'Welcome to Visiting Yachtsmen'

[DAKA]

Re: \'Welcome to Visiting Yatchsmen\'

Any chance of a few choice phrases that will help us stinkies blag it at the bar ?

Any of this right ?

F1-4

We were becalmed and had to motor here all the way, used almost a litre of red.


F5-6

We were making 6 knots when the whole boat started to shudder and vibrate, we obviously exceeded the hull speed again but as I wasnt sure what damage had been done we decided to motor here and used nearly a full litre of red..

f7-8

It was that rough we had to motor here all the way using the jib to steady us and used up a full seasons 1 litre supply of diesel.

 

[Robin]

Re: \'Welcome to Visiting Yatchsmen\'

Our YACHT Club has both sail and powerboat members and our club marina has a selection from both camps in the berths, plus some RIBs. We welcome visitors to the marina and the clubhouse either restaurant or bar. Visitors are automatically 'temporary' members for licensing purposes at the bar but I believe even member's guests are required to be signed in and officially may not be allowed to buy drinks, this is for licence compliance reasons as the club is not a 'public' house.

The convention used to be that reciprocal arrangements were offered between RYA affiliiated clubs (most are) but I never heard of any genuine yotties of whatever faith being turned away just for not being members of another club.

It is worth remembering that clubs have bills to pay just like commercial establishments and I don't think it reasonable to expect them to offer free showers and subsidised drinks and food willy nilly to allcomers regardless and especially not to risk their licence to sell alcahol in the process.

 

[DAKA]

Re: \'Welcome to Visiting Yatchsmen\'

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Visitors are automatically 'temporary' members for licensing purposes at the bar but I believe even member's guests are required to be signed in and officially may not be allowed to buy drinks, this is for licence compliance reasons as the club is not a 'public' house.



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I am pleased someone else has herd of this /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I think I read that as if you arrive by boat then you can buy alcohol but if you arrive by car you have to be signed in and have your drinks bought for you all night.

I am sure many of us visit yacht clubs all the time, Royal Dorset was mentioned above being one of my favourites, we dont actually stay on club moorings (portland swingers I believe) so can we actually buy alcohol legally ?

Should the visitors book be taken a lot more seriously than it currently is ie/ addresses and full names given, counter signed by a member and who ever signs in then has to buy the drinks all night.

 

[Robin]

Re: \'Welcome to Visiting Yatchsmen\'

The answer depends on the licencing laws I believe and the kind of licence that the club holds.

As I said visitors using one of our marina berths pay a visitor fee which includes temporary membership to use the bar, restaurant, showers, loos and so on, even washer/dryers.

We are a large dinghy racing club too and run lots of big events from Open meetings to National and World Championships. I believe the entry fees for these also includes temporary membership.

Visitors otherwise are also welcome if they are bona fide yotties (power or sail) but would need with our club licence to be signed in. The general convention over the years has been that members of RYA affiliated clubs (most are) will be seen as bona fide yotties as would individual members of the RYA but not of a club and as such would be granted temporary membership.

Guests of members (like aunty Maud) are required to be signed in as guests and I think shouldn't buy drinks themselves, but nowhere does it say aunty cannot slip the money to her nephew to go do the deed.

I'm not an expert on this but that is how I understand it and it seems perfectly reasonable to me. Clubs are NOT generally the snooty places imagined by some. That is not to say there aren't a few stuck up berks around but you can meet them just as easily in the Dog and Duck.