Perfect Sailing Club ideas

BTW my ideal club has these 5 'essential' things

1. has tidal waters combining river/estuary with a nice big open patch but always has enough water for 2-3 races each Sunday starting at say 10am and finishing about 2-3pm.

2. has no trees, hills, sky-scrapers or other crap on shore messing up the breeze

3. has a sandy beach and a nice gently sloping slipway with ample pontoons for the club rescue and committee boat as well as the racers

4. has a decent bar with a galley and nice changing rooms with showers that work and ample benches, clothes hanging spaces and a drying room which can be locked overnight so people can leave their kit in there to dry overnight during 2 day opens

5. has 2 day open meetings so people can come with their families and friends and enjoy it even if they live too far away to come every weekend - otherwise what's the point of creating the 'perfect sailing club' ?

last but by no means least - in extreme light winds, a system to generate a nice F3 SW would be very welcome !!

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

Ha we've had them ensconced here for some time but no quite ironically the developments are largely taking place on former barracks. Large tracts of army land having been released to Wimpey et al.

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

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.

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.