Entry Fees

Originally posted by Do Different I can't see what the beef is, it is two days, right? £10 per head per day and nine quid for a meal AND some of the proceeds go a respected sailing charity.

Edited by Paramedic - 11 Dec 16 at 9:06am

Adult tickets at the local cinema are 9.95 each
Local Theatre tickets are 13.00 per adult for Jane Eyre
A pint of beer is £4.00 + down south. So a night out with the lads is god knows how much.
Georgie Fame at the local venue is £23.00 each (Jools Holland £40.00)

I suppose travelling to an open might whack the cost up a bit.......always useful to have a comparison with other forms of leisure.

Edited by transient - 11 Dec 16 at 4:25pm

Its all very well all this bleating, but its clear that very few people do all the winter events as a series. Instead the vast majority just do one or two, and presumably they make their choices by location and the individual character of the event.

The Bloody Mary is and always has been a massive everyone in pursuit round a complex course, often featuring spectacular mark pileups.

The Grafham Grand Prix is a much more conventional series featuring separate courses.

And one of the different things about the Tiger Trophy is and always has been the Saturday evening black tie meal with various charity aspects attached, and I think usually features a younger entry than most of the others - at least when I've been there.

Even though black tie events are to say the very least of it not my thing (never dressed up like that in my life and never intend to) I think its a very good thing that the events do maintain their individual character, and if the club thinks that bundling in the meal will help maintain the different character of the event then all power to them. The last thing we need is for every event to be pretty much the same. How boring would that be?

People will vote with their feet, or so to speak. Despite the slightly eye watering (to me) entry fees at Rutland, I have seen a few Open events (single handed) being in the £40 range. They are inclined to charge right up to the point that enough people stop coming. It's a bit like football tickets prices, there seem constant displeasure the prices of tickets for some of the top Premiership team, however they are still selling out week in week out.

I can't for the life of me remember the cost of entry fees back in the day, but they were never considered excessive and I'm sure we would all have probably spent more at the bar, then again lots of windsurfing events back then were sponsored so that helped keep the costs down, they could even have been foc but then you'd never have known how many to cater for and I suspect that is the case if you're putting on a black tie dinner.

I must say the thing I'm most surprised about reading on this thread somebody I always regarded as establishment and maybe even a bit stuffy in JimC, it comes as a total shock he's never dressed for dinner, I don't think I've ever been to a dinner dance and not black tied up, there might have been the occasional board shorts below, but theyve pretty much always been black tie, even the H&SSC annual do's and to include that in the entry fee for 58 quid doesn't actually seem that unreasonable to me, then again I don't sail a GP14.