Urgent question regarding tcm and Yacht Clubs

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I have to identify "any yacht clubs of which i may be a member".

Now, I can't remember joining any yacht clubs myself - but does anyone know of any yacht clubs that are ridiculously easy to join and which i therefore *may* have joined - perhaps by accident?

The Tesco Bag-pinching Yacht Club? The Offshore Jimi Rubbish-joke-listening Endurance Club? The Enstone and Royal Boat-Whackers? The Cynical and Ancient?
 
The THYC

The catchy caption of which is

~ "The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
 
You may (i.e. be allowed to )be member of many clubs, but it depends on your provenance, aftershave, bonk balance, or other esoteric .

Choose something remote where communications are slow.
 
Try the Thomas Lipton method - M.O.B.Y.C.

(allegedly he started My Own Bloody Yacht Club after being blackballed by the Royal Yacht Squadron)
 
Unlikely you would have joined, but I had some work colleagues who formed the Sana'a Yacht Club. Sana'a is the capital of North Yemen, where my former employer used to run various international telecomms stuff.

Only snag is that it is 8000ft up in the mountains, and a 6 hour drive to the coast - they formed the club to help manage the accounts of the mess bar (all illicit of course).
 
Almost any club in the Solent area which does not have moorings of its own. They need the members to boost the bar takings. Those with moorings do not need any more members.
 
I take it that this is to qualify for something or other,
I would remind you that even though you've been a bit remiss with your subs you are still a member of the Windermere Lake and Fell Mariner's Society.

Please forward the last 5 years subs to update your membership card.

(Sorry the subs had to go up to £4000 PA in 2003)

The Commodore.
 
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but does anyone know of any yacht clubs that are ridiculously easy to join

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I'd like to know as well. It's a bit more difficult when you live abroad even though we spend about 5 weeks in total every year on our solent based boat.

As for non sailing club members visiting other yacht clubs, I do wonder how many would insist on seeing your club card. I notice on a lot of their web sites they invite not only sailors from other clubs but "visiting yachtsmen" as well.
 
You didn't become a member of the Imperial Randolph Yacht Club, did you? It had premises in what once was the red light district of Little Venice, just north of Paddington. Membership was limited to six, and meetings were held every evening, six days a week, to sample the culinary efforts of each member in turn. This was generally tolerable, washed down as it was by good measures of home brew.

When membership fell below six, by one form of attrition or another (but most frequently because a member had fallen under the malign influence of a siren who did not share his appetite for home brew and stewed lambs' hearts) prospective new members had to satisfy an entry protocol. It should have been a doddle for you (and would I am sure have been waived if those webcam pictures of boating in New York had been available).

The prospective member was invited to a meal, fed on curried chicken liver, then taken round to the Red Lion* for a game of dominoes. The Commodore would buy the first round and explain the running order for the dominoes. Members would finish their pints without making a fuss about it, and wait, patiently. Failure to offer to buy the second round within a reasonable time was deemed an absolute disqualification to membership.

*or some such - my membry of student days is a bit rusty.
 
There is a Yacht club in New York USA looking for new members.
However you are required to to be able to navigate on the sidewalk and must have your own boat.

I feel you are Fully qualified to to become a life time member.

SWNC ( Side Walk Navigation Club)
 
You (or praps the LV pension fund?) are a member of the "International Sporting Club D'Antibes Vauban"

(Didn't you get that letter from the Dep president 12 Jan 2007 that began "Dear Member"?)

It is indeed ridiculously easy to join. Just requires a one-off cash payment €325,000. That was about 2002 rates. It had gone up by the time I joined in 2004
 
i'm pretty sure it's me on acount of pension funds being unable to whistle up the customary sainsbury's bag of banknotes.

Fr marinas partic poxy in this regard. Same in uk tho. But spanish marinas utterly fab at yot clubs with nice bar, all welcome. I remeber ghastly arg time on rental boat f7 into arenal - 3 minutes after tying up there's a large whisky from nice waiter, sir, excellent stuff.
 
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