Our Renewals Process

The WWSC membership year runs from January to December. This page explains how we renew memberships and allocate boat plaques, car park permits, and outboard store stickers for the following season. There are 2 separate parts to this - Part A: Renewing Memberships; and Part B: Renewing Boat Plaques etc. for the next season.

Part A: Renewing your annual membership subscription

To simplify things for our members we assume all existing Full Members will want to renew their memberships unless they have informed us by the 31st October in the preceding year that they want to resign or change their membership. We will remind you of the deadline towards the end of the season but the sooner you can let us know the better.

This means Full Members don't need to do anything simply to renew their annual subscriptions.

If you are a Temporary Member you will not have your membership renewed automatically. Instead, if you want to be considered for Full Membership for the following season you must submit a fresh online application by the 31st October. All applications for new Full Memberships are considered in November/December which enables the Committee to assess the Club's overall capacity to admit new members in the following season. Due to these capacity limits, the Club cannot guarantee that those joining as Temporary Members will be accepted as Full members in the following year.

All those confirmed as Full Members for the forthcoming year (i.e. both new and existing) will receive confirmation in the form of an emailed request for payment sent to the Primary Member within each membership in December.

Part B: Obtaining boat storage plaques, car park permits, and outboard store stickers for the upcoming season

We are simplifying this process for 2026 so that renewals for plaques will be managed in the same way as membership renewals.

Similar to memberships we will assume that you want to have the same plaques for the coming year as you had in the previous season unless you let us know otherwise. You do not need to create a new request each year. It is really important that you let us know if you no longer need your plaque so that we can reallocate the space to new members or those with new boats.

If demand for boat storage exceeds the available space, we will allocate plaques as fairly as possible among members.

We will confirm the items allocated to each membership by including them in the annual subscription request for payment that will be sent out to every membership in December (see above).

A few reminders

* It's really difficult deciding how to allocate boat spaces when demand exceeds capacity. Our members told us one factor we should take into account is how often a boat is used over the season. When we move boats for grass cutting in the car park sometimes it's quite clear that the boat hasn't moved. So we are trying to make sure we only issue plaques to boats that will be sailed during the season. In 2021 we started to keep records of boat use and have continued this since then.

* Children can only be part of a Family (or Parent & Child) Membership if they are under 18 on January 1 of the membership year. The Club will identify those who no longer qualify and will assume they wish to move to our reduced price Young Adult membership unless advised to the contrary. We write to their parents to find out what they want to happen. Where this means no other children are left in the previous Family or Parent & Child membership, the Club will move the parent(s) to a Partners or Single membership as appropriate.

* If a member wishes to change their membership type for any other reason, they should inform the Club Secretary as soon as possible and no later than the middle of November in the year preceding the change.

* You can only buy a plaque for a boat that you (or someone in your membership) already owns and has registered with the club. Every WWSC plaque is linked to a specific named boat. They are NOT transferable between boats. If you get a new boat part way through the season please contact the Club Secretary to check the availability of the type of plaque you need. As we have limited capacity there's a risk that all the spaces will be taken.

* There are several types of plaque available, you can read more about this on our web page here.

Last updated 14:32 on 16 October 2025