Introduction to Fractional Sailing
Experience all the pleasures of sailing your own boat without the hassles or expenses of ownership. Our unique sailing program allows you to maximize all the privileges and enjoyment of sailing without the worries of docking fees, repairs and off-season storage costs.
Points of Sail
Sail when you want to. not when you're assigned to!
After five years in business, positive customer feedback convinces us that our system is the best in the business. The problem with other systems of sharing a boat, is that they make a lot of assumptions about what you want, and they assign you days you didn’t ask for.
- Is a Friday evening in mid-May worth as much to you as a Friday evening in August?
- If a fancy computer algorithm assigns you a time slot you can’t use, should that count as part of your usage? (What makes matters worse, if you hang on the spot just in case, nobody else will have those days available either.)
- What if you are out of town for the whole month of July? Why get assigned dates you won’t use?
Points of Sail is designed so that each participant can set his or her own priority. Using a points-based bidding system, members will be able to structure a schedule that meets their needs. If your primary goal is a week-end cruise, you can bid to spend more of your points on a block of time that allows you to do so. Similarly, if your goal is boating during Chicago’s special waterfront events, getting in as many weeknight sails as possible, or taking the family out on Saturdays, the Points of Sail program will help you get what you want.
Over the course of each season, each Broad Reach member will have 5000 points to spend on the time slots. The minimum price a time slot is 100 points for weekdays and 150 for weekends and holidays. Thus, if you have a lot of flexibility in your schedule, you could end up with as many as 50 half-day time slots. However, if you really want to make sure that you have the boat on the third weekend in June, you would bid more points to make sure you get those dates.
If all time slots were equally desirable, and everyone picked different slots each month, each slot would be “worth” 150 points. In general, bids of 100-150 points will secure off-peak weekday slots, but a higher bid is recommended if the exact timing is critical. For weekends, the slots can be expected to average 200-250 about points, but again if a certain day is very important, you should bid higher.
For more details on our scheduling system, please contact us.
