Royal Yacht Squadron.....

[photodog]

We had a visitor to our pontoon yesterday.... a fabulous wooden gaffer named Alice III..... Very friendly crew who had come in from Falmouth with 30 knots up the chuff...

She was flying the RYS colours and had a very large RYS ensign hanging over the pontoon.... (Which i thought suited the boat to the ground...)

I got to wondering... how does one become a member of the RYS??

I looked at their website and I could see a link to Working for the RYS... but nothing about how to become a member.....

As a aside.... is there any sort of ceremony I should have conducted when passing under the ensign on my way to the shower block?





I have a sneaking suspicion that the qualifications nessecary to join may include the ability to turn a 45 foot gaffer with 15 foot bowsprit and long keel in the space between the pontoons, and then back it into a finger berth...... all in winds gusting to 25 knots or so.... Which will preclude my joining... (As well as the guy who tried to back his 455 dufour up the same corridor the previous day and became impailed upon the pullpits of several yachts downwinde.....)

 

[curve]

I got to wondering... how does one become a member of the RYS??

If you have to ask then you have got no chance of joining.

 

[sarabande]

would you like me to put in a good word for you PD ?

 

[Wansworth]

I think they have a leaning towards Grocers (Lipton)On the whole very nice people but you have to be asked and blackballed etc,Still on passing the flag your could have made a little inflection of the spine!

 

[Bajansailor]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the qualifications nessecary to join may include the ability to turn a 45 foot gaffer with 15 foot bowsprit and long keel in the space between the pontoons, and then back it into a finger berth...... all in winds gusting to 25 knots or so....

Alice III is very deceptive isn't she? She is a bit of a turbocharged wolf on speed in sheeps clothing - she was designed by Simon Rogers and has a radical 2.3 m deep bulbed fin keel under that very traditional appearance above the waterline.
More info about her at http://www.rogersyachtdesign.com/ - go to Past Projects, and scroll down.

 

[photodog]

Alice III is very deceptive isn't she? She is a bit of a turbocharged wolf on speed in sheeps clothing - she was designed by Simon Rogers and has a radical 2.3 m deep bulbed fin keel under that very traditional appearance above the waterline.
More info about her at http://www.rogersyachtdesign.com/ - go to Past Projects, and scroll down.

Ok, I want one.... here I was thinking I had seen a master at work!!

She is more modern than my Bavaria!!

 

[Koeketiene]

I got to wondering... how does one become a member of the RYS??

One does not become a member, one is invited to join.

IIRC they turned down Lord Mountbatten for wearing the wrong colour socks on a Friday (or something equally silly).

Have no ambitions in that direction as I very rarely wear socks

 

[savageseadog]

They wouldn't let you walk past their door.

 

[Giblets]

Not wishing to be a pedant but the RYS does not have an ensign. The members are permitted to fly the White Ensign or St George's Ensign as flown by British Royal Navy ships and shore establishments.

 

[Seagreen]

I've heard they won't take anybody. You have to be royalty or senior "respectable" politico. A shiny business pedigree may help, but I think they regret taking Bankers in these days. Or a remarkable and world-beating feat of sailing. I think thats how RKJ got in. Don't think that they've caught up with Ellen MacArthur yet...

 

[Super_Seven]

I thought that they turned down Sir Thomas Lipton as he owned a shop. Also ladies are not allowed to use the main staircase and you only have to pay your bar bill once a year. It is said that the Aga Khan paid for their new marina...