sahona wrote: Basically we like active members, not boat-parkers from afar, who take up resources but are never around when something needs done.
These are my personal rant by the way, not the official club view!
but probably should be part of the club rules - but wouldn't be very PC.
As I say, the enquiry is casual.
Boat shape is the same as Webby's Fairwinds! I think that you may already have ( or used to have ) an Albin Vega in the club.
We're currently in the Marina at Ardlui on Loch Lomond. We're certainly not boat parkers - we use the boat most weekends during the summer. We like the facility of a marina as we often take the g/kids with us, but as they get older then wall ladders / island pontoons are more do able ( then again, as the skipper gets older ......)
A marina berth on the Clyde is another £ 1000 plus a year more than we pay at the moment although the gap is getting less.
Troon would be a fairly easy road trip from home but from the sailing point of view, I would prefer to be further into the estuary.
Kip is also a reasonable run from home, and have a cruising club, but their reduced berthing rates only apply up to 7 M IIRC.
Ash
