Friday afternoon saw Alan and I cleaning, repairing, pumping up tires and generality titivating the publicity caravan in readiness for an early start on Saturday.
Saturday was a little dull with quite strong winds, but the publicity team, being of stronger stuff duly made their way to the Harrowbeer event at Yelverton. We parked near the dispersal where they had opened the air raid shelter to visitors and then the fun began. It begged the question 'how many glider pilots does it take to put up a gazebo?' answer - Mike Jardine, Martin Cropper, Chris Matten, Karon Matten, Alan Carter and of course, myself.
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| How many glider pilots does it take to put up a gazebo? |
Meanwhile, Martin Smith rigged his T31 beside us and we were pleased to see a brief visit by club members Steve Lewis, John Howe and Jeff Cragg. The day went well with children going off with a smile on their little faces after sitting in the T31 and the parents being told to buy a draw ticket or they won't get their child back ... luckily they all bought tickets!!
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| The T31 was not lonely for long. |
On Sunday we moved the caravan nearer to the other exhibits and after the gazebo was put up in double quick time, we had a slow but steady flow of visitors. Earlier that morning Alan Carter had taken the rudder off the K8 and was already working on it and the only way I could get him to come to Harrowbeer was to let him bring the rudder with him! Well that kept him and Colin Boyd amused in the caravan ALL day fixing it. Meanwhile, outside, Martin Cropper, Rick Wiles, Dave Bourchier and myself was busy harassing the public into taking leaflets and buying draw tickets.
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| The Sunday pitch |
All in all, the weekend was a very useful marketing and publicity tool. We had one person wanting to book a group evening and we sold some 80 draw tickets for the open day, not to mention all the leaflets we gave out. A big thank you to all that helped.
Sandra
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