"Visiting Yachtsmen Welcome"

[Judders]

Or perhaps "memebers of recognised yacht clubs welcome"

My crew arrived in a new port on a cold Sunday morning and decided we would make for the local sailing club for warm coffee and hopefully a bite to eat.

When we got there we could see a few members on the water but the doors were closed. I was simply going to ring the bell and ask if visiting yachtsmen were welcome but my crew baulked at this and presumed that if there wasn't a sign then we weren't.

I make for the Yacht Club or Sailing Club pretty much everywhere I go, and have only been turned away once (Bosham Sailing Club).

What do other people think the form is on this one as my crew and I clearly didn't agree?

 

[AndrewB]

Just guessing ... the Royal Yacht Squadron?

 

[Seajet]

This has just been a subject of discussion; try this thread:

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=303738

 

[sailorman]

Or perhaps "memebers of recognised yacht clubs welcome"

My crew arrived in a new port on a cold Sunday morning and decided we would make for the local sailing club for warm coffee and hopefully a bite to eat.

When we got there we could see a few members on the water but the doors were closed. I was simply going to ring the bell and ask if visiting yachtsmen were welcome but my crew baulked at this and presumed that if there wasn't a sign then we weren't.

I make for the Yacht Club or Sailing Club pretty much everywhere I go, and have only been turned away once (Bosham Sailing Club).

What do other people think the form is on this one as my crew and I clearly didn't agree?

if you are not a member of another club then Flash your RYA card

 

[Cantata]

No cause for any FUD when visiting other clubs. Just be your normal pleasant self (if you have one), I've never experienced anything other than a warm welcome wherever I've been. I have never understood why anyone should think any different. Why on earth would any club turn you away especially if you going to spend money at the bar?
(FUD: term I recall from my I.T. career - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)

 

[Poignard]

. . . I've never experienced anything other than a warm welcome wherever I've been. . .

+1

 

[AliM]

if you are not a member of another club then Flash your RYA card

We sometimes sign in as "Hertfordshire County Yacht Club" members. it sounds grand, and we are members, but it's actually a tiny muddy resevoir dinghy club in the Lee valley. If the Club is so posh that they only allow members of recognised yacht clubs (presumably of equal poshness), then we don't want to go there and they probably don't want us!

 

[jordanbasset]

I always wondered about members of recognised yacht clubs welcome, is it something similar to working mens clubs where their license only allows members, guests of members and members of affiliated clubs.
Either way have not had a problem, just put a club far enough away that no one will know it

 

[DJE]

Notable welcomes last year were received at the Royal Dorset YC and Guernsey YC.

 

[alant]

I always wondered about members of recognised yacht clubs welcome, is it something similar to working mens clubs where their license only allows members, guests of members and members of affiliated clubs.
Either way have not had a problem, just put a club far enough away that no one will know it

Most have a signing in book, just to satisfy the rules.

 

[sailorman]

I always wondered about members of recognised yacht clubs welcome, is it something similar to working mens clubs where their license only allows members, guests of members and members of affiliated clubs.
Either way have not had a problem, just put a club far enough away that no one will know it

Licensing laws are involved regarding conditions of the sale of booze

 

[DanTribe]

Or perhaps "memebers of recognised yacht clubs welcome"

My crew arrived in a new port on a cold Sunday morning and decided we would make for the local sailing club for warm coffee and hopefully a bite to eat.

When we got there we could see a few members on the water but the doors were closed. I was simply going to ring the bell and ask if visiting yachtsmen were welcome but my crew baulked at this and presumed that if there wasn't a sign then we weren't.

I make for the Yacht Club or Sailing Club pretty much everywhere I go, and have only been turned away once (Bosham Sailing Club).

What do other people think the form is on this one as my crew and I clearly didn't agree?

There may be a reason.

1/My club occasionally rents out the clubhouse for private functions [anniversaries, birthdays, funerals etc] and at those times visitors are not admitted. We normally stick a sign on the door in that case.
2/They may have been having a committee meeting when the club was not normally open.
3/ It was a club run by volunteers for sailing and they were all out sailing, but the catering volunteers hadn't turned up yet.
4/ It was a club that exists to keep other people out. Lots of those exist.

 

[sailorman]

Notable welcomes last year were received at the Royal Dorset YC and Guernsey YC.

we were made welcome @ lunch time in the Club Nautico Arrecife, nobody asked "Wot boat"
a superb tappas lunch was taken

 

[dylanwinter]

blazer and pink trousers

I always keep a blazer with polished buttons, some pick trousers and a captains hat on the slug for just such occasions

never been turned away from any club I care to visit

Dylan

 

[Morven]

In Scotand a Licensed club must be for members of the club only. Visitors are permitted but only if signed in by a member of the Club in a special book kept for this purpose. I know of one large social club associated with a well known maufacturer of aero engines that had its licence removed for 6 months for having around 20 non signed in visitors in one Friday night when Mr Plod came round to check.

Disclaimer: Licensing Laws in "Engerland" and Wales may be totaly different.

 

[Cantata]

In Scotand a Licensed club must be for members of the club only. Visitors are permitted but only if signed in by a member of the Club in a special book kept for this purpose. I know of one large social club associated with a well known maufacturer of aero engines that had its licence removed for 6 months for having around 20 non signed in visitors in one Friday night when Mr Plod came round to check.
Disclaimer: Licensing Laws in "Engerland" and Wales may be totaly different.

Just the same in England. No big deal. "Of course you're welcome, come on in and make yourselves at home, I just need you to sign the book for us if you don't mind".
This just isn't an issue. It's ordinary folk with a common interest being civilised to each other for heavens sake. Never met anything different.

 

[BobPrell]

I always keep a blazer with polished buttons, some pick trousers and a captains hat on the slug for just such occasions

Dylan

I noted in Capt john Illingworth's Further Offshore -

Some of the designs of ocean racers in the JOG classes especially, were quite small, but carried several crew. In the cabin layouts, there is always shown a hanging space for blazers, trousers shirts and ties for wear in the host club after the race.

Nowadays I find there are various types of clothing that while still useable in the outdoors, can be worn in clubs without flouting dress rules.

So why get in anyone's face by wearing blue denim? And I like blue denim.

 

[LadyInBed]

I always keep a blazer with polished buttons, some pick trousers and a captains hat on the slug for just such occasions

The togs are a good idea but the captains hat would make you a very suspicious cove

 

[Romeo]

In Scotand a Licensed club must be for members of the club only. Visitors are permitted but only if signed in by a member of the Club in a special book kept for this purpose. I know of one large social club associated with a well known maufacturer of aero engines that had its licence removed for 6 months for having around 20 non signed in visitors in one Friday night when Mr Plod came round to check.

Disclaimer: Licensing Laws in "Engerland" and Wales may be totaly different.

This does of course only matter if you are in there where booze is being sold . No legal restriction if you are in the cafe, rather than the bar (again I am talking Scotland here, no idea what the situation is in southern jurisdicitons). I have often been welcomed at sailing clubs around the scottish coast, but these tend to be places where they don't have that many visiting sailing boats dropping by and I am seen as a wee bit of a curiosity. It is usually a case of being given use of the showers, rather than being invited in by the steward and offered the luncheon menu. I guess in busy sailing areas, the dynamics of such situations are very different.

 

[Morven]

The togs are a good idea but the captains hat would make you a very suspicious cove

Damn, thought I had found a use for my U-Boat skippers hat!