Royal Brighton Yacht Club
Commodore’s Report Sailing is not just for Sailors The King’s Birthday long weekend showcased the breadth and strength of participation at Royal Brighton Yacht Club, with members competing across a range of events that highlighted sailing opportunities for all ages and experience levels. At the senior end of the fleet, RBYC and QCYC sailors took […]
Guest Speaker Dinner For our June Guest Speaker Dinner (Friday June 19th), RBYC Cruising Group stalwarts, Brenton and Robina Smith, and Craig Walton, will be entertaining us with tales of their cruises to South Australian waters in Chakana and Y-knot earlier this year. During their ten-week cruise Brenton and Robina ranged far and wide, from Kangaroo Island […]
Hi everyone, It was great to see that the majority of games were close this round. The Big Freeze Day once more raised a lot of money to help find a cure for Motor Neurone Disease. On the Field Geelong lost a second straight game by less than a kick when they fell 75-74 to […]
The fickle Spring weather once more proved to be our nemesis. Strong winds on Saturday kept the one design fleet ashore, while a passage race replaced the scheduled windward/leeward races for the keelboats contesting the York Syme (Div1), Bushy Beavis Trophy (Div 2) and the Sarawaki Cup (Div 3). Congratulations to all who competed and […]
Open to sailors of all abilities who want to experience this spectacular 20 ft sports cross keel / dinghy class The ‘Try VX One Day’ will start at 10am on 22 November 2025 on the clubs’ Hardstand (down the pier) on and will run until about 3:30pm – followed by drinks in the Members’ bar. […]
Book now for this Friday’s Guest Speaker Dinner, when Lou and Marni Irving talk on their experiences of both cruising in Tasmania and racing from Sydney and Melbourne to Tasmania. This promises to be both an interesting and an informative evening, with Lou and Marni, highlighting three themes – the natural beauty of Tasmania, the […]
A key theme at this year’s Victorian Sailing Summit held by Australian Sailing at RBYC was improving participation in sailing. However, many of the initiatives are just as applicable to other activities at our Club. In addition, there is a growing need to boost participation in Club activities and in particular for our intermediate and […]
As we go through these chilly shortest days of the year, many of our cruising colleagues have escaped Melbourne and headed north into warmer climes and / or longer days. The RBYC yacht Aquacadabra is now stopped off in Cairns, after departing Port Phillip three weeks ago and making great progress up the East Coast […]
June’s Guest Speaker Dinner will be held on Friday June 20th, and will feature John Rundell who this year, sailed Why Knot down to Hobart to take part in the 2025 Wooden Boat Festival. John will present on the highlights of the festival, along with Why Knot’s travels to get there. As usual, please book […]
Hi – I’m Andy Holmes, one of the new General Committee members who joined last year. I am a member of a working group to increase philanthropic gifting, as well as developing plans to replace the current Jock Sturrock Centre with a world class sail training facility. In fact our Commodore announced at the 150th […]