Perfect Sailing Club ideas

Originally posted by davidyacht Originally posted by Oli amended and added a few... * Professional Admin, Bar, Bosun, P/T RO and RIB drivers - to keep the club organised and running * Sailors do minimum possible duties per year - ARO, RIB crew * Duty buy out * Wednesday Evening Racing - for people who cant get out at weekends * Friday Evening Racing- for people who cant get out at weekends * Saturday Training / Fun Sailing (not racing) Sunday training & Racing - 2x Races back to back * Facilities / Activities for 'other halves" and Children to WANT to visit the sailing club, but not necessarily sail. * Rowing skiffs and gig, RC Boat racing * Cycle club / Tri events - sail/row/cycle triatlon! * Kids Coaching / Learn to sail * Adult Coaching / Learn to sail * Number of exciting club boats to sail. * Seasonal boat hire for racers to encourange OD fleet Aeros/Zeros/K6 * 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 WPNSA?

Originally posted by transient Originally posted by Rupert I'd want my indoor boat park to have a somewhat lower roofline. How to achieve that without either taking masts down or having it flood I'm not sure. Maybe lock gates down to a lower level indoor pool with slipway and moorings? There's a club just down the road from us that has an indoor boat park with a lowish roof, dismast to park the boat.........It's no wonder that a lot of them sail Lasers, bit of a nuisance otherwise.

Bristol Corinthian used to keep Ents and Merlins indoors.
You get organised eventually.

Add to the wishlist - on site camping/campervan space in a quiet field with a nice view and electric hook-ups and no screeching kids!

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.

Edited by iGRF - 03 Mar 17 at 2:42pm

they might be telling you it's housing .... rumour on the grapevine is it's barracks needed for the post-Brexit border army.