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Southampton Boat Show demonstrates that boat share membership continues to be the solution to low-cost sailing, says FlexiSail
Press Release • Posted at 11:59am on 13th October, 2011 • No comments yet
Leading boat share membership company FlexiSail, with fleets in both Hamble and Lymington in the Solent, has continued to expand its business during last month’s Southampton Boat Show with the signing of numerous new members to the programme and several new yachts to the FlexiSail fleet.
“The level of interest amongst owners putting their boats into a boat share membership scheme, where up to seven members can share the costs, is definitely a growing solution for keeping costs down,” comments FlexiSail Managing Director Richard Pierpoint. “In addition we are getting more of those all important members signing up where the boat is effectively theirs for 46 days of the year. It’s a great way to go sailing.”
At the Southampton Boat Show, FlexiSail not only signed up the new members but also used the show to welcome a new Dufour 375, a quality cruising yacht, into the fleet and a second motoryacht, a Nimbus 340 Commander. Both boats will be based in the company’s Hamble fleet. FlexiSail is the front running company in the UK with the largest boat share membership.
“Now that FlexiSail has extended the fleet to include motor yachts as well as sailing yachts our audience of potential clients for boat share membership has widened,” continues Richard Pierpoint. “We had not just a noticeably increased volume of traffic to our two berths during the Southampton Show, but a heightened quality of visitor too, in that the enquirers were seriously considering the FlexiSail option . The position of our pontoon berths also put us in front of a very good footfall of general visitors. We are expecting a lot of follow-up business in the coming weeks.”
“The Show indicated to us that in relatively austere times boat share membership is a growing sector which keeps the price of going sailing and the cost of owning a boat in check”, he says.
FlexiSail also used the Show to successfully promote their “Mentoring” training packages and sailing training courses that give members more time and attention than standard courses offer.