Robin
Well-Known Member
As usual John I find myself pretty much in full agreement with you!
Our Golf Club certainly says no jeans, tee shirts or trainers in the main bar or on the course and must have proper golf spiked shoes on the course as well. Scruffier (member) oiks calling in for a quickie can use the Spikes Bar, as can those who cannot wait to change shoes to get the first pint down as they come off the course - or half way round!
Our Yacht Club (South Coast, own marina, 2,500 members, defaced Blue Ensign so well up in the chip on the shoulder man's lists) says 'No wet gear in the bar please'. That is because otherwise some of our less considerate members might just go straight in after dinghy racing in their muddy wetsuits. Oh it also says no dogs in the clubhouse and elsewhere they must be on a lead. Hear Hear to all of that!
It seems to me that much of the reverse snobbery about YCs is from those with vivid imaginations just looking to justify their own decision that a YC is not for them. Nothing wrong with not wanting to join, any more than there is in being a member. However if you go as a visitor or as a guest then you are using private facilities which are generally subsidised, cheaper food and drinks, maybe even cheaper visitor berths/moorings so why quibble about accepting that you don't turn up in the clubhouse for a meal looking like Gordon Brown at a black tie dinner or that you have just returned from a singlehanded circumnavigation in an Avon Redcrest?
Robin
Our Golf Club certainly says no jeans, tee shirts or trainers in the main bar or on the course and must have proper golf spiked shoes on the course as well. Scruffier (member) oiks calling in for a quickie can use the Spikes Bar, as can those who cannot wait to change shoes to get the first pint down as they come off the course - or half way round!
Our Yacht Club (South Coast, own marina, 2,500 members, defaced Blue Ensign so well up in the chip on the shoulder man's lists) says 'No wet gear in the bar please'. That is because otherwise some of our less considerate members might just go straight in after dinghy racing in their muddy wetsuits. Oh it also says no dogs in the clubhouse and elsewhere they must be on a lead. Hear Hear to all of that!
It seems to me that much of the reverse snobbery about YCs is from those with vivid imaginations just looking to justify their own decision that a YC is not for them. Nothing wrong with not wanting to join, any more than there is in being a member. However if you go as a visitor or as a guest then you are using private facilities which are generally subsidised, cheaper food and drinks, maybe even cheaper visitor berths/moorings so why quibble about accepting that you don't turn up in the clubhouse for a meal looking like Gordon Brown at a black tie dinner or that you have just returned from a singlehanded circumnavigation in an Avon Redcrest?
Robin
