Done It!

[claymore]

After 3 or 4 years of brinkmanship, I've plucked up the courage to not renew my membership of the yacht club. So - I'm £85 better off. I wonder if I'll miss not going there - I called in once last year and didn't make it at all in 2002.

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[Joe_Cole]

We need to be told

Will they miss you? /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[claymore]

Re: We need to be told

Oh bitterly I expect - my banter and badinage was the talk of the place and my generosity the stuff of legends. I thought at one point I was up for honorary membership on account of the sheer magnetic dynamism of my personality. I expect they'll be sending the begging letters round from the committee fairly soon - in fact, probably a deputation offering me a reduced level of membership fee just to persuade me to stay. I'll resist of course, in my finest cool but haughty manner.
OK?

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[paulineb]

Re: We need to be told

you think ? /forums/images/icons/tongue.gif

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[LadyInBed]

You can still call in as a visiting yachtsman /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[Joe_Cole]

Re: We need to be told

As you obviously won't have an outlet for all that generosity perhaps you would like to send it in my direction?

Notes only please, none of that loose change.

Joe

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[AndrewB]

But can you?

Visiting yachtsmen, making use of the facilities of a club for free, are expected to be members of another club. Its essentially a quid pro quo arrangement.

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[claymore]

Re: But can you?

Aye - well I've retained my membership of Clyde Cruising Club so I guess I'm OK for the odd pee within the hallowed portals of any club I choose to visit. As long as the committee are all 103 and wear blazers with dribblies down their lapels and ties

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[claymore]

Re: We need to be told

Hmm - will you take scottish notes then?

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[claymore]

Re: We need to be told

ye wee minx - of all the people who didn't need to ask that question you were the one. And is it not yourself who is missing me all this while and never a word to the Minister?

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[Joe_Cole]

Re: We need to be told

Certainly.....but I'll be needing more of them!

Joe

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[LadyInBed]

Re: quid pro quo

Maybe with the sniffy ones but not so for the general run of the mill clubs, I have always found them to be most welcoming.
I would not want to go to a club frequented by the blazer and yachting cap brigade.

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[AndrewB]

Re: quid pro quo

Sounds more like freeloading to me. But then, everyone knows that yachties - specially those who support clubs - are just a bunch of arrogant rich bastards who can well afford to subsidise others.

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[Aeolus_IV]

Re: quid pro quo

I see no smiles on your post, so I can only assume that you are serious, and so I feel offended by it.

I support our Yacht Club, it is the only on in the harbour, indeed the only yacht club you can get to by yacht on this bit of coast. I do not believe that I am arrogant, I know I am not rich and as I know both my parents I am certainly not a bastard.

So why do I do it? Because it gives a focus to those boat owners in the harbour (motor or sail) for social events, somewhere to have a cheaper beer and good food than some of the surrounding commerical outlets with like minded people. It also gives visiting yachts somewhere to go where (I hope) they will feel welcomed - though we are perhaps a little difficult to find.

Claymore has done what he has for his own good reasons - but I hope that this is not a sign of the times. The "local yacht club" at your destination after a passage (or just a short cruise) is a part of the culture of sailing, somewhere to find out whats about and wheres things are from people who understand where you are comming from.

Well, thats the theory. It would be a much poorer environment if there were no yacht clubs anywhere, every destination would be a cold welcome with few or anyone interested you as a visiting yachtsman (or yachtswoman). Not all clubs will suit all people - certain clubs can probably just be ignored by the majority of us, but there are normally alternatives. But the bulk of clubs are surely run for the benefit of ourselves by people like ourselves. Even Claymore said he might use the facilities, from time to time, but he couldn't if it wasn't there...

Enough said, this is a discussion which has been aired before.

It's alright Claymore, I'll not hold you personally responsible, I'm not about tar everyone with the same brush /forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

Regards, Jeff.

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[ParaHandy]

Lying git ... !!

youse wuz blackballed fer contavenshun o' ra dress code "nae grundies in ra club hoose" ...

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[Sybarite]

Re: But can you?

<< Its essentially a quid pro quo arrangement >>

Cheap for a professional ??

John

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[claymore]

Re: quid pro quo

Hmm
I support a yacht club, I'm not a bastard and it would be a brave man would call me that to my face. Thirdly, I am far from wealthy.
So did I get the wrong end of the stick here, is that what you meant me to understand?

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[claymore]

Re: Lying git ... !!

an ef ye'd no bin lyin oan yer back, parlitic - naebody wid hae bin ra wiser ye big daft eejit

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[Jack]

Can ye no see

the bulge in the man's cheek? Looks a bit soft for a gobstopper ;-)

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[tcm]

SWMBOnomics

This was an excellent start for 2004. However, being better off by a measly £85 is hardly going to provide a suitable lifestyle for gentlemanly pursuits for the forthcoming year, is it? I doubt it.

I really think that you should have taken the opportunity to speak with Mrs tcm regarding financial matters during your recent trip to London. She would have advised you to follow our example and find other yacht clubs not to join. This would save you a lot more, and further - you could unilaterally decide now not to join them under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES for the forthcoming ten years - making you better off by a whacking £850, instead of a poxy £85.

Later, you'll be able to wander around boat shows as I did last month and save a massive £400,000 by not buying a beneteau 57, and then at dusseldorf i also decided against a CNB 75 - saving £1.5million quid, and making me a total of almost 2million quid better off and it's only February!

As she says, a bird not in the hand is worth easily as much as two that aren't in the bush either, possibly a lot more.