Every membership scheme in this industry sells the same thing: a card, a discount and a newsletter nobody reads. We tried to design one of those and could not make it mean anything.

So the Club is the alumni body instead. You are in it because you sailed — a week, a weekend, a charter, New Year. What binds it is not a fee; it is that the people in it have anchored in the same bay, cooked in the same galley and had the conversation that happens somewhere around Wednesday.

It stays small deliberately. A group of two hundred people who have actually met is worth more than a list of ten thousand who have not, and the moment it stops feeling like that it stops working.

Dates before anyone else

Every week is offered to the Club before it is published. Small cohorts mean the good ones go this way and never reach the site at all.

The winter programme

The season is short. Between October and April the Club continues online — the practitioners from the health weeks, the founders from Deep Water, and the navigation modules from the Academy.

Your cohort, kept

Each week keeps its own group afterwards. We set it up and then stay out of it, which is why they last.

Introductions

Members ask us to put them in touch with each other, constantly. We do it when both sides want it and never otherwise.

The Gathering

One week a year the fleet sails together. Members are invited first and the price is held for them.

Sea Trial credit

Members considering ownership take the Sea Trial week at cost, credited in full against a purchase.

Everyone who sails with us in the first season is recorded as First Fleet. Their name goes on the perpetual bell, this year’s prices are held for three years, and they see every date before it is published — permanently, not for a year.

There will only ever be one first season. When it is full, that door closes and does not reopen.

See What Is Sailing

Sail first

Almost everyone joins after a week or a charter. That is the intended route and the reason the Club holds together.

Or apply

If you have not sailed with us yet but the house makes sense to you, write. Tell us your background and your connection to the sea. We read every application ourselves.

There is no tier list

We removed it. People are either in the Club or they are not, and paying more does not move you up something that does not exist.

It can be declined

Rarely, and always politely. A small group only stays worth belonging to if somebody is willing to say no.