Difficult Clubs to join

[byron]

Excluding both the Royal Yacht Squadron and the New York Yacht Club. Which clubs does the Forum denizens consider the most difficult to join.
I vote for the Thames Power Squadron who are in my view also the most secretive with membership by invitation only.

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[tripleace]

"The "Cleeve Lock" Mafia is a very difficult club to join

by invitation and DNA testing

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[Geoffs]

The Royal Motor Yacht Club in Poole is a bit like that, I believe. But, my contact with them has shown them to be a very pleasant and friendly bunch.

Old Chinese proverb 'Man who sail boat into rice field, soon get into paddy'

 

[Walther]

The Royal Cruising Club and the Cruising Club of America are both easy to join if your father or brother-in-law is on the Committee; otherwise, forget it.

 

[Seastoke]

The Royal Cruising Club and the Cruising Club of America are both easy to join if your father or brother-in-law is on the Committee; otherwise, forget it.

If they don’t want you, Do you really want to join them.

 

[Portofino]

Parachute regiment.
You need to pass P company.

 

[Daydream believer]

You need to pass P company.

I can pass wind. Surely for a sailor that should count for something ?

 

[KREW2]

To quote Groucho Marks, "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

 

[Greg2]

A blast from the past and surely something of a record - resurrection of a thread from 20 years ago by byron (RIP)!

The sad thing is that I remember it from way back then but can’t recall what I had for breakfast today! ?

 

[Daydream believer]

The sad thing is that I remember it from way back then but can’t recall what I had for breakfast today! ?

That reminds me
My mother was being questioned by a doctor, when being examined for Alzheimer's.
He asked what she had for breakfast that morning. Quick as a flash she said, " Sod what I had for breakfast, I want to know what's coming for tea" ?

 

[Dino]

There was a video going round a few months ago of Conor McGregors father Tony waving an application form for the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire. He was basically telling his son that he was going to apply for family membership. Can you imagine the kickback from the membership

 

[chrislaw1968]

Parachute regiment.
You need to pass P company.

It wasn't so hard , you just need to keep pushing on and not quit.

 

[Portofino]

It wasn't so hard , you just need to keep pushing on and not quit.

I know .

 

[Seastoke]

That reminds me
My mother was being questioned by a doctor, when being examined for Alzheimer's.
He asked what she had for breakfast that morning. Quick as a flash she said, " Sod what I had for breakfast, I want to know what's coming for tea" ?

Well I went the doctors monday , he says you have to stop masterbating I says why , he says because it’s hard to examine you.

 

[Mr Googler]

Mile high

 

[john_morris_uk]

Parachute regiment.
You need to pass P company.

Commando Forces. Some who passed P company didn’t stand a chance.

 

[Portofino]

Commando Forces. Some who passed P company didn’t stand a chance.

Corrected it for you “ some who allegedly passed P company……” Why would you do both ? If you passed P coy you effectively entered the Paras and went on to Brize Norton for airborne training .Alongside a few wannabe marines and SAS chasing there wings .

Maybe P coy cast offs later tried the marines ?

 

[DavidJ]

A blast from the past and surely something of a record - resurrection of a thread from 20 years ago by byron (RIP)!

The sad thing is that I remember it from way back then but can’t recall what I had for breakfast today! ?

My goodness yes Byron. If I’ve got the right chap I went to his place once and he had his boat at the bottom of his garden on the Thames.

 

[Greg2]

My goodness yes Byron. If I’ve got the right chap I went to his place once and he had his boat at the bottom of his garden on the Thames.

Yes, he did and hosted various forumites I understand.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Corrected it for you “ some who allegedly passed P company……” Why would you do both ? If you passed P coy you effectively entered the Paras and went on to Brize Norton for airborne training .Alongside a few wannabe marines and SAS chasing there wings .

Maybe P coy cast offs later tried the marines ?

No correction needed. I passed commando training in 1996 and worked with and for commando forces on and off for the next 18 years. I was also on the staff at CTCRM Lympstone for three years so know a bit about it from the inside. I met a few marines who also did P company. (Usually in order to be on exchange with some particular job in airborne that needed the credibility of having done P company itself. ). You’re probably aware that if you’re commando trained you’re exempt P company as a precursor for going on your ‘jumps course’.
Anyway, there were certainly some genuinely P company qualified soldiers who failed commando training. It’s a rather different course which requires upper body strength as well as CV fitness and the usual determination and mind over matter attitude. The all arms course is brutal, and I’m glad I went through commando training by being blistered onto a recruit troop for eight months.
Putting my cheap sleight against paras to one side, my true feelings are that neither course is easy and I have a great respect for anyone who passes either commando training or p company. They’re not easy clubs to join.