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H2 
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 Topic: Alternative to sailing clubs?Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 9:03am |
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One learning from lockdown for me has been the location of public slipways which I have been using a lot to exercise with one other person. Its been fun sailing from different locations and I have actually really enjoyed doing close boat tuning and informal races. I have learnt a great deal more than turning up to a club and racing around the cans. Got me thinking - if there was a location that I could store my boat securely and then when I wanted to go sailing I just take it to a nearby slip and go sailing would I prefer that to being a member of a club with all the duties and BS?? I do see that there are pros and cons of both but for me, lockdown has shone a light on how I might prefer to become a user of the public slipway! Would be interested if others have been doing likewise.
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Rupert
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 9:09am |
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Move to France? Plenty of public boat parks over there!
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 9:19am |
Yeah - whilst I voted to remain so am not a "little englander", I do have a healthy dislike for the French. Happy to remain in the UK and use our huge plethora of public slipways - had no idea there were so prevalent and well kept!
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423zero
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 10:08am |
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You could put it in a caravan storage yard. I would miss the 'Last of the summer wine' humour, always something amusing, if you got the right bunch of people you could probably have a 'three men in a boat' type of day from the public slip.
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 12:52pm |
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I also found during lockdown that I did not really need the benefits of being a member of a club in order to go sailing, however I am looking forward to getting back to club racing soon, as well as drinking a beer from a barrel with my mates.
My concern for your plan is that if we all do it the club structure will collapse, resulting in no club racing, no open meetings and no championships. Bit like nomadic sailors who enter competitions as RYA but make no contribution to the infrastructure that they take advantage of. Also many clubs are sitting in really nice locations with good access to the water, and if these fail, then the sites will get redeveloped and those stretches of water will be lost forever to the dinghy community.
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Sam.Spoons
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 12:59pm |
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I suspect H2 is in a minority though and most of us will continue to enjoy the benefits being a member of a club bring. Given that the cost is relatively small I'm not worrying too much that I only got half a years sailing last year and I've saved as much by not buying a new jib for the Spice (which I didn't sail at all last year).
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 3:26pm |
Good points - having a few beers on the beach or at a nearby pub does not require a sailing club to exist and frankly, I probably prefer drinking outside of most sailing clubs which tend to be rather dead socially. However - I do take your point that being a member helps maintain an infrastructure that we all need for opens and championships to take place. Perhaps under my vision some of these current clubs might transition to being boat storage rather than sailing clubs - people will still need somewhere to keep their boats after all
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 3:29pm |
Hey Sam - yup suspect I am a minorty but was interested to see if others had the same experience. Its not actually a cost thing for me - much more hedonistic than that, its just about a realisation that life is finite so why spend time doing stuff that we do not enjoy when we could maximise time on what we like doing. Lockdown has shone a light on the fact that I would prefer to spend my time on focused boat tuning, informal racing, opens and championships rather than club racing!
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 5:04pm |
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Surely the boat is on a trailer, so you can park it on the drive and go to any public slip anywhere you like?
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H2
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Posted: 18 Mar 21 at 5:16pm |
Yes it is but its a faff - if there was a boat park nearby I could just drag the boat there without undercover for example and driving with the boat on the motorway is slow and you have to be more alert etc.
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