Perfect Sailing Club ideas

Originally posted by pompeysailor If you could design your perfect sailing club what would it have. (realistic pls!) So far we have the following ideas: * Professional Admin, Bar, Bosun and P/T RO - to keep the club organised and running * Sailors do 2 duties per year - RO, RIB or Bar - its not the end of the world! * Wednesday Evening Racing - for people who cant get out at weekends * Friday Evening Racing- for people who cant get out at weekends * Sunday Racing - 2x Races in the morning - 10:30am & 11:30 - so not a whole day commitment * Facilities / Activities for 'other halves" and Children to WANT to visit the sailing club, but not necessarily sail. * Kids Coaching / Learn to sail * Working alongide a Sailing school that encourages people to join the SC. * Number of exciting club boats to sail - nothing like a modern wayfarer etc. * Great Caterers * Bar open evenings and weekends with Social Events * End of Year Prize Giving / Social * Racing on time * Good beer after racing * Adult coaching * Decent boatpark and launching * Clean and modern changing rooms and showers * Club proactive on social media - promoting and keeping everyone updated

That would be HISC then. OK, no Friday evening racing.

Originally posted by Pierre Originally posted by Chris 249 My brother's club has; Two or three bars, open about 12+ hours per day, every day. No duties Professional (I think) or volunteer RC Free boat storage Free BBQs, although you may have to buy the beer at cheap prices Nice grassed rigging areas Big car carpark Clean and modern changing rooms (if I recall correctly) Fast boats Activities for some other halves A couple of types of full catering, about 12 hours per day, 7 days a week A stretch of flat water about 20m x 2-3m straight off the rigging area. Cheap loans for some boats Arranged sponsorship for some boats About 125 pounds prize money for a weekly personal handicap win, IIRC, plus cash for places. About 125 pounds prize money for a weekly line honours win, IIRC, plus cash for places. About 25 pounds paid every time a boat in the main class finishes a weekend race And they pay your national association fees. Oh, and subsidise your regatta costs Membership is......free to boat owners and volunteers, about 40 pounds for crew. It's not sponsored by a gazillionaire, but by lots of OAPs and locals throwing money into the one armed bandits and bars. Not my scene, but it has advantages. Smug b*stard

Edited by Chris 249 - 03 Mar 17 at 9:54pm

Originally posted by Sam.Spoons..... Anyway I stand by my original statement, if you have a keelboat at one club, a dinghy at another, and a house on the Solent coast you have substantially more disposable than I do. Not that I'm complaining mind you, I like living where I do and I have a caravan on the coast which costs me about the same as the annual subs for my local Golf Club). Chuck in a couple of cheap boats and I'm a happy bunny. [/QUOTE I used to regularly sail on 3 boats, one of which I owned. Don't need a caravan on the coast. Haven't got time for another sport like golf. Wages in the Solent area are actually lower than the Midlands in some fields, certainly generally lower than M4 corridor or Cambridge in my field. Nice houses can be expensive, but there are some perfectly OK places within cycling distance of Chichester Harbour or Southampton Water which are no more than the national average. And there's always Gosport.... A lot of Solent area clubs have peopl

I used to regularly sail on 3 boats, one of which I owned.
Don't need a caravan on the coast.
Haven't got time for another sport like golf.

Wages in the Solent area are actually lower than the Midlands in some fields, certainly generally lower than M4 corridor or Cambridge in my field.
Nice houses can be expensive, but there are some perfectly OK places within cycling distance of Chichester Harbour or Southampton Water which are no more than the national average.
And there's always Gosport....

A lot of Solent area clubs have people running small yachts on a modest budget. Maybe that's part of our club culture and a big difference from inland attitudes. We also have clubs with several generations of some families and people in their 50s who joined as Cadets and have always paid their sub ever since.
It's not all ideal but it damps out the peaks and troughs I think.

Originally posted by iGRF Originally posted by turnturtle indeed - if I had to pick one part of this country I'd choose to live in - all other factors mitigated courtesy of that genuine dead uncle billionaire from Nigeria - it would probably be Kent.   Access to civilisation via the M20 into London or Gatwick into anywhere else.   Coastal sailing for anything N-SWly, inland for winter sailing Damn close to the tunnel to drive to the Alps for the weekend.....   locals are a bit weird though, the short ones anyway  Kent is indeed an excellent county for all the reasons noted, unfortunately of late the rest of the world appears to have spotted it and DFL's (Down from Lunnon) are driving the price of property through the bloody roof. It's getting Sandbanks stupid in some spots and our roads and general overcrowding thanks to 'developers' cashing in on the profits housebuilding down here offers. There are two thousand houses going up within a two mile radius of where I live, with a further two- three hundred around the lake where I sail. There are fourteen thousand scheduled to a 'new town' between here and Ashford and literally every plot of land has an application for planning either in process or recently passed. The Entire seafront is slated for housing development almost the entire length of the Shepway coast and the North Coast is already priced out of most locals purses. So Kent was an excellent spot but I'm sorry to say not for much longer, personally I'm looking at Norfolk the communication between it and the rest of the UK is sufficiently sluggish to deter commuters and there's not a lot of industrialisation up there, it is also the place with the closest weather pattern to us in the dry and sunny South East.

a 1000 acre indoor pool, with fans providing variable wind strengths, constant temperature, warm water