Sailing Club Membership Card Printing
CP Cards have been supplying Sailing Club membership cards to UK clubs and organisations for over 30 years.
Every card is printed here in England, no overseas production and delays.
Orders start from just 25 cards, free delivery is included as standard, and we'll email you a photorealistic proof before anything goes to print.
Sailing clubs typically use membership cards to confirm mooring and marina access, along with a member's RYA qualification level where the club hires out boats and needs to check competency before authorising use. Cards often distinguish full sailing members from social or non-sailing members, and some clubs print safety-boat or race-officer duty status on the card for members who volunteer on the water. Seasonal renewal is standard, tying the card to the sailing calendar.
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Example Boating Club Membership Card Prices 760 microns thick
| Quantity | Price from |
|---|---|
| 25 | £75.00 |
| 50 | £79.00 |
| 100 | £85.00 |
| 200 | £99.00 | 250 | £109.00 |
| 500Popular | £175.00 |
| 1000 | £245.00 |
Prices include free UK delivery & for one design to be printed from your print ready artwork sent to the correct specifications, see our artwork guide.
Prices exclude VAT & optional extras.
Need a different quantity? Contact us for a quote.
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Sailing Club Membership Cards printed
Almost every sailing club runs on member duties — safety boat, race officer, galley — and the card is a good place to put the obligation and the number to ring to swap it. That is the detail members actually refer back to.
Solid PVC with the print sealed inside so salt cannot get at it, full colour on both sides, free delivery within Great Britain, from 25 cards.
There are sailing club membership card examples below, and the full specification is on our membership card printing page.
What a Sailing Club Membership Card Usually Shows
The front carries the club name and burgee, the member’s name, a membership number, their category — full sailing, dinghy park, cadet, family or social — and the season. Where the club hires out boats, the member’s RYA competency level belongs there too, since it is what determines which boat they can take out without asking anyone.
Clubs that allocate dinghy park spaces annually often print the space number on the card, which saves both the member and the boat park officer a good deal of checking in April.
The reverse is where sailing clubs can do something genuinely useful, because almost every one of them runs on member duties. Safety boat crew, race officer, galley: printing the member’s duty obligation and the number to call to arrange a swap turns the card into something people actually refer to. Launch and recovery rules, where to find the tide times the club works to, and race series start times usually fill the rest.
A Card That Goes in the Water With the Sailor
Dinghy sailing is the one branch of the sport where the membership card’s owner regularly ends up in the water, and the card with them. The rest of the time it lives in a buoyancy aid pocket or a kit bag full of neoprene that will still be damp on Wednesday from Sunday’s sailing.
Salt is the real problem rather than water on its own. It dries into a fine crust that works into any seam it can find, which is precisely why laminating pouches fail so quickly at a sailing club — once salt gets behind the film at a corner there is no resealing it and the print inside is gone.
Our sailing club cards are solid 760-micron PVC with the design sealed beneath the card’s own surface. There is no film, so there is nothing for salt to get behind. Rinse the card in fresh water with the rest of your kit and it will outlast several seasons of it.
Extras That Earn Their Place at a Sailing Club
A punched 5mm hole, 6mm in from the edge, or a 15mm x 3mm slot, lets the card clip inside a buoyancy aid or hang from a lanyard. For a sport where hands are wet and pockets are full, that is a bigger practical improvement than it sounds.
Two signature strips suit the duty rota problem well. One is signed by the member, and the second, labelled for it, records the date of the last completed duty or a competency sign-off, written in pen. A strip takes an ordinary biro, so the duty officer can update it on the day rather than the club waiting for a reprint.
Colour coding is how most clubs separate cadets, senior members, social members and safety-boat-qualified crew, and it costs nothing because both sides print in full colour as standard. For a gated compound or boat park, a barcode or an RFID card handles access — RFID comes as 1K or 4K Mifare or Fudan and is supplied unencoded, so you write your own data to it.
Sailing Club Membership Card Examples
The sailing club cards below are built around the
burgee, which is a strong flat graphic and makes an excellent card front.
What varies is how much operational detail goes on the reverse — duty rota,
launch rules, race start times. Clubs that use the card properly put a lot there.
Send us your burgee and tell us how your duty system works.
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For a sailing club the quote depends on the compound. A printed card, a barcode, a
magnetic stripe and an RFID card are four different prices.
Establish what your boat park gate reads first. Then tell us your category split
— full sailing, dinghy park, cadet, family, social — and whether cards are
punched for buoyancy aids.
Quotes emailed within 10 minutes,
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Design Service
A burgee is usually all you need.
Our Design Service does the rest
for just £29 +vat
We will build both sides around the burgee, put competency where it matters for boat
hire, and lay out the duty rota and launch rules on the reverse so they are actually
usable rather than decorative.
Approved by you before printing.
Artwork Fixing Service
Burgees print beautifully as flat colour and badly as photographs, and a photograph
of the flag flying is what clubs usually have to hand.
Redrawing it as flat CMYK is part of our artwork fixing service at
just £10 +vat — and the redrawn file is then worth
keeping for the newsletter, the website and the club signage.
Free Photorealistic Email Proof
To give you complete confidence before we go to print, we’ll email you a
free, high-quality, computer-generated photorealistic proof of your full colour plastic Sailing Club membership cards.
This realistic mock-up shows how your finished Sailing Club membership cards will look, so you can check and approve the layout, text and overall design before production begins.
Fast Production Time
Sailing clubs work to lift-in and the start of the racing calendar, which for most is
a fixed spring weekend that has been in the diary since the autumn.
Production is 7 working days from proof
approval, with a 4 working day express option.
Cards want to be out before the boat park fills up and the duty rota starts. A
fortnight’s margin on lift-in is about right.
Free Delivery
FREE DELIVERY within Great Britain on any
quantity.
Sailing clubs often do have a clubhouse, but in February it may be shut and the
sailing secretary is the one doing the ordering anyway. Most orders go to a home
address.
Plain, unbranded packaging with no paperwork inside. If cadet cards go to a separate
cadet secretary, tell us and we will box them apart.
Made in England
Where cadets, senior members, social members and safety crew are separated by card
colour, those colours have to
hold their meaning across seasons.
Every run coming off the same press from the same stock is what makes that true, and
a club will have several seasons’ cards in circulation at any one time.
We keep your artwork on file, so a reorder is a new season and a member list.
100% Recyclable
Season cards are replaced annually and the old ones discarded, which for a club of
a few hundred is a steady annual volume.
Ours are solid PVC and recycle through
standard household and commercial facilities. The
laminated cards they replace cannot be separated into their layers and so cannot be
recycled at all.
Biodegradable cards handle salt exactly as
well.
Optional Extras
Two extras suit sailing clubs particularly.
Hole or slot punching — a 5mm hole 6mm in from the edge, or a
15mm x 3mm slot — lets the card clip inside a buoyancy aid, which is where it
needs to be. And a second signature strip records the date of the
last completed duty in pen, so the duty officer can update it on the day.
RFID, magnetic strips and barcodes all handle
compound gates.
Our vast range of optional extras combined with our competitive prices and fast, friendly service makes us a market leader which keeps our customers returning time after time as well as recommending us.
The majority of cards that we print have a signature strip and also a unique number which is usually sequential however you can supply an Excel document and we can print the details from the document onto the cards so each one has unique details. For example, their name, membership number, expiry date, level of membership etc.
Membership Card Specifications
760-micron solid PVC,
Full Colour (CMYK)
on both sides at no extra cost, design
sealed beneath the surface — no laminate
film, so there is nothing for salt to work in behind.
Premium matt is the better finish on the water,
where gloss throws glare off wet surfaces in low sun.
Both finishes cost the same.
Bureau Personalisation Service
Cadet sections recruit through the season, family memberships change, and crew join
after an open day — so a sailing club rarely knows its full list in February.
Our Bureau Personalisation Service covers the
gap. We hold your printed stock; you email new members’ details and we print
and post their cards
within 3 working days.
No guessing at quantities in the spring, and no leftover cards in October.
A Plastic Card to Approve
If the card opens the compound, get a physical one and test it on the gate.
RFID cards are supplied unencoded, so the question is whether your system writes to
them and your reader sees them. That is a quarter of an hour with one card, against
an expensive discovery with three hundred.
We will print one from your artwork and post it out.
Artwork Specifications & Guides
Two points from the guide for a sailing card.
Policy, not codes. Print how compound access works, not the code
itself — a card with the gate code on it is a problem the first time one is
dropped on a slipway.
Keep the punch clear. If cards clip into buoyancy aids, leave the
5mm hole position free of artwork.
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How to Order your Membership Cards
Usually the membership or sailing secretary, in the weeks before lift-in.
Send the burgee, the category list and numbers, and what the compound gate needs.
Approve the emailed proof and the cards arrive before the boats go in. We keep the
artwork, so next season is an email with a new year and an updated list.
Sailing Clubs Membership card examples
Do you see a design that you like?
A sailing card below close to yours?
Say which and we will work from it.
Clubs normally keep the layout — burgee placement, where competency sits, how
the duty rota is set out on the reverse — and change the burgee, colours and
category names. Part of the
Design Service.
Sailing Club Membership Card FAQs
Can sailing club cards confirm mooring and marina access?
Yes. Membership category and any allocated dinghy park or mooring space can both be printed on the card, so compound and boat park access can be checked by eye or by a gate reader.
Can the card show RYA qualification level?
Yes. Where the club hires boats, competency level is one of the most useful things on the card, since it decides what a member can take out. It can also be updated on a signature strip in pen.
Can safety-boat or race-officer duty status be shown on the card?
Yes. Most clubs print the duty obligation on the reverse along with the number to call to swap, and use a signature strip to record the date of the last completed duty.
What's the minimum order?
25 cards, so a club can order for its cadet section or a single category rather than for the whole membership at once.
Will salt water ruin the cards?
No. They are solid PVC with the design sealed beneath the card's own surface, so there is no laminate film for salt to work in behind. Rinse them with the rest of your kit.
Can the card clip inside a buoyancy aid?
Yes. We punch a 5mm hole 6mm in from the edge, or a 15mm x 3mm slot, so the card stays with the sailor rather than in a car at the top of the slipway.
Can we colour-code cadets and social members differently?
Yes, at no extra cost. Both sides print in full colour as standard, so cadets, senior members, social members and safety crew can each have their own card colour.
Can the cards open our compound or boat park gate?
Yes. A barcode in Code39, Code128 or EAN5 works with most systems, and RFID cards in 1K or 4K suit contactless readers. RFID is supplied unencoded for you to write your own data to.