Join Us, or Renew Your Membership

We warmly welcome boat owners and non-boat owners.

Membership covers a family and includes children and grandchildren who are under 18 years of age at the start of the year. Membership can also cover up to 3 joint-owners of a shared boat.

Joining Membership: £67 for the first year, which includes an SPYC pennant.  (£52 if a pennant is not required)

Renewing Membership: £52 pa

Benefits of Membership

• All types of boats welcome, and they don’t need to be berthed at Shotley Marina!
• Our annual programme of over 40 events includes, training, cruising, fun challenges and social functions in a family friendly and welcoming atmosphere.
• Event organisers arrange activities, book berths (club rates), arrange meals and host the event.
• Access to our Crew Pool Scheme for all members who are looking for crew, or who wish to sail as crew (Read more about the Crew Pool Scheme here)
• Receive our club magazine, The Crow’s Nest.
• Club office with resources including, office, RYA affiliation (advice, support, information and representation)
• Equipment and tools for loan, eg children’s lifejackets, rig tension gauge.
• Help with work on your boat – just ask.
• Sailing in company provides confidence and leadership for the less experienced.

Payment & Registration (1st Member of the family or 1st Member of a boat-share)

Our preferred method of payment is via credit or debit card using one of the Stripe payment buttons below. Once payment is received, you will be re-directed to a "Thank You" page which confirms successful receipt of payment. It also provides a registration link inviting you to set up your user profile and create a login password. Once you have filled in your profile information and pressed the "submit" button, you can then log in to the website with full access to all the "Member Only" pages. We encourage members to create as full a user profile as possible (as this can be useful to other members and particularly to club event organisers), but only a handful of fields are mandatory. Once you are logged in, you can edit and update your user profile at any time to provide more detail or make any necessary changes.

(If you would prefer to pay by bank transfer, please complete our Membership Request Form and our Membership Secretary will then get in touch to arrange this. This is a manual process so it may take a few days to complete your website registration and gain full Member access to the website). 

 

Registration (additional family members or additional shared-boat owners)

Once the first member has joined and paid the annual subscription, they will be emailed a non-advertised webpage address which they can share with their additional members in order to allow them to register personally to gain immediate full access to the website. No further payment will be required, but each additional member must complete the same registration form as the 1st member, to include their own personal confirmation of acceptance of the Club's data privacy policy. (Please note that user profiles for additional members will identify them as Affiliate Members. This is purely for administrative convenience and does not imply a different class of membership. All Members have the same full membership status).