Dues

Membership Options

General
Rates

U of M Student
Rates

Annual (One Person)
$280 $185
Annual (Family)
$425 $297
Spring and Summer (May 1 – Aug 31) N/A $100
Academic Year (Sept 1- Apr 30) N/A $100

PURCHASE A GENERAL MEMBERSHIP
UM Student Memberships

Membership Form (Must be filled out after you join)
A waiver must also be signed once every calendar year.

All purchases are final.
We make no guarantees about providing you specific instruction as we are not a sailing school nor do we make any guarantees for any other perquisites of membership. If you wish to no longer be a member for any reason, you will forfeit your membership fee. Should for any reason the Executive Board vote to refund your dues or you file a charge back, you will incur a $20 administrative fee.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Anyone is welcome to visit the club twice without obligation before deciding whether to join.

  • Family Membership: Includes two adults in a relationship (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife,spouse, or significant-other) or a single parent, plus their dependents and children who live at the same address.
  • Student Membership: A student means any individual who is registered as a student at the University of Michigan for the current term or who was registered during the previous term.
  • Student Family Membership: Rate applies if anyone in the family is a Student. (as defined in above)
  • Memberships are rounded backwards or forwards to the nearest month. Upon renewal,the expiration date is incremented one year.

Dues allow use of the club sailboats, sailboards, canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddle boards, facilities as well as sailing courses, instruction, racing, and any other classes offered.

We require that anyone using the club boats or facilities sign our Liability Waiver

Children under age eighteen shall be supervised by a parent or other adult at all times. University of Michigan Students under eighteen who are Members are exempt from this rule.


 

 

Official Dues Policy:

  1. A Family Membership includes two adults in a relationship (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife,spouse, or significant-other) or a single parent, plus their dependents and children who live at the same address.
  2. A Student is defined as in the club constitution: ​A Student means any individual who is registered as a student at the University of Michigan for the current term or who was registered during the previous term.
  3. The Student Family rate applies if anyone in the family is a Student. (as defined in #2 above)
  4. Annual memberships are rounded backwards or forwards to the nearest month. Upon renewal,the expiration date is incremented one year.
  5. (Missing from last official dues policy)
  6. Sailing Team memberships:
    1. Sailing Team members pay dues to the team, and the team remits to the club one half the Student academic year rate for the first twenty Team members and $5 per Team member thereafter.
    2. Team members current on their dues to the team are considered dues-paying club members with all the privileges of any other club member.
  7. The Executive Board may give free or reduced-price memberships
    1. To charitable causes;
    2. As part of the deal when buying or selling used equipment;
    3. In thanks for a non-member making a substantial donation of goods or services;
    4. Or in other circumstances that it judges to be in the club’s interest.

We require that anyone using the club boats or facilities sign our Liability Waiver

Children under age eighteen shall be supervised by a parent or other adult at all times. University of Michigan Students under eighteen who are Members are exempt from this rule.