I am building a new web site for the sailing club and have decided to see if there is any interest from our Young Sailors in a junior section. You can find a starter example page here. Let all our Young Sailors see this please and give me some feedback (from the link on the page or via email).

many thanks
Steve

Hi Steve!
I'm all for the new web site!!! I've got a vote for the Kool Kielder Kids Forum (my name for it). I'm quite keen on games or links to sailing games. This is just for the moment, I going to get some more ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FROM ROSIE THUMWOOD

Rosie - thank you! Kool Kielder Kids it is then. Let me know of any games you want me to link to and I will put them somewhere on the Junior web site. Thanks.

Steve

In the course of helping R find what she has in mind(never an easy task - as you can imagine) I came across the Helfor River Children's sailing Trust site

www.hrcst.org.uk/website/htm/aboutus.htm

which seems to have good sailing info in a child friendly format. Good images and not too many extra words (just useful ones)

Kirstie

This is a better link! The How to sail pages are very clear

http://www.hrcst.org.uk/website/htm/reference.htm

Kirsti - many thanks tere are some good ideas here. I can't use any of the content directly as it is copyrighted but we can develop some of the ideas.

Thanks

Steve

Here is a potential link from the KWSC Junior Website. It is the best knot web site I have come across.

CLICK HERE to enjoy!

Tim

thats an excellent site on knots Tim, really brightened my dinner time

Tim, Kirstie - these are excellent examples of information I can refer to on the Junior Web Site I will also include Julie's young sailors 'booklets as a resource and we should start to build a good source of junior info. Keep these ideas coming please everyone.

Steve

There is also animated knots for scouts which looks a bit more child friendly but not as good in some other ways.

There is also an RYA acitivty sheet derived from the Go Sailing Book - can't find it through the RYA - but I have a hard copy we could scan and you can download it from here ...

http://www.maidenheadsc.org.uk/main/downloads/SailingDinghyWorkSheet.pdf

I'll work out the linking thing one day!

Find out abut the 'linking thing' at te new web site ('How To') which you can find at this page. Its also in the Home menu.

We love the idea of the kids website! We would like a "junior forum" if it is possible. That way we could keep up to date with each other with regards to how we are getting on with our sailing. We could swap tips and ideas with each other without "butting in" on the "adult" conversations. More ideas to follow!!!!

Excuse the U48R in my message, mum typed the posting code in the wrong page!!!!!

Ignore last message, my message didn't get sent. It should have read:-
I love the idea of the site. Could we have some sailing related games and maybe some sailing quizes put on the site to help us learn and improve our sailing.

Do any of the other Kool Kielder Kids, out there, like our ideas for our own forum and possible quiz's?