Royal Brighton Yacht Club
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 8 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 […]
Royal Brighton Yacht ClubFlag Officers and General Committeefor 2025-2026 Season FLAG OFFICERS Commodore – Peter DemuraVice Commodore – Peter GebhardtRear Commodore – Cath HurleyClub Captain – Marnie Irving Honorary Treasurer – Mark Buckley GENERAL COMMITTEE Grant DowAndy HolmesJohn MooneySteve ReynoldsBetty RyanMark Woodland
I’d like to open this week’s newsletter by highlighting the terrific article from RBYC junior member Theo Alston, which you can read below. Theo competed in the 2025 Qingdao International Optimist Training Camp and Regatta and received some financial support from the RBYC Yachting Foundation. . On behalf of all RBYC members, I’d like to congratulate Theo on […]
Qingdao International Optimist Regatta 2025 by Theo Alston My name is Theo Altson, I am 11 years old and a RBYC Junior Member. I sail an Optimist Dinghy and do Teams Racing in a Pacer. I started sailing when I was five years old in the Tackers Program at RBYC, moving up through to the Junior […]
Our next Guest Speaker Dinner will be on Friday October 17th, when Lou and Marni Irving talk on their experiences of both cruising in Tasmania and racing from Sydney and Melbourne to Tasmania, highlighting three themes – the natural beauty of Tasmania, unexpected medical issues (and how to deal with them), and the vagaries of […]
9:00 am – 11:00 am –check out the exhibition of 12 painted Etchells’ jibs, created by local school students in honour of our 150th milestone. Several of the Etchells fleet have donated the sails and the Social sub-committee has liaised with schools, while the Thursday working group has done the hard yards with the display. […]
Guest Speaker Dinners will resume in October (Friday the 17th), when we will have the pleasure of hearing from Lou and Marni Irving on their cruising in Tasmania on Cavarlo. As usual, after gathering in the Members Bar for the weekly announcements and members’ draw at 7:00pm, please join us in the Bayview Room for […]
In lieu of the annual Cruising Group Bass Strait Cruise, in 2026 we will instead be holding a Port Phillip Bay Cruise. This decision has been driven by a number of factors, not the least being that the bulk of our regular Bass Strait cruisers will either be cruising elsewhere early next year or are […]