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I've been a member of Midland Sailing club since 2002- long enough to be asked onto the commitee and I now have the honour of being Midland Sailing Club's  Commodore!

In February 2007 I bought an old Enterprise Dinghy No: 5704. On discovering that her original name was 'Tooktoolong' I restored this most appropriate name to her. It took too long for me to discover the joys of sailing, took too long for me to buy a boat and it takes far too long for me to finish races! She was actually named 'Tooktoolong' because it took such a long while to build her. According to club legend she was constructed from timbers from the Grand Theatre Wolverhampton. On hearing this I had just had to trumpet her name. From having a load of luvvies treading her boards she now has one fat luvvie sitting on them!

Although I own an Enterprise I love to sail any sort of boat, big or small. I do miss a spinnaker but with the large sail area of an Ent I do enjoy passing boats with a collapsed kite flailingin the wind - mentioning no names of course!

If you've anything you want to discuss about the club, have ideas for boosting membership, or are just looking for a bit of advice, then do please get in touch with me.

Paul Leather

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