[Birdface]

Have to admit I wish I'd done a club prior to purchase. Yearly maintenance on the boat comes in close to about half most club's yearly cost. For that extra money you're sailing perfectly maintained boats with all the gear they could need. You also get to experience different sizes/types/makes and decide what you like and what you should save up to buy.

Now that I do own a boat and I've done two seasons worth of repairs on it, I'm addicted and would never look back. But when you spend a perfectly good sailing day pulling your outboard off for a repair or going up the mast in bosun's to rewire something.... you'll be wondering why you didn't just hop on board a club boat and push off. Some offer great cert courses as well in decent packages that make sense.