Hoofer Sailing Club 2011 – A Glance

Board of Captains MeetingSeptember 21, 2011

Membership

Total membership – 1/1/2008 – 9/20/2011

Membership for 2011 about on par with 2010 (peak membership):2008 – 10832009 – 1154

2010 – 12672011 - 1235

Demographics

Student majority: 59%, 41% community / faculty

Membership types

• Annual memberships are the most popular, followed by summer then free• Over 10% of our members doesn’t pay for their memberships…

- Retainment percentage has been slightly increasing (65 -> 64 -> 60%)- We are mostly new members, so we must not forget to cater to this group.

Joe Silverberg

Membership Retainment35.9% (275/765) of new members this year haven’t earned a rating 37.8% (329/870) of members in 2010 never earned a rating40.0% (341/851) in 2009

Boats

Boat Checkouts

- Everything sailed more this year!- Techs, sloops and windsurfing are most popular

- J-fleet sailed twice as much as keelboats!- Does not account for: youth (small boats, J-29, windsurfing) and sailing

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• 420s, Sloops, J-fleet, Lasers used primarily for day sailing• Keelboats used primarily (70%) for lessons• J-fleet and Sloops used most for conferences

Lessons

Number of lessons by fleet

- Most fleets up in 2011 except for 420s and techs- J-fleet and Windsurfing up substantially

Lesson Popularity

- Badger sloops and J-fleet beyond capacity- Keelboats much less popular this year- Lasers and scows much more popular this year

Shows the percentage of filled spots in lessons

Lesson Cancellations

- About 15% cancellation rate for club as a whole- Overall less lessons cancelled this year- About 30% of ASA courses cancelled due to low or no enrollment- J-fleet, techs, windsurfing and scow lessons filled much more this year- Many more cancelled keelboat, laser and byte lessons this year

- 26% of all Toy Boat lessons cancelled, 30% of SUP lessons cancelled

Ratings

Members who can sail each fleet

- Note: Crew and classroom ratings are not counted since they cannot take out a boat

122 paid members

32 paid members

Shows number of members who cantake out a boat in the specified fleet

55 paid members18 paid members6 paid members

4 paid members

Ratings for active members

- Includes “non-enforceable” ratings such as keelboat crew ratings, tech/kiting classrooms, etc…

Shows number of members who have some rating on the fleet (including onesthat cannot be used to take out a boat)

Ratings given out

- Techs are by far the most popular fleet- Less ratings overall this year- Still very few racing keelboat ratings (only 2 racing keelboat skippers, one was HOI)- Many more cruising keelboat ratings (new boat this year)

65 Cruising9 Racing(44/16 without crew)

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