About 13 years ago, my wife and I belonged to a "sailing club" run by a local Catalina dealer. For $1000, you received seven scheduled days of use of a Catalina 22. The days were supposedly assigned in a drawing, and based on the ranked preferences of all of the other "members". I remember asking for seven Saturdays, and getting them all, so I am guessing that there weren't that many other members that year. You could take the boat out all day if you wanted, and if no one had it reserved the next day, overnight as well. You could also take the boat on any other day it was unreserved for an additional $20. Included in the fee were enough lessons to make the dealer comfortable that you could solo. Also, if you bought a boat from the dealer during that season, he deducted the $1000 from the purchase price. What a deal! Just show up, and the boat was ready to go:
fuel in the tank, porta potti charged, cockpit wiped down. Upon docking, all they asked was that you loosely flake the main and let them know you were back. My wife became pregnant with our first that summer, so we didn't buy a boat and didn't sign up the next year either. A few years later, I tried calling the dealer to see if the Club was still offered, and it seems that he had lost his dealership and gone into pure used boat brokering. Oh well. I wonder now if that type of arrangement is still financially feasible for a dealer to offer. That Catalina 22 was an older boat, so I think the main cost for the dealer would be the insurance.