Coastal Powerboat courses

Hi we used to do PB2s for non members at £200 at my club (South Coast), which undercut the commercial places. It was a good way of making a few quick bucks once in a while. However, we don't do it anymore. For various reasons. Firstly, we concluded that the primary reason for having a training school is to bring people into sailing and into the club, not fund raising. The training school is entirely volunteer run and if people start putting a lot of time into what are basically semi commercial ventures then there is a risk you undermine their commitment to volunteering - most of us do it because we enjoy teaching sailing. Secondly, our resources are limited, in terms of total numbers of volunteer hours, numbers of trained powerboat instructors etc, and we've decided that what we have available for powerboat training is better spent on getting members who are going to be taking the power boats out on club sailing days trained up to L2 and safety boat.