What we do at GYC can easily be done at Kelly Park. I would urge you to start small and show fiscal self suffiency. A chain link fence and metal shipping container are all that is needed for security. You can use the restrooms already there. If you look at a proper club house with restrooms, lights and potable water, I think you need $250k for start up.

The City of Gulfport gets somewhere in the neighborhood of $12k a year from GYC. Plus, we have to pay utilities and insurance. A city will only support you if there is something in it for them. If you go with your hand out, you might just as well stay home. I know! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

I'm pretty well done with JPOR. It's a difficult trip (diagonally across the State on secondary roads), my wife can probably not come with me, I don't like launching in surf, and, frankly, it isn't very well organized. Eustis is much the same. Supporting a new club, especially one with a youth program, would put such a trip back on my list.