Duties.

Obviously sailing on a small lake where you'll blow ashore in 10 mins or is is a different proposition to sailing on open water (or a huge lake). Windsurfers have historically, looked after themselves much of the time and only a very few join clubs of any kind (usually for access to a local pond).

you.gov says :- "

Membership fees

CASCs can’t charge more than £31 a week for membership, and clubs that charge more than £10 a week must provide help (eg a discount) for people who can’t pay.

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RE duties, at my club doing 2 duties is a condition of membership (not sure if we are still CASC or not). Anyone who fails to show without good reason gets a friendly chat from the duty officer. It doesnt happen that often and there is usually a good reason for it. We do have automated email reminders and the like that go out.

So a typical CASC sailing club can charge £520pa without needing to make any "affordability" arrangements. Minus perhaps the cost of a BA once every few years if they are compulsory. That's not very limiting for most volunteer run dinghy clubs.

Competancy is a bit of an issue.. Last season highlighted it for me, I always assume folk know what they're about and I had a bit of a wake up call early last season. So it's all very well getting volunteers, but sea capable, especially if there's a bit of a sea running, so we turned it around by running some half decent power/safety boat courses. So it can be a bit of a break from the mundane, rescue boat duty, but given some of the incidents include removing Hornets who want to park on the rocks, to towing in becalmed boats against the tide, so we can call on none racers from other club members, but it involves probably a higher level of training than you might have to give for inland water. Especially when even the allegedly highly trained inshore rescue mob often come to grief. As to getting volunteers that do know how to do it, to actually step up, extreme ironic abuse is often levelled at the fairweather types, there isn't really any other way, if you offered a buyout we'd have no-one.