RYA Wokebomb

The stats are pretty much incomprehensible to anybody but a statistician  and I'll bet they cost a fortune to prepare... 

The fact his is even a forum thread is reason to acknowledge it is required

CASC clubs have had this for years, you can't refuse anyone who wants to join, even, if they can't afford the subs, you can't even sanction members who refuse to do their duty.

It actually goes very deep in sailing in the uk.
One very Important discrepancy that we have noted is the massive sex discrepancy on voting rights within one of the clubs I am a member of.
Each family membership only has one vote who is registered when they join.
Family membership is one of the largest categories.
This has led to 80% of the voting members being male. The female members have been left with no ability to affect change. This was noted because there are so few female members on our committee.
There has been a discussion to possibly grant a second vote to family memberships to help address this.

What do other clubs do?

Andy

Good on the RYA.  I am generally dismissive of whatever “woke” means, but it is time for our sport to move on from the attitudes of 1950’s (despite my strap line).  I followed a similar thread on a ski forum following a pretty crass item on Ski Sunday about ethnicity and reflected that sailing seems to be a similarly WASP activity.  So if the RYA, who have no doubt paid consultants to produce this report and policy statement, well done.  It doesn’t take very long to read it and the concepts are neither difficult to comprehend or implement.  My only caveat, and this applies to a host of WASPish sports is that, are there factors apart from the barriers of cost and class that make sailing unattractive to “diversity” groups which will never make the sport appealing to them?