailing scene. He has studied sailing, sailors, and sailing clubs for years, and interviewed over 1,200 sailors worldwide since 2003 for this book. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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