So why are you bringing up crap from several year's ago?
I brought it up because someone on this forum was wondering whether O-100 was still alive. No one was calling this "crap", just you.
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We have an objective 150 - to get 150 boats registered on the beach - we are at 135, so we're getting close. There are 10 new members this year, and we have been over 130 boats for the last 8 years. I guess the "old guard" must be doing something right - just because it is not what you want doesn't make it wrong.
Do the 135 include the boats that you schlep to the beach each spring and where the mast is never even raised for the season. Do the 135 include the junk boats and junk trailers on the parking lot? The club is a great solution for anyone who doesn't want their junk in their front yard. 150 members is a great goal (especially if you want to call yourself the "largest catamaran club in the world" - as I saw on one brochure in the past) - but it's not a real metric for success and it's not a metric for the vitality of the club as a sailing club. Maybe it's a good metric for a social club or for a retiree club, where people just want to "hang out", but if you want measure success for a sailing club, look at least how often members take out their boats, keep a log book, look at race participation, whatever, just define a metric that reflect some aspiration instead of something that just measures whether you're going to meet your budget.
