Paying for club racing ?

All 3 clubs I have been a member of didnt charge for club racing. I believe Parkstone does though, but they charge once for the series rather than per race.

At Alton Water on Saturdays do you find very poor turnouts on naff wind days? I can imagine days with a low wind forecast when only a couple of boats turn up!

Pay for a couple of charity meetings - same reason as Jeffers - but we also operate a bursary for the leading cadet so there is a a small amout (about £200) that goes into this

I've been a member of several clubs over the years and never had an additional bill for racing. Paid racing would put a lot of pressure on the RO to 'get it right'. I certainly wouldn't volunteer for RO duties if I knew people had paid to race.

We have a slightly strange situation - AWSC is a commercially run 'sports centre' rather than a sailing club. Racing is run by a mix of paid staff and volunteers from the membership. As an example, our summers Saturday race series consists of two 'round-the-cans' races per day (each about an hour long), members pay £5, visitors pay £7, although members can buy an individual race card for £75 which cover you for most, but not all, the club races over a year. As I've only ever joined this club, I've nothing to compare it with, thus I've no idea if it should be considered as being expensive or not. We do also have some fairly informal racing on Monday and Wednesday evenings which is free to members (Monday, a round-the-cans race with a single start and Wednesday a pursuit over and hour and a quarter). I'm not complaining, but just wondered what the routine was at other venues,

I don't know that its unusual for club members to have to pay the entry fee for open events. After all the prizes have to be paid for. I suppose I can imagine that in a club where most members just went cruising and only a minority raced it might be thought fairer to have an extra fee for racing so the ordinary club members aren't paying for the prizes. I've come across very few clubs like that though: perhaps only those which are on the sea and have their own moorings.