{"id":148,"date":"2024-02-17T22:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T03:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blsa.marable.us\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2024-02-17T22:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T03:16:46","slug":"membership-benefits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/?page_id=148","title":{"rendered":"Membership Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>8 Excuses (and good reasons) to take membership<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A&nbsp;<strong>membership with BLSA<\/strong>&nbsp;offers you and your family&nbsp;<strong>value<\/strong>&nbsp;in many shapes and sizes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meeting people and making new&nbsp;<strong>friends<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Members&nbsp;<strong>helping<\/strong>&nbsp;members \u2013 rigging the boat for the first time?&nbsp; Stepping the mast for the season?&nbsp; The experience within the membership can offer a solution or a helping hand to nearly every question or need.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Crew<\/strong>&nbsp;members \u2013 the #1 reason people stop sailing or racing is the shortage of crew.&nbsp; Novice and experienced sailors are welcome.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Day sailing on the lake or&nbsp;<strong>connecting with members<\/strong>&nbsp;to rent\/charter boats in other sailing venues.&nbsp; In the dark months when the lake is closed, members have taken trips in groups to the Caribbean, West Coast and other destinations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Racing<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 the best way to learn more about your boat is racing.&nbsp; Both novice and experienced sailors take their boats out for a little competition, but the races are more about having fun!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaining sailing&nbsp;<strong>experience<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 sailing is a sport where something new is learned every time the boat goes out.&nbsp; Sailing with others is a great way to fine tune and hone your sailing skills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Raft-up<\/strong>&nbsp;weekends \u2013 nothing is better than building camaraderie amongst BLSA members.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shore-side&nbsp;<strong>activities<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 BLSA is an organization targeting the&nbsp;<strong>whole family<\/strong>.&nbsp; Social events and other activities can be found on the BLSA calendar.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Excuses (and good reasons) to take membership A&nbsp;membership with BLSA&nbsp;offers you and your family&nbsp;value&nbsp;in many shapes and sizes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blsa.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}