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 […]
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 […]
Thank you for taking the staff out for a sail last week, & Leanne SLYS for organising THE Boats -Birubi, Blue Water Tracks & SagredVolunteers Paul TGrant DMichael KLeanne GChad HIain MWarren It was greatly received especially from the hospitality and kitchen staff who normally don’t get a chance to see that side of the […]
Over the weekend two RBYC boats, Another Chapter and JAMHU, joined 21 other yachts in the 74th Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht race. This 160nm race started in Adelaide on Friday afternoon with the course taking yachts across the Gulf of St Vincent to Marion Reef at the bottom of the Yorke Peninsula, into Investigator […]
On a recent trip to New Zealand I was reminded how much we have in common with our fellow sailors when I visited the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and had a personal tour with Commodore Andrew Andrew Aitken. There’s always so much to share and so much to learn from our reciprocal clubs. The […]
Our Club was formed in 1875 and next year will celebrate its 150th year anniversary. To celebrate our anniversary, the General Committee, on the advice of a small sub-committee, have in principle approved a very exciting and comprehensive program of events during 2025. These events are in the initial planning stages and need the help […]