UK's Most Expensive Sailing Club

You can get good racing though at clubs on the sea that cost less than £100 to join, as the racing is a result of the enthusiasm of the members. As for the water, it's naturally occurring so doesn't cost anything to maintain, bar a small amount to keep the slipways in good condition etc.

If you compare the cost of it to some of the bigger inland clubs, it is still way higher, and the inland clubs have to pay significant amounts of rent to the water board.

But if there are enough people willing to pay that much, why should the club charge less......

that new club house building is like a hotel! It's incredible. I'm making the most of doing FED week so that I can make the most of all the facilities at very little cost! Of all the other clubs in chichester and langstone harbour it's the only one where you can launch at all states of the tide though i think i'm right in saying. I was a member at Langstone SC for years but you could only sail for a couple of hours either side of high tide which was a bit annoying.

HISC is in a stunning location and certainly the best dinghy club I've ever been to: and I've been to quite a few. I've done a lot of opens there: great facilities, great sailing water inside and outside the harbour and invariably well-run events. I also used to crew regularly for someone at HISC and if there had been an affordable crewing membership I'd have joined: funnily enough I never did. That was well before the new building: it was always an expensive club. That said, the old clubhouse was falling down and the new one has to be paid for somehow.

For those who want smaller and/or cheaper clubs, well there are half a dozen alternatives around Chichester Harbour.

Maybe not old fashioned but not in the same league as HISC.

Admitidly I woul dnever think of paying that much for HI since last time i was there we had to climb in and ou tof scafolding poles and those poles that you can put extra tension on were holding the roof up.

i'd say that they are the best club in the country but i wouldn't want to pay that joining fee!! might have to get a couple of years in quick before i become 24 and need to pay it!