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    Posted: 01 Mar 17 at 8:43pm
If you could design your perfect sailing club what would it have. (realistic pls!)
So far we have the following ideas:

* Professional Admin, Bar, Bosun and P/T RO - to keep the club organised and running
* Sailors do 2 duties per year - RO, RIB or Bar - its not the end of the world!
* Wednesday Evening Racing - for people who cant get out at weekends
* Friday Evening Racing- for people who cant get out at weekends
* Sunday Racing - 2x Races in the morning - 10:30am & 11:30 - so not a whole day commitment
* Facilities / Activities for 'other halves" and Children to WANT to visit the sailing club, but not necessarily sail.
* Kids Coaching / Learn to sail
* Working alongide a Sailing school that encourages people to join the SC.
* Number of exciting club boats to sail - nothing like a modern wayfarer etc.
* Great Caterers
* Bar open evenings and weekends with Social Events
* End of Year Prize Giving / Social
* Racing on time
* Good beer after racing
* Adult coaching
* Decent boatpark and launching
* Clean and modern changing rooms and showers
* Club proactive on social media - promoting and keeping everyone updated

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Post Options Post Options   Quote KazRob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Mar 17 at 9:44pm
Call me old fashioned but cadet/teenage members who get into trouble, raid the canteen/bar, sail amazingly well without trying and generally wind up the oldies up, on and off the water. Different times apparently 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote 423zero Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Mar 17 at 10:14pm
a club just dedicated to sailing dinghies and people who sail them, 
no bar
no restaurant
no shops
no creche
sailing dinghy related facilities only
no dilution of function of clubs purpose "sailing dinghies"
no other sports allowed
no fish murderers
no bird feeders
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Rupert Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Mar 17 at 8:11am
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.





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Sea breezes
Waves.
Beach.
Tractor.
Fast boats.
A wide range of people.
Dinghy park that doesn't look like the Somme.
Changing rooms ditto.
Bar that might occassionally be rumoured to stay open latish?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote turnturtle Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Mar 17 at 9:21am
Proper fleet racing in Aero 9s, D-zeros, OKs, Finns, RS300s (someone else pick one - I'm beyond caring if we all run the same kit) or even Phantoms and 8.1s at a push, racing midweek evenings and Saturday and Dunday mornings - enough take up that 10 boats minimum any time of the year.

Duty buy out options

All within an hours commute of my office



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No clubhouse bores whinging about the PY system, subs, or duties
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Good fleet racing
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Mar 17 at 10:25am
Well I'm quite lucky with the two clubs I frequent they are peopled by and large with decent sorts who tend to pull together, clubs are after all people rather than fabric. However the lake club could do with a bar and better club facilities and the sea club could do with a proper slipway.

The kids we train to carry us in our boats shoulder high and walk into the water until we sail off, sadly are not happy to continue and leave year in year out.
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I think I need to have two or three clubs. You can't fit the full range of classes I love into one club without it becoming too diverse to be as much fun as two or three more specialised clubs. It's just more fun in the bar when you sail boats that everyone can relate to a bit, and it's more fun afloat when you are not trying to weave an F18 cat between yachts and Optis using the same marks.

Getting clubs located within the same area to be complementary to each other (rather than competitive) seems to be a neglected but quite important facet of the sport.





Edited by Chris 249 - 02 Mar 17 at 11:21am
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