Quannapowitt Yacht Club

NOTE: The following membership definitions were purposely placed within the Club Rules by the Constitution Committee of 1990. This provides for year-to-year changes within the categories of memberships as the Club's needs change. Changes may be made here by a vote of the Board, foregoing the need for a Constitutional change and vote of the membership each time a change is needed in the membership definitions. Broad membership guideline definitions are contained within the Constitution and they refer to these definitions for the finer points; in turn, these Rules refer to the Constitution for the broad guideline definitions the Board should follow when changing these categories.

DO NOT DELETE THESE CATEGORIES FROM THE RULES, THEY ARE NOT REPETITIVE OF THOSE IN THE CONSTITUTION.  

Fees and dues are set by the Board each year. All memberships are subject to the Constitution and these Rules.

Active memberships as defined in Article XV, Section 2a of the Constitution include the following:

1. Full Member: May be granted to an adult applicant and their immediate family which includes the wife, husband, and all children who are 19 or under living at home. Membership an be extended to allow members of family who are full-time students up to the age of 23. Applicants for membership, on acceptance, would pay full initiation fee, plus dues and be granted all privileges of the Club. Members of a family who apply for their own membership will not be required to pay an initiation fee upon acceptance to the Club.
2. Limited memberships as defined in Article XV, Section 2b of the Constitution include the following. (These are non-voting memberships and are not automatically renewable.)
1. Crew: May be granted to applicants who do not own a class racing boat, but will be an active crew. Such applicants must be sponsored by a current active member for whom the applicant will crew. Such applicants, upon acceptance, would pay dues equal to a percentage (set by the Board of Directors) of the Full membership rate. They would be granted only the right to crew for a Full Member and would only have use of club facilities while in the company of the member.
2. Associate: May be granted to an applicants who does not own a class racing boat, but who has expressed a desire to be a committee person, or has an ability critical to the needs of Q.Y.C. Such applicants, on acceptance, would pay full dues and be granted all privileges of the Club
3. Sailboard: May be granted to applicants who race in QYC's scheduled sailboard racing series. Such members' dues are part of the racing series fee. Membership confers only the right to participate in the racing series in which the member is enrolled and social occasions to which the member is invited.