Neil
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I sailed in, paid for a night's mooring and ate and drank at the bar. I was never asked about membership, though when I asked whether the reciprocal agreement with my own club offered any advantage, I was told, "No".
Is there a protocol for visiting a yacht/sailing club?
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I sailed in, paid for a night's mooring and ate and drank at the bar. I was never asked about membership, though when I asked whether the reciprocal agreement with my own club offered any advantage, I was told, "No".
Twister_Ken
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The views are better and there's not usually premiere league kick-bladder on a giant flat screen.
Twister_Ken
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A test of your reading habits.
Royal Brunei and Northern Celebes, anyone?
Royal Brunei and Northern Celebes, anyone?
Lucky Duck
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Sod's Law of the Sea :encouragement:
I never go anywhere without my French to Serbo-Croat Dictionary
DJE
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Neil
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While my club's reciprocal arrangements are only with other "Royal" clubs, the visiting Yachtsperson is welcomed:
12. TEMPORARY MEMBERSHIP
Visiting membership is automatically extended:
To any Member of a recognised yacht club while visiting Dun Laoghaire Harbour by yacht, provided such visitor is signed in by a member of the Committee or the Secretary. Such visiting membership shall be for a maximum of 14 consecutive days. This facility may also be extended in appropriate circumstances to other visitors from recognised overseas yacht clubs.
12. TEMPORARY MEMBERSHIP
Visiting membership is automatically extended:
To any Member of a recognised yacht club while visiting Dun Laoghaire Harbour by yacht, provided such visitor is signed in by a member of the Committee or the Secretary. Such visiting membership shall be for a maximum of 14 consecutive days. This facility may also be extended in appropriate circumstances to other visitors from recognised overseas yacht clubs.
Twister_Ken
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SOD
Senior Officer Dubrovnik wasn't it?
Good man!
Uricanejack
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I have tagged along with a Skipper to a yacht club once or twice many decades ago. Gave up sailing for a while a decade or so to pursue other interests.
I acquired a boat and have even contemplated joining a club. One funny thing is membership gets to very expensive if you are over 40 or 50. I came to the conclusion they just don't want older members. So I have never bothered. I have just naturally assumed they would only be open to members and members of clubs with reciprocal agreements. So I have never visited any.
Which is a pity, I do like talking to sailors.
I acquired a boat and have even contemplated joining a club. One funny thing is membership gets to very expensive if you are over 40 or 50. I came to the conclusion they just don't want older members. So I have never bothered. I have just naturally assumed they would only be open to members and members of clubs with reciprocal agreements. So I have never visited any.
Which is a pity, I do like talking to sailors.
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laika
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I was new in town, didn't do my research before joining and incorrectly assumed that all yacht clubs do pretty similar stuff. Sadly the one I joined organises races and that's it: Not the place to hang about in a bar with cheap drinks chatting to someone who can help you out with your joinery problem in exchange for help with their marine electronics which I kind of thought these clubs were about. I did offer to try and organise a series of practical skills talks but the committee didn't take me up on it. Totally fair enough: that's just what that particular club is about and just not what I was looking for (and the beer's way cheaper in the pub next door).
Robin
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Why does it cost more when you are over 40-50? Are Canadian Yacht clubs like some US ones more concerned with being a swanky dining club business networking opportunity come waterside Country Club than anything really boaty? UK clubs are very much common interest clubs although they might have dining facilities and bars as well. These clubs are usually owned by the membership. Golf clubs are similar in the UK whereas in the US ( I don't know about Canada) again there are either golf societies or 'men's clubs' within a commercial pay and play facility or are snooty private Country Clubs with a golf course to go with the dining rooms, tennis courts and pool.
Uricanejack
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Truthfully I don't know. Never been through the door. I Walk the dog past the R Van every time I am in town. A really fancy tennis club next door as well. Its only a Block from my in laws. Initiation fee is more than I paid for the boat. Its been there for a while I think its a club rather than a business just some exclusive. Quite a few of the clubs have similar initiation fees increasing with age.
oldgit
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Ha .......at our MoBo club the average age is 65 and rising .....a young whippersnapper like you would reduce the average age by whole minuites...same price wether 18 or 88.
Are yacht clubs more cliquey than mobo clubs, ?
When we go on any sort of event,the entire club participates,be it Phantom 50 or Fairline Holiday....... 19ft and bit.
Assume that denizens of yacht clubs will tend to divide into boat size ?
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Robin
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R Van?? my UK Yacht club had/has a first year joining fee of IIRC equal to one year's or two year's annual subscription, but waived until 2nd year as the first year was considered probationary. however the annual subs were around a hundred pounds so not horrific and very fair considering that the members own the club and all it's assets. I know some so called Golf clubs here in the USA ( I assume YCs are similar) have monthly fees greater than my annual pension even without their monstrous joining fee on top and all just to hob knob with a bunch of posing wannabees. Different worlds and different planets.
DJE
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Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club also has an astronomical joining fee (it goes with the territory) but applicants who can demonstrate a genuine interest in sailing get two year's membership before they have to pay the joining fee. Sort of acknowledges that many of their members don't have an interest in sailing - but very useful for a transient expat population.
Babylon
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Well expressed. If the focus is wrong, then there's no point.
Giblets
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And the deck shoes must be suitably faded and salt stained. Never try with a brand new pair of them. An old sailing buddy of mine (since departed for the Mighty Ocean) used to soak his new deck shoes in a bucket of salt water for a week before wearing them on the boat!
