In our Introduction to Bareboat Cruising Course no previous experience is required, we assume nothing and hit the ground running. You will be drawing lines on charts well within an hour starting the course. The course covers: Cruising preparation Tides Anchorage Navigation marks Introduction to chart work including plotting a course At the end of […]

The series has still to reach the halfway mark but already 4 races have been abandoned – 1 in April, 2 in May and now 1 in June. There is still a way to go before a record for the number of abandoned races in series will be set. In both the 2009 and 2010 […]

Rod Smallman’s journey to Osaka followed an unusual path. Having set out to build a boat for the race, Rod decided half way through the lead time to the event that his new boat wasn’t going to be ready and so he bought a new one race-ready. With no ocean racing experience behind them Rod […]

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When it came to an end at 15:41:27 this became the quickest but not the shortest race of the series. The 32 yacht fleet had completed the 9.8 nautical mile course 24 in an average elapsed time of 1:32:23. Although the late starters struggled to catch the early starters it was the closest finish of […]

              ORCV Winter Series  Sailing instructions are now out https://orcv.org.au/race-documents  First race is June 22nd is a short passage race starting off RMYS.  Enter the winter series (5 races) or enter individual races.    Weather Course:  The next 2 modules of the weather course series, look at what you need to know for […]

Dear OTB sailors and friends, Our 2018/2019 OTB Sailing Program has now concluded with the last of our Winter Series completed on Sunday. The wind never really settled, but Alex Newman who was PRO for the first time managed to add another two races to the series tally to make it 12 in total. It has been […]

Celebrate the Clubhouse’s 10th Birthday with two bands performing in the Port Phillip Room – doors open 7:00pm; – SYC’s own The Black Flags (8:00pm) and – Tusk – The Storybook Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (9:00pm) Come in early and grab a meal from the Member’s Bar – servery open at the earlier time of 5:30pm (until 9:30pm) or […]