Royal Brighton Yacht Club
MEMBER NEWS: A large contingent of Cruising Group members spent several days this past week “land cruising” to Halls Gap and exploring the Grampians. By all accounts, a grand time was had by all. At the same time Rear Commodore Peter Gebhardt and Alison have abandoned Melbourne for the warm climes of Queensland and were last […]
During the weekend just past, the Club ran the Big Boat Day for OTB sailors. Originally developed by the RBYC Cruising Group, the Big Boat Day gives OTB sailors of all ages and their parents the opportunity to experience sailing on a keelboat. This year 9 skippers kindly donated their yachts and crew allowing 50 […]
The Cerberus Picnic This is the first in a series of short snippets about our club’s history, which we will periodically share with readers in the Tuesday newsletter. If you know of some interesting club history, please let us know. Did you know that between 1903 and 1918, our club had a branch at Half Moon Bay, […]
Debbie Jonker – General Committee The boating lifestyle attracts me because no experience on any day on the water or in a marina is ever the same! The water changes colour or temperature, the wind changes far too regularly too. In Victoria at Wilson’s Prom we were so cold last June that we jumped into […]
On the field: in this week’s Thursday night clash, Richmond hit back hard versus Carlton (as expected) after their first half-capitulation last week against the Suns. The game was close all night with ten lead changes. The Blues had a slightly better final quarter to emerge with a five-point win. On Friday night, the Sydney […]
From the 9th-11th of March, four RBYC junior sailors: Eddie Barron, Jenson Oldham, Oliver Martin, and I (Nathan Stanford) participated in the 29er state championships at the Sorento Sailing Couta Boat club. For all of us, this was our first time sailing a 29er regatta and it was such an amazing experience. On the first […]
Edward Jukes, Charlie Chidlow and Theo Altson represented RBYC over the long weekend participating in their first Optimist State Championships after progressing through the Tackers Program at RBYC and now sailing in the GreenFleet on Sunday afternoons building their skills and experience. There were 70 young Optimist Sailors that converged on Sandringham Yacht Club from […]
I hope you are coping with this weekend’s heatwave (Victorian tipsters). Undoubtedly, the AFL is happy they didn’t schedule any games here in Victoria this weekend. Welcome: we have quite a few new tipsters to our competition, and I extend a big welcome to John Trajanovski, Deb Abraham, Sally McBriar, Kate McIntyre, David Tong, Jo O’Shaughnessy, Matt […]
MARCH GUEST SPEAKER DINNER: Friday March 15th, 2024 In the winter of 2023, Past Commodore Peter Strain and his son Richard cruised It’s a Privilege out on the Great Barrier Reef, visiting 25 reefs and 15 islands, from Lady Elliot Island in the south to just beyond Townsville and Magnetic Island in the north. An […]
Dear RBYC members The BOM has issued a heatwave warning for this weekend in Melbourne. To ensure that all care is taken for the well-being of our Volunteers and Instructors and in consultation with our Club Captain (Marnie Irving) we have decided to cancel the planned Saturday Artemis Pursuit Race this weekend and Saturday and Sunday […]