This is in spite of the fact that you have one of the greatest beaches in the world for this wonderful sport and people used to come from far and wide to events there.
You have some of the champion sandyachters living in your area– men such as Phil Wolstencroft who was British Junior Champion by the time he was 15 and went on to win trophies. Most of the founding fathers - and mothers - of the sport hail from the area.
Fylde International Sandyacht Club has gone from being one of the best known and busiest in the world to one of the cinderellas of the sport.
Yet thousands of people are involved in this sport right around the world – and it has the potential to attract even more.
For all the speeds the yachts can achieve it's a relatively safe sport. One fatality is clearly one too many but what happened was a one off. The pilot and the Fylde International Sand Yacht Club were exonerated of any blame in the death of young mother Carole Cruz, back in 2002. What happened was tragic.
But that's almost seven years ago now. Just look at how many have died in yachting incidents at sea or wind surfing or sky diving or kite buggies sailing since? Do we ban all that, too? Look at the death rate on golf courses – do we ban that?
This is a sport with the potential to go olympian. The sport needs to come home, back where it belongs, to St Annes.
The irony is that sandyachting is, at heart, a sport the whole family can enjoy, either by taking part, or observing.
So, as someone would welcome the chance to race there, I'd really urge Fylde Council to support any proposals to re-establish sand yachting.
I know that that the Trax Group which leases the club building has prepared a £2.5m windsports centre (pictured) – and this could extend to sandyachting as well as kite surfing and kite buggying and other wind sports.
We all have lessons to learn but surely by now the time has come to move on, put the past behind us, prepare for a bright new future, and build on your local expertise.