As for the YC, I too believe a small building, open 4 months a year is the way to go, and OPA could walk away every year with a nice operational profit.

However, the board does not care what property owners think on that issue, and the board will not even ask.

The process is more or less cast in stone. The board will put the new Yacht Club, as proposed by Bob Thompson, out to referendum later this summer. The board will not consider a smaller building alternative.

If the referendum passes, the board will roundly ridicule all the naysayers and build it..

If the referendum fails, the board will roundly ridicule all the naysayers and start spending lots of money patching up the YC over several years.