I have a terrible confession to make. In the year and a half that I have owned a C34, I haven't joined the association despite receiving an incredible amount of value from this forum. Oddly, I am a member of the C36 association which I joined when I borrowed their cutlass bearing tool (and I recieve the mainsheet from them). Honestly, the reason I haven't joined the C34 association to date is not the $25 bucks. It's that I can't get around to printing out the application form, finding a stamp and an envelope and mailing it in with a check. You would think that I could spend one of the many hours I spend perusing the forum to accomplish this simple task, but it is what it is. I know this makes me the laziest person alive. But I might not be the only one. The C36 membership can be obtained online using payments through pay pal. You can renew that way was as well. Would it be worth jazzing up the "join" page on the website (perhaps accepting paypal or credit cards) so that someone enjoying the forum could be just a few clicks away from membership? Perhaps we could even have a banner or some other type of direct link to the "join" page from the forum. It could say something like, support this forum join or renew your membership today with a link. Then we could sit back and rely on forum user's guilt (or fear of being an ingrate) to swell the membership.