Membership is already mandatory, this is on top of that if you want to go racing.
So it is not used in the US, how about other countries?
In Holland it is also mandatory to have a so called "Start License" if you want to compete in races (on top of the regular membership).
There is only one needed per boat for the "responsible person", which is usually the owner/skipper.
Officially it is there to support their activities surrounding races etc, but they introduced it when they where short on ca$h, coincidence?
http://translate.google.com/transla...&sl=nl&tl=en&history_state0= 
