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

De: Sailing with the Erro's

Sailing with the Erro's — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:16:26 +0000

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.

De: Brown Noise

Brown Noise — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:15:20 +0000

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 ?

De: Tracy LaChance

Tracy LaChance — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 13:03:18 +0000

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!

De: Paul Griffith

Paul Griffith — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 03:55:54 +0000

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.

De: Eric Nelson

Eric Nelson — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 05:37:02 +0000

Sold me at drinking around the fire pit.

De: Tibor Sedlak

Tibor Sedlak — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 03:21:19 +0000

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

De: David C. Gulliver

David C. Gulliver — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 17:26:51 +0000

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…

De: The Sailing Project Artemis

The Sailing Project Artemis — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:23:47 +0000

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

De: Marc Lawyer

Marc Lawyer — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:12:59 +0000

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

De: Drew Gibbons

Drew Gibbons — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 06:13:19 +0000

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