Wifey B: Our yacht club is greeeaaaaaat. I love the tennis courts.
Seriously, keeping in mind it's 12:17 AM tomorrow where I am. Our yacht club also has excellent reciprocal agreements, has great sailing programs for kids, has a very good restaurant. Yes, they do require the purchase of a certain amount of meals which we generally accomplish by taking a group there periodically. The club is a very pleasant atmosphere. I wouldn't be surprised if there's politics occasionally but we don't participate so don't know and wouldn't be affected by it. There are other really good clubs in our area with lots of activities, more than ours. I think with most clubs you can make them whatever you want. You can socialize and make friends if that's your desire. You can use the fitness or tennis facilities. You can eat and socialize or just dock and come into the clubhouse. You can get involved in conflict and club politics but in most that isn't a requirement.
We get our benefit by being able to take a short boat trip and play tennis on great courts. Our best friends got theirs through taking tennis lessons to try to beat us. :lol: We don't mind the meal requirement because that keeps the restaurant going and it's nice and convenient. We love to watch the kids sailing. They're cool and good kids. How do you value a place where your child can engage in such a healthy and wholesome activity rather than the other choices they might have?
Every club is different. We've been to dozens while cruising and found them all to be friendly. People join yacht clubs for pleasure. They ask if you want to join and you try to explain as you're 2000 miles from home, perhaps not. We even enjoy though going to other yacht clubs in our area occasionally just to see what is going on.
Every club is different. Some focus too much on things that wouldn't interest us. Others target our interests.
Seriously, keeping in mind it's 12:17 AM tomorrow where I am. Our yacht club also has excellent reciprocal agreements, has great sailing programs for kids, has a very good restaurant. Yes, they do require the purchase of a certain amount of meals which we generally accomplish by taking a group there periodically. The club is a very pleasant atmosphere. I wouldn't be surprised if there's politics occasionally but we don't participate so don't know and wouldn't be affected by it. There are other really good clubs in our area with lots of activities, more than ours. I think with most clubs you can make them whatever you want. You can socialize and make friends if that's your desire. You can use the fitness or tennis facilities. You can eat and socialize or just dock and come into the clubhouse. You can get involved in conflict and club politics but in most that isn't a requirement.
We get our benefit by being able to take a short boat trip and play tennis on great courts. Our best friends got theirs through taking tennis lessons to try to beat us. :lol: We don't mind the meal requirement because that keeps the restaurant going and it's nice and convenient. We love to watch the kids sailing. They're cool and good kids. How do you value a place where your child can engage in such a healthy and wholesome activity rather than the other choices they might have?
Every club is different. We've been to dozens while cruising and found them all to be friendly. People join yacht clubs for pleasure. They ask if you want to join and you try to explain as you're 2000 miles from home, perhaps not. We even enjoy though going to other yacht clubs in our area occasionally just to see what is going on.
Every club is different. Some focus too much on things that wouldn't interest us. Others target our interests.