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What\'s the use of RYA membership? NONE!
Okay, I confess, this week I joined the RYA to get my sail numbers. It cost me £28 (I think) and the sail numbers were then "free". Else I could have paid £18 and had the sail numbers. So, I figured the membership for a tenner was worth a try.
WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!
I don't want some silly credit card, or for the RYA to offer me ISP access. I don't want anything they offer. It's crap.
They sent me their magazine (the issue from Summer 2001 and the "current" one. GAWD, it's enough to make you give up sailing. Boring, predictable, naturally very politically correct, and totally unchallenging. A useless rag which advanced my knowledge of boating by not one iota. Read (what there was other than self serving back patting and advertisments) and binned.
So they have committees. YAWN. So Princess Anne is the patron. Why? etc.
I had expected their website to have all manner of information. Well, even with the correct login, they seem to have lots of pretty pages, with lots of headlines BUT NO INFORMATION.
As a matter of fact, their website must surely rank as being as useful as the proverbial Naval Officer on a yacht. Silly ranting? Go take a look - click on "RACING" then on "RULES" and see what you get? Try some other examples - almost all as empty. The FAQ is basic and is infinitely better covered in PBO and YM.
I really feel like I've been ripped off. Why the hell do they need 90, yes NINETY, employees? What the hell do they do? Could they not do as much with 45 - dozens could be shed just by not offering silly services which are almost totally unrelated to boating in any form.
Perhaps I will wait until next week and then cancel my membership just to prove my disgust with them.
Okay, I confess, this week I joined the RYA to get my sail numbers. It cost me £28 (I think) and the sail numbers were then "free". Else I could have paid £18 and had the sail numbers. So, I figured the membership for a tenner was worth a try.
WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!
I don't want some silly credit card, or for the RYA to offer me ISP access. I don't want anything they offer. It's crap.
They sent me their magazine (the issue from Summer 2001 and the "current" one. GAWD, it's enough to make you give up sailing. Boring, predictable, naturally very politically correct, and totally unchallenging. A useless rag which advanced my knowledge of boating by not one iota. Read (what there was other than self serving back patting and advertisments) and binned.
So they have committees. YAWN. So Princess Anne is the patron. Why? etc.
I had expected their website to have all manner of information. Well, even with the correct login, they seem to have lots of pretty pages, with lots of headlines BUT NO INFORMATION.
As a matter of fact, their website must surely rank as being as useful as the proverbial Naval Officer on a yacht. Silly ranting? Go take a look - click on "RACING" then on "RULES" and see what you get? Try some other examples - almost all as empty. The FAQ is basic and is infinitely better covered in PBO and YM.
I really feel like I've been ripped off. Why the hell do they need 90, yes NINETY, employees? What the hell do they do? Could they not do as much with 45 - dozens could be shed just by not offering silly services which are almost totally unrelated to boating in any form.
Perhaps I will wait until next week and then cancel my membership just to prove my disgust with them.