Royal Brighton Yacht ClubNiesje Hees, Secretary Etchells Melbourne Fleet, National Secretary IECAA, RBYC GC member Mid Gybe Crisis AUS 1277 How did you get into sailing? I did a beginners course in New Zealand with Penny Whiting in my late twenties. I’ve been doing some sort of sailing ever since then. Why did you choose to sail Etchells? […]
RBYC sailors at AWKR Female club members enjoyed a terrific long weekend of sailing in the Australian Women’s Keelboat Regatta (AWKR) held at RMYS, in some challenging conditions. Serious Yahoo finished third overall on Event Handicap. On board were co-owner Vanessa Twigg, Sue Neales, Bronwyn Mc Ilveen, Cath Hurley and Louise Le Fevre. Katie Holroyd […]
After the past few Covid-disrupted years, RBYC is reinvigorating the OTB sailing program and looking forward to growing our sailing fleet including a range of classes such as Lasers, Aeros, Rs100s, 420s, Quests and Optis as well as other classes.We would love to see you join us as we rebuild the OTB racing and social […]
Skippers are now able to enter a race series online via the Race Entry app. This will enter you in all races of that series. This is done via the sign-on app on your smart device. You will still have to do the boat and crew sign on each week in the usual way Or […]
The club’s trivia night, which had been postponed the last two years due to the pandemic, made a much-anticipated return last Friday night. Emcee and quiz master Don Warner and his wife Carolyn hosted a fun evening in the Bayview Room. The event sold out in advance with 150 tickets sold. The 15 tables were […]
Clinic dates This course will run in the second week of the Victorian school holidays. The clinic will run 9am to 1pm each day. 4th -7th July 2022 Full information and bookings HERE
Wonderful news. Young Royal Brighton Yacht Club (RBYC) sailor Charlotte Wormald (Lottie) has now been selected to represent Australia at the 51 Youth World Sailing Championships in the Netherlands, this July. The recent Victorian State Championships was the selection regatta for the Australian Sailing Youth Team and Charlotte won the Victorian State Youth Sailing Championships […]
It will soon become a requirement of all AS affiliated clubs to under take Safety Equipment Audits for their vessels under taking racing. At the moment only cats 1-3 required an external audit. Moving forward a qualified Club Equipment Auditor (CEA’s) will be required to undertake an audit of boats holding a Cat 4 – […]
Club Safety Auditors Expressions of interest:We are looking for club members that would like to become AS Club Equipment Auditors (CEA). We are looking for a team of 8 -12 to get qualified and then be available to undertake the mandatory Equipment Audits of the RBYC racing fleet. More information Racing:The May Series is about […]
June 17th, 7:30pm, RBYC Bayview Room Owing to the vagaries of COVID, we have had to make a last minute change to our Guest Speaker for this Friday’s Forum Dinner in the Bayview Room. For our June Dinner, our Guest Speakers will now be Doug and Sandra Williams, who, since 2010, have extensively cruised the […]