About Windworks Membership

Membership in Windworks gives you a home base for all of your sailing and powerboating experiences without the usual costs of boat ownership. In the club you can learn from scratch, or improve your existing boating skills. Go sailing and powerboating as often as you‘d like in the same manner as you would if you owned a boat by the day, weekend, or week. Enjoy excellent staff support and high quality vessels which are always at your service. Our philosophy is to keep our membership dues as low as possible, while maximizing your access to the club services and products when you want them. Your dues are the key to preferred club member pricing, charter privileges, and a host of other exclusive services. Our club members enjoy the continuity, support, convenience, affordability, and camaraderie that a relationship with the club yields especially important when advancing though different certification skill sets or expanding your skills on different vessel types and sizes. Your minimum monthly commitment means we are here to provide your personal access to the best of boating. All club services, classes, and charters are purchased on your individual time frame - when you want to take a class, when you want to charter, or join a group sailing event. Our club offers the highest degree of personal flexibility in choosing how and when you will go sailing. Why buy advance minimum amounts of sailing time required in other programs? We offer maximum flexibility, affordability, and fun! Come and enjoy getting out on the water with us!

Membership Pricing

One Time Initiation Fee - $295
(minimum twelve month membership required)

shim.JPG (1862 bytes) Individual Membership - $42/month Family Membership - $52/month shim.JPG (1862 bytes)
 

For 1 member over 18 years old and includes:

  • Club Member Lesson Prices
  • Charters at Member Prices
  • Access to Club Events
  

For up to 3 family members over 18 and includes:

  • Club Member Lesson Prices
  • Charters at Member Prices
  • Access to Club Events
To look at club membership in yet another way, let's compare sailing in the club to another form of boat access similar to having the Windworks fleet at your disposal. That alternative is, of course, boat ownership. The table below is based on a late model 32' cruising sailboat priced at $90,000.
shim.JPG (1862 bytes) Monthly Expenses Sailing Club Owning a 32' Sail Boat shim.JPG (1862 bytes)
Pay for moorage? No Yes($352)
Pay for insurance? No Yes($60)
Pay for maintenance? No Yes($300)
Pay for mortgage No Yes($648)*
Access to a variety of boats Yes No
Have help and support for you sailing goals? Yes No
Minimum costswhether you sail or not? $40 $1360+
* With a down payment of approximately $18000 * *
 
In short, Windworks members enjoy the lowest possible monthly fixed cost for access to sailboats from 25ft to 43ft. When compared to the fixed monthly costs of ownership, or to other programs that pre-sell monthly sailing time in blocks (whether used or not), our "minimal" dues structure allows you to pay when you actually sail! The average number of days sailed per year in the US for people who own their own cruising sailboat is 14 days per year. Do the math! The downpayment on the boat alone would buy over 75 days of charter, of about 5 1/2 years of typical usage. The monthly expenses, not including unforeseen maintenance, would buy 5 days of sailing per month, every month of the year, for the 15 year term of the boat financing! As this example illustrates, the sailing club offers the most affordable choice for sailing in the market today. Think of it as maximum sailing flexibility!

 
Additional Benifits of Club Membership

  • Monthly Newsletter - updates you on our monthly offers for continuing education specials, monthly club sails, special sailing trip packages, spinnaker classes, social events, heavy weather training, women's sailing programs, our own sailboat racing team, and other club information!
  • Reduced Lessons Rates - Members save up to 50% on lessons!
  • Reduced Charter Rates - Members receive up to 50% off on all Windworks vessel charters, and enjoy exclusive priority in booking. For our core membership customers, chartering is designed to be convenient, affordable and flexible! Chartering is not readily available to the general public, except on limited standby basis.
  • Discounts on Worldwide Charters - Member receive discounts on bareboat and skippered charters in the Caribbean and worldwide!
  • Access to our "Windshare" Program - a unique program for club members to network and sail with other club members!
  • Great Boats - We have the best fleet of sailboats on Puget Sound. Excellent maintenance and vessel care keep our boats clean, primed, and ready to go!
  • Exclusive member discounts on sailing gear, SOSpenders PFDs, Helly Hansen foul weather gear, and JULBO sunglasses to name a few. Many items are stocked in our in-house sailing store.
  • Help when you need it. Our staff is here to ensure your success, and to assist you in any way possible to help you meet your sailing goals over time. The continuity that you gain through club membership is a big factor in sailing success as you grow through different abilities and stages.
  • Windworks is a US SAILING facility, which means that you are associating with sailing,s nationally recognized governing body. The US SAILING course curriculum is the national standard and is unique in it's thoroughness, standards, and credibility.
  • Windworks has the most qualified instructors in the Pacific Northwest. All are rigorously US SAILING evaluated for sailing and teaching skills, and all hold their US COAST GUARD licenses. In additional , all are selected on their ability to ensure that each student is treated with respect; that everyone is comfortable while out on the water, and that we have fun while we learn.
  • Unlike boat ownership, you can leave the worries and maintenance of boat ownership to someone else.
  • Sail a variety of boats, choosing the size and type of boat to fit the occasion. From a casual weekend overnight trip with friends, to a corporate sailing outing to impress the out of state delegation, we have the right boat for every occasion!
  • Parties and group sailing events. Windworks offers a plethora of opportunity to go sailing and socialize with other sailors! Sometimes you need extra competent crew and want to work on more skills, or maybe you just want some sailing friends to share the cost, many options are available.