How to Join and Pay with Work Hours

Thanks for your interest in doing work to pay for a club membership!

You can work for 10 hours instead of paying $150 (or $119 if you're a student or senior) for a three month membership.

You should do the work first, then you join and log the hours on this website, and then, once the hours are approved, you can use the hours to activate your membership by using the website's membership renewal process.

Until your work hours are done and logged and approved and you've successfully "renewed" using those work hours, you won't have an active membership, so you can't sign up for lessons or cruises, sign out equipment, take online tests for ratings, etc.

First, you have to find some work to do and do it.  We don't have a volunteer coordinator, we don't have shifts, it's up to you to find the work and do it.  The dayleader can help, but it's up to you.

There are suggestions here .

You should review all of the website materials to better understand the club's workings.  Sign up for the slack channel and announcements lists to learn when there are work parties or special projects or events where your assistance could be useful.

Then, when you've performed 10 hours of work and had them approved (the dayleader can do this), you do the following:

1. sign up for a membership
2. cancel out of payment
3. log into the website, and enter your hours
4. get your hours approved
5. request "renewal" of your membership using hours
6. wait for your request to be approved (usually in a day)

Here's how you sign up:  On the website, click on Join Now, fill in your information, and click the button at the bottom of the page to sign up.

Here's how you cancel out of payment: on the next page, scroll down until you get to the text that starts with "Cancel Payment". Click on that text.

After that, you log into the website and enter your work hours, by going to Enter your Work Hours under Memberships on the top menu.

And after that, you make sure that someone (like the dayleader) approves your work hours.

Then and only then you log in and go to Renew under Memberships, and request that your membership be activated (by the Treasurer), with the hours you've logged.

The Treasurer will get an email saying you're renewing, and will activate your membership , usually on the following morning.

It's best not to sign up before you've completed the work, unless you have a lot of free time to do it.

This is because once you've signed up, you have no more than 10 days to finish the work, enter the hours, have them approved, and use them to activate your membership.  After 5 days, you'll get a reminder email that you haven't paid for your membership.  After 10 days, your signup info gets erased. You can sign up again, enter the same work hours, and go through the whole process again, but you lose the time you've spent entering the info the first time around. 

Good luck with this! Thanks for offering to volunteer, and see you at the club!