Open Meetings

Only ever seen spare bedroom, back gardens and drives offered at CVRDA events, they are all over the country.
Pwllheli for instance from West Midlands, you are talking fifty pounds in fuel, more if you need to drive about. Camping going to be at least fifteen pounds per night. Food probably thirty pounds per the weekend, assuming organisers pick up lunch, then you may want to go for a meal somewhere, Wetherspoons have a pub in Pwllheli now, add another thirty pounds a night, good thing about Wetherspoons you know what you are going to get and no need to dress up.
Not forgetting beer or wine at the tent.
Then fees for the actual event.
Aberaeron yacht club in the early eighties used to cost a fortune, mainly on drinking, mainly remember it for monster hangovers and informal drink fueled races when normal racing had been abandoned,due to the weather.

Edited by 423zero - 04 Jun 22 at 8:26am

For a long bank holiday weekend open, you are talking at least three hundred, even camping, but cheap if you enjoy it, even typing this is taking me back to one.

Originally posted by Grumpycat Very true it’s a great idea , if people come to the opens. BUT if the higher cost puts people coming and you don’t run the open then no one win . No member benefit and no extra money coming into the club. It’s a fine line to tread .

Edited by Paramedic - 03 Jun 22 at 5:58pm

Quite so JimC. When on the committee I always argued this as a prime reason for running opens or hosting any sort of class visitor request. Giving visitors a warm welcome has to be viewed as an investment in the future of the Club.

A night away at a two day open meeting in the 70’s and 80’s probably presented more optimistic possibilities than in the Tinder driven 2020’s   … best if you sailed a two person class