Perfect Sailing Club ideas

I wasn't really being flippant... David Lloyd manage it and they don't have the beautiful surroundings that most sailing clubs do.

During my teenage years (long, long ago), the whole family spent pretty much every weekend of the season at the sailing club. Add in a long weekend extended thru half term based at a sailing venue, and a summer holiday also focussed on sailing somewhere on the south coast and I find it odd to turn up for one race as the return on the time invested in travelling, getting rigged and changed and undoing it all at the end just isn't worth it. Along the same lines I find it difficult to justify dragging the boat out of its comfortable home for a one-day event. 

Originally posted by A2Z ... Actually, I think the original list covers the most pertinent points. Keep the racing to weekday evenings and Sunday mornings. Spreading racing out over half the weekend is a huge turnoff for me.

Sunday morning racing is OK, but I quite like two races with lunch in between.
It's far more sociable.
It's worth driving further if you're getting a proper day out.

My old club was tidal, which at least rang the changes. One week you might get a morning race both days, next week it might be afternoons.
Mornings on the coast can be light wind. It's annoying to have scheduled racing in no wind then do your gardening in a sea breeze.
But if that's when the tide is, there's a lot less argument.

Whatever you do, it won't suit everyone.

[QUOTE=Rupert] No bloody children running around, getting in the way, enjoying themselves, reminding me that I'm an old codger with a sore back and bad knees who's sailing is only getting worse, while they show off and have a good time. And certainly no teenagers sailing too fast on the water and using the club as a dating agency off it.
Oh, and no women, either. Except in the galley, of course.
QUOTE]

Thank you, it's been a crap day.

The point made about multiple club membership and people in the Solent having loadsamoney is probably true, but a lot of sea clubs are a bargain compared to big lakes where the water board often take a hefty amount of a club's income.  I was a member of Lee on Solent SC for a couple of years alongside my main club Chew Valley.  LOSSC was a bargain in comparison.  Still trying to remember why I live near Bristol.