The INA's Membership Survey

If you’re an INA member, you very recently received a request to participate in a survey of our membership.

The email went out about 90 minutes before I wrote this post, and we already have about 20 responses. Not bad for late Sunday night on the west coast and really late on the east.

There’s a reason that I’m posting this, above and beyond encouraging the roughly 650 members who have not yet responded to do so.

There are going to be lots of ways to slice and dice the data that’s coming in. I’d really love to hear from people: what questions about your fellow owners has it triggered you to think about?

Are people interested in the mix of racers vs. cruisers? What an “average” N26 owner looks like? Which size boats have the most owners thinking about new engines? What’s the meaning of life? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck? Can you lend me $100 ‘til payday?

Some of those we can answer from the survey, some we can’t.

But if folks want to post what’d interest you most, that’d definitely help prioritize analyzing the results.

– Bob
Me Gusta
Nonsuch e26U #233
Past Co-President, International Nonsuch Association
Lead Survey Perpetrator

Where can I find the survey? Can it be sent back to me at nnwneiderer@gmail.com

Norm,

That appears to be the email address you used for becoming an INA member (I’ve got admin privileges, so I can see all sorts of things).

So you should already have gotten the survey by email to that address, since it was mass-emailed to all the INA members.

If it’s not in that email box, drop a note to PastPresident@Nonsuch.org (which, it turns out, is also me) and I’ll look into it.

– Bob

I’m all signed in and after filling the first page of the survey, Survey Monkey won’t let me access the next page. I’m stuck, and don’t know what to do.
Cheers,
Norm

A couple of people have had problems with question #7. They seem to go away if you fill in the fields for that question with only numbers, no text.

If that turns out not to be your problem, Norm, would you mind shooting a note to PastPresident@Nonsuch.org with your phone number and some suggestions about good times for me to call you?

– Bob

Bob,
Thanks for your help. You are right, it looks like an email problem. I signed in to INA with nnwneiderer@gmail.com
and the form comes under my original email address of neiderer@shaw.ca
Now, I must change it to the gmail address, but it’s not so easy. I wish I was a teenager instead of 81 years old, it would be done in two seconds.
Cheers,
Norm

If you have a lot of trouble changing it, Norm, contact Helen Dakin Membership@Nonsuch.org and ask her for help.

I wish I was a teenager, too, at least until I remember what I was like back then. If I was a teenager now, I’d have to whup myself upside the head and tell me to grow up.

– Bob

Tried getting on to do the survey but the Monkey says it’s closed. Did I miss something or hit the wrong key?

Ed,

It should still be open. Could you have responded to an older copy I’d sent as a test to INA Board members?

Try this link: Copy of MEMBERSHIP SURVEY:INTERNATIONAL NONSUCH ASSOCIATIONEst. time required to complete: 10-15 min.V7-19-2025

– Bob

Hey all,

The INA Membership Survey sent out about a month ago now has responses from over a third of the INA membership.

My understanding from survey experts is that anyone with that many responses earns the right to pat themselves on the back.

However, I thought instead I’d take the opportunity to remind people who haven’t yet submitted that it’s not too late.

If you haven’t already, please go to: Copy of MEMBERSHIP SURVEY:INTERNATIONAL NONSUCH ASSOCIATIONEst. time required to complete: 10-15 min.V7-19-2025

Or, if you’re a glutton for punishment and want to try out an untested feature, point your phone or tablet’s camera at this QR code:

There have been, frankly, a few glitches. We’ve had about seven members who SurveyMonkey somehow refused to let finish the survey. We managed to get four of them past the block, but never figured out the others. If that happens to you, drop a note to PastPresident@Nonsuch.org, and I’ll either figure it out or apologize profusely and somewhat sincerely.

– Bob