Sailing is for posh people

Originally posted by iitick Originally posted by gordon Royal Alfred YC - the club that is at the origin of amateur sailing, the racing rules and so much more. We have never had a clubhouse, but the annual dinner is always in November, always black tie and we always serve game (usually pheasant). Membership fee - €30 a year! Love that tradition, no clubhouse? Toughened up in the Raj eh'. Euros? Modern tinge, like it. Only thirty of the buggers, club for distressed gentlefolk obviously.

In Euros because in Ireland.

I'm pretty sure you are right, that there are far more likely to be poor posh folk there than at a big brazen YC with all the bells and whstles - they are for new money, no class needed.

Originally posted by iitick   We will use the metro of course, you are so old fashioned.

Originally posted by yellowwelly Originally posted by iitick   We will use the metro of course, you are so old fashioned. a city built on stilts on the water, and you'd choose to travel underground in a tunnel like the common rat?

"In Euros because in Ireland.

I'm pretty sure you are right, that there are far more likely to be poor posh folk there than at a big brazen YC with all the bells and whstles - they are for new money, no class needed."

Like all the Royal Clubs (including the RNLI) in Ireland we were founded before we managed to throw of the yoke of 800 years of oppression!

All members of the club are also members of other clubs - some of which are very expensive if not necessarily posh.

New money - now there is a give away phrase revealing a distaste for social mobility! Most of the "old money" left here in 1922, so you could say anyone able to afford yachy club fees in Ireland comes from "new money".

new money buys a brand new 10 grand Phantom