The arrival of two Year 4 classes of school children all eager to learn the art of what makes a boat float and what makes it go had several of our members wracking their brains as to how to explain in simple terms the concept of water displacement and wind flow over sails! As it turned out, the 50 eager faced pupils were somewhat disappointed that we could not produce any wind to demonstrate the boats sailing (the lake was like a mirror!) so we had to entertain them by answering some very interesting questions and doing our best to explain the basics of sailing. Fortunately a few minutes before they had to get back to school the wind picked up enough for us to at least give a few of them a hands on demonstration and then start a race for them to start barracking for 'the blue boat'! We trust they all enjoyed the experience and one day will come back to join us.