Tot ce trebuie să știți – Yacht Clubs – Merită? Ep 155 – Lady K Sailing

44 thoughts on “Tot ce trebuie să știți – Yacht Clubs – Merită? Ep 155 – Lady K Sailing”

1. 2 Grand ? What a bargain compared to what we pay on Puget Sound.

2. Would love your take on Cabo Rico….

3. Cheers.

4. 2K a year is dirt cheap!

5. Great vlog on yacht clubs! We enjoy our membership in the Pensacola Yacht Club for many of the reasons you described!

6. Love it. I am thinking The Club in Clearwater which is closest to me . Maybe a Gates, Rockefeller. Type Club. By Pictures their Dinghies are worth more than my Boat . I did think of another PRO. The Old Saying One Mans Trash is another Mans Treasure. Just imagine is the wealthy clubs. How Much Great usable stuff that gets Thrown Away. You could little by little Upgrade your boat for free. Possibly Saving enough to pay your member fee's.

7. Wow you have some great prices at your yacht club

8. Spot on. I love my club.

9. Wow $2K a year. I’m not even going to tell you what it costs in San Francisco. Btw love your Brandon Belt shirt.

10. Around here a big reason to join is because otherwise its a 15 year+ wait on slips, but you have to make your boat available for the club, if someone takes it you get 50% of the payment.

11. I'm getting ripped off…around where I am on lake Ontario we pay anywhere between 42-60 bucks a foot…and that doesn't include power or lift out or winter storage! The last marina I was at I was paying 3k for the slip and $560 to launch it $560 to pull it out and about $2500 in storage fees once they charged to put it on the cradle you have to pay $150 to store..

12. Sounds like you have a great yacht club. I wish that I wasn’t land locked in Nevada. Are you going to the boat show in Annapolis?

13. Great story and I love the definition of ‘the opposite of snooty’.

14. $2k is an amazing price for what you get. 3x that here in oz

15. Good episode and quite informative!! Thanks for sharing as always!!

16. You are absolutely right, a marina is definitely less expensive. I live in NE Ohio and looked at marinas and yacht clubs from lorain to Ashtabula. I found this little gem of a marina, Grand River Marine, in Fairport. It is run down with really no amenities other than services – haul out, storage, a repair shop, winterizing, ect… There is a gas dock, but, no diesel. They offer pump out service, but, their pump out is broken. I had engine problems and inquired about having a technician look at it, they don't work on diesels. I have an S2 9.2A and a 30' dock with haul out, storage and launch is $2000 a year. No upfront cost. Others in our area wanted $500+ just to apply for membership. I think it was Forrest City in Cleveland, wanted an application fee of $5000…non-refundable… Our marina is probably 45% sailing boats and is the first dockage on the river coming in off the lake. Erie, that is. Not sure if you're familiar at all. My wife and I discussed our options and decided we didn't need a swimming pool, club house, or any of the frills. My dock neighbor has a 39', I moved last winter to a 40' dock, now I'm at $2300, he calls it "the ghetto marina"…lol. Love your videos, keep 'em comin'.

17. Yacht clubs can be great. I bought a Hobie 33 and had no clue how to raise the mast or rig it, and the other members of the club helped so much. Because of the help of other members, I can raise, lower and rig a Hobie 33 by myself.

18. Great video. I have just purchased my first sailboat. Unfortunately I’ve had a terrible experience at the sailing club where it was birthed. In the same “area” where you roam I believe. The first day I actually met someone, their harbour master, he told me I had to leave ASAP. Remember this is the end of September in Southern Ontario. Not a “hi”, “hello”, “my name is….” – just get out ASAP. I was extremely disappointed as this was my first bad experience with anyone involved in sailing. I will chalk this up to a poor ambassador to the sport. However I will never, ever, be a part of or recommend that sailing club to anyone I meet. Luckily I found a transient berth down the lake a few clicks. It’s a Marina but thanks to your video I will do my research over the winter and look for a yacht/sailing club. Have to move my boat now……

    Keep up the good work!!

19. I’m glad you made this one. I just spoke about this subject with my boss yesterday.

20. We just our first sailboat and joined the yacht club. Its been a great experience. The hospitality from everyone at the club has been great. Events every weekend, classes on everything about sailing, everyone offering to lend a hand, and so much more. All from a small yacht club. I really don't see any downside. Great video's I watch them all.
    Cheers 🍻 🙏

21. What is your next adventure. Going back to Bahamas again?

22. Good video. Sailing costs more than golfing, both cost more than most other leisure activities – so people with money. That's why it's not unreasonable to expect snooty behavior. What little I know. Golf club members seem to be mad at the world, yacht club sailors seem to only pretend to be mad at power boaters (unless something just happened). Golfers talk politics (toxic politics imho), sailors talk about boats, rigging, fixing stuff, sailing. I guess my only question now is, can I join a yacht club if I don't yet have a boat? I'm going to Annapolis next week – – I expect I'll be able find a quick answer to that – or maybe even a quick solution.

23. So where is a picture of your snooty convertible car? 🙂

24. 2000 a year? Wow, what a dream. In FL the only time I was close to that, I had no power, or water but some amenities. In another place in FL, I was at $6000 a year!, for a 33 foot boat, but it was close to a boardwalk full of restaurants, and bars, so that explains it. You're right, boat clubs are great.

25. Thanks so much, with much sarcasm . Your story about what started you sailing. I saw the same thing this weekend. A 30 foot hunter under full sail came out of the marina . He was so chill and driving with his foot. I saw the look…..I was on my boat that i unexpected inherited from dad. I gave me second thoughts on selling it now. Lol

26. Great episode. We've been club members for 15 years. I completely agree with your comments. We have met and now are good friends with several people we would never have met without the club. My biggest advice to new members is to show up often. Get out of your shell and sit with several people and get to know them. Invite em for a ride ask for a ride. Most people love sharing their boats

27. there are auxiliary clubs and country clubs you can join to use yacht clubs cheaper

28. i love sailing clubs

29. How about a episode on flipping boats for profit?

30. 2K? WOW I pay twice that for the cheapest marina in my area. Slip, water, power and one usable bathroom is all I get. Also the only sailboat in the place 🙁

31. Well presented and very informative!

32. I love being in a yatch club so much ;I also joined the one next. Door. P.s it has a 3-7 year waiting list for a slip. Oh it's a working man's/woman's club

33. Excellent video, I belong to Windward Point Yacht Club on Lake Murray, SC and can say that I whole heartily agree with your assessment and all that the club has to offer.

34. I watched this video a week ago and immediately started researching yacht clubs on lake Champlain. I'm refiting my Colombia 10.7 in a marina on the lake.. Turns out yacht clubs are a better deal than the marinas here after paying the initial fees its less expensive too.

35. Great suite of information clear and personable delivery. These all you wanted to know 's are great.
    Drew

36. We just found a very well set up yacht club (training on dinghies, boats -sail/power, pontoons, hard area) and hope to join soon and my wife can learn to sail from someone who is not me and we're looking at buying our own in the Spring.
    Thanks for the video

37. loved this one
    I just joined a club in NY and had the same thought about the clubs untill i joind a friend at the club
    now im hooked and love the community

38. I loved/hated my membership @ a local YC. I did enjoy all of the things that you listed, but- my club, and many others- have a 'keeping up with the Jones' from cars to boats to rigging accoutrements (even the language is upgraded!) This gets 'snootty' pretty quickly- but, MANY other clubs were much less like that. But, Boston's South Shore has fewer clubs to join close to the big city, so- lots of pressure to join & maintain the level of the Jones'. However, the camaraderie is priceless and I strongly recommend the 1,000's of friendly clubs where the love of sailing (and racing) is enjoyed without the show off, snooty behaviors found around what I call Big City clubs…

39. isn`t this more relevant to Canada? I could find may yacht clubs in Florida only Marinas

40. Sold me at drinking around the fire pit.

41. My dad was a sailor on the USS Joyce some time between 1953-1956. While he was in Newport Rhode Island, he was a member of a yacht club. I know his sailboat survived the hurricane in 1954, and some member(s) told him that he tied it up wrong. I don't know what type of boat it was but I presume it would have been some sort of open boat. Any idea what type of sailboat an enlisted sailor would have had in the 1950's? My twin and I showed up in 1957 and he never got another sailboat.

42. I just discovered your channel. It’s been informative as we decide whether to purchase a boat, and if so, what type (sailboat or power cruiser). I am in shock over the price for the yacht club. It’s less than half the price of the Marinas near me! Maybe I need to move!

43. Yep. Snooty Yacht Clubs are Really Bad News, and for ordinary Boaters, should be avoided at All Costs imho. But there are great Smaller Clubs out there, which are perfect for Coastal Cruisers/Racers. The one I was in, had nothing like the features list of yours, but a couple of Boatyards Close that are pretty good, with the Pub right at the top of a very long estuary being the meeting place, has mooring buoys available etc, for 15 pounds a year, and quite a full Season activity programme. I'll likely rejoin 9nce I have another Boat. Next place down the Estuary on the North Bank is an effing expensive snooty Marina and effing expensive Yacht Club, Membership of which gets you discount at the Chandlers there, and all the facilities costing many thousands of pounds a year all in. The RYA training centre has good people, but the cost of Courses, is staggering. Almost opposite on the South Bank is another place that's much more reasonable, but Moorings with vicious currents and no Marina. Further down the Estuary, and cutting close to an hour off the journey to the Mouth of the Estuary, is a Municipal Marina, which has Slips for Liveaboards, and given it it includes annual Municipal Property Taxes, plus has 2 boatyards with haulout facilities, a rather nice restaurant, etc, is pretty good value on a par with your costs , plus The top of the Estuary Yacht Club is worth having with it. I might do that for a Year , as the Liveaboard Community is reputed to be very good in that Marina. Though I might get the boat delivered to Turkey via Gibraktar after Commissioning, and join the delivery Crew at Gib, then after getting back to the UK, head to that Municipal Marina as a base to get fully serviced up ready for the next trip. Volunteering as Crew, is a very good way of getting insights into whether Specific Yacht Clubs Suit You, but there is the danger that you can become addicted to Sailboat Racing, which can colour your outlook to the Disadvantage of Cruising expectations. I think I was lucky due to a Terrible Tragedy in 1979, The Fastnet Race Disaster, which had me drop Racing just as I was Starting, and which totally shifted my Sailboat perspective heavily in favour of Strong, reliable Sailboats that can take you anywhere, and to be honest, wherever I've been heading to, I've mostly arrived at reasonable speeds, the one exception, was losing a well found boat, when attacked by Wreckers, due to Sailing around a very large City at Night. Something .I never expected, but will never Do again. I think where people live, should give them an insight into what to expect with their local Clubs. If they are already Snooty, and living in a Snooty Area, expect the Clubs locally to be Snooty ? 🤔

44. I'd like to share my sailing journey if thats OK.
    50 year old novice contacts local sailing club. Sailing club offers free sailing lessons on dinghies with the kids. Yacht club offers for those learning to sail to try keelboat racing on Saturday afternoons after the sail training. Local club offers a spot on their offshore training vessel in actual offshore racers. One of those racers finishes at the same time and same finish line as the Sydney to Hobart fleet. From complete novice to offshore Cat 2 race in just a few months.
    Bored looking for something to do? Go down the club and see if anyone needs a hand or is going for a sail, perhaps do what most local clubs need like some lawn mowing or some weed spraying, clean the boat ramps etc. Local club is extremely cheap to join, full of camaraderie and is the best club I've ever joined in my life. Yes, some members are stupidly rich but you would never know it by how they treat everyone else around them- we are all sailors first and foremost. My late in life sailing journey was realised thanks to how easy it was made by my local yacht club and for $65 a year ( I don't own a sailboat as yet) It's a bargain.
    I cannot recommend enough to people looking to learn to sail to actually contact their local club.

Comments are closed.