Where Southern California's yacht clubs lose time.

Six things the scan says

Figures exclude Pierpont Bay Yacht Club, which already runs the program and serves as the reference.

1. Paying the club is where the time goes. Across 78 sites reviewed several pages deep, 53 offer some online payment publicly (24 through a third-party button such as PayPal or Venmo that reconciles outside the club's books), 15 likely take payments inside a club-management platform behind sign-in, 4 have a member sign-in with no payment visible publicly, and 6 show no payment path and no sign-in at all. In every case the treasurer still reconciles by hand; the gap is one ledger, not a pay button.
2. Members can't act, only read. 30 sites have no RSVP or ticket path and 36 have no way to volunteer. 19 have no member login at all, so rosters and directories live in spreadsheets.
3. Racing is visible but manual. 62 clubs show a racing program; 53 of them have no crew board, 23 publish no results page and 18 run on PDFs alone. 27 send entries to an external service, which means fees and results live off-site.
4. Facilities are run on lists. 50 clubs have slips, moorings or dry storage, and 39 rent the venue, yet only 29 of the slip clubs offer any online booking path.
5. The platform doesn't fix it. 11 different platforms are in use, from club-management vendors to page builders, and average friction is within one point across all of them. The vendors handle a roster; nobody handles the whole club.
6. A visible minority is at risk. 12 sites have stopped updating, 7 are not built for phones, 4 are served over plain HTTP and 9 were unreachable, erroring or absent.

Priority clubs

The ranked club list, outreach tiers and revenue projections are in the internal version of this report.

Method and caveats

• Reference clients already on the program are shown on the index and have their own pages but are excluded from every figure and ranking here.
• Source data: the SCYA member directory (names, burgees, websites, founding years, member counts where published, facilities, associations). Member counts are known for 53 of 87 clubs.
• Each club's public site was crawled up to 14 pages deep on 2026-10-22 (home page plus the pages most likely to show payments, membership, events, racing and facilities, and script bundles for client-rendered sites) and scored on about thirty signals (payments, portal, calendar and RSVP, racing documents and results, facilities, HTTPS, mobile viewport, staleness, platform). 78 of 83 sites responded.
• Scores are heuristics from the home page only. Anything behind a member login, on a sub-page or on a vendor portal is invisible to the scan, so wording is deliberately careful: "not visible" means we could not see it from public pages, not that it does not exist. Where a club-management platform or a member sign-in exists, payments are assumed possible behind it and scored lightly.
• Average friction is similar across platforms, so platform is a weak predictor; member count and the specific missing paths matter more for prioritisation.
• Revenue scenarios use list prices and assume no discounts; they are there to size the opportunity, not to forecast it.