DEPARTING
Whichever way you look at it 28 years in the same job is a long time! On January the 3rd 2012 this old donkey goes into retirement, I’m finally hanging up my managerial windsurfing Boots ( Atan Hot Mistral ones of course! Sorry advertising old habits die hard!) And I am making way for much younger and more enthusiastic owners. Sam and Emma will be taking the business over next year and I hope you will give them all the support and help that you have given me over the past quarter of a century.
With a new couple at the helm the club will be able to grow and prosper and I wish you all well in the future. Not that I am totally disappearing, Pauline and I will split ourselves between our Lodge in Tenby and when we are back at home I can be found in a small damp corner of Brogborough cultivating a small patch of rare Thistle plants (sorry bit of an in joke)
Or should the wind reach the required strength (not too little and not too much) I may be seen sporting an inflatable Zimmer frame with an 8.5 Tushingham Lightning aboard and attempt to carve a perfect turn on it, without of course actually planing out!
Here’s wishing you all long and happy years windsurfing at Brogborough, the future looks bright
HAVE FUN!
Tony and Pauline
ARRIVING
We would like to say a big hello, and big thank you for the warm welcome we have already received from many of you! We both understand that the prospect of change brings doubt in many people’s mind, however as we pick up the reigns and take over from Tony and Pauline’s positions of ‘best jobs in the world’ we would like to put your mind at rest. We are not here to reinvent the wheel, we will be merely changing the tyre, as we all know the club house could do with a ‘winter clean’.
A lit tle bit about Us...
Sam : (aka Hugh’s Grandson) I am a well weathered windsurfer, having first learnt to sail here at Brogborough as a teenager, and I’m sure many of you will remember me especially if you went to Dahab 2006. I was the first cadet member of that time, being one of the youngest non family members. I have since kept up my keen interest in windsurfing, and decided that I wished for it not only to be a hobby, but also a dream to work towards. I am currently in my final year of studying for a Ba Hons degree in Extreme Sports Management at Southampton Solent University, and very much enjoying learning all the aspects needed for the successful running of a business in the industry. Being able to take over from Tony with the position of ‘Best Job in the World’ has been a dream come true, and I look forward to not only having my job and hobby combined, but also in meeting a whole new group of friends involved at the club, however, “behind every great man there's a great woman” at which point let me introduce you to Emma, who will be very much a part of Brogborough life filling the role that Pauline as played for so many years supporting Tony
Emma: Having grown up with an interest with all thing water associated I was more often than not in the water. I was introduced to kayaking, rowing, and sailing as a child in guides and scouts. I took up surfing, and wakeboarding as a teenager, and carried on throughout university. I also realised that I wanted to keep my career and hobbies close, and that a career in watersports was the dream! I am a recent graduate from Southampton Solent University, having studied a Ba Hons in Watersports Studies and Management. Throughout my three years studying I worked and volunteered within the industry, teaching disabled waterskiing, and as an activity instructor for young people. On meeting Sam I was shown the errors of my ways (in terms of sports) and turned to windsurfing. I am looking forward to not only having the ‘Best Job in the World’, but also hoping that my tea and cake making skills can match that of Pauline! I look forward to meeting you all, and learning all the things you have to teach!
We are both relatively new to this, and help and advice would be greatly appreciated, so any advice or questions will be openly accepted. As a wise man once said, “no one said it would always be easy, but it will always be worth it” and as we both believe, better a bad day by the water than a good day in an office!
Sam and Emma
