My wife Cathy and I have been members of the Fremont (California) Sailing Club for the past 32 years where we have raced El Toros, FJ's, and LIdo 14's over the years. The club has been a wonderful experience for us, enabling us to meet and befriend a great number of close friends that we hold dearly and would never had a chance to meet otherwise. I have been commodore 5 times and held many other offices repeatedly such as Fleet Captain and Race Captain, spending over 20 of those years on the Board of Directors. I was Fleet Champion in the FJ Class 5 times and the Lido Fleet Champion for the last 8 years. After moving to Redding early last year, Cathy and I were made Lifetime Honorary Members of the club in November, only the second of over 750 couples to be so honored. Join a yacht, sailing, or boating club if you can. There's a source of a great number of new friendships among many wonderful, helpful people, just like the C-Brats. Joe and Cathy.