Can anybody say "Country Club Republican"? What's next, a Rockefeller family endorsement?
You can't compare Yacht clubs and country clubs. The latter are filled with of snobs. The former, with a few exceptions, mainly consist of bunch of sailors who like to get together and drink.
A lot of yacht clubs are run on shoestring budgets, though I don't know about this one. At the yacht club my parents belonged to when I was growing up the members did nearly all the maintenence. The only people we had on the payroll were the cook, who was there only on weekends, and the bartenders, who were there either on the weekends or after a weeknight race. Oh, and I think we had a janitor who came in a couple times a week and maybe after a big event. That was it.