Media Release – ORCV Winter Series Race 1 Learning to sail in everything, provides Ambition in itself. …. Chris Dare Winter sailing in Melbourne always provides a challenge as seen in yesterday’s ORCV Winter Series race 1 with light winds. ORCVV Winter Series started 26 on the line in 2 divisions. The ORCV Race Director […]

On what was the coldest Wednesday afternoon this series the race around the 10 nautical mile course 27 was the longest so far. Even so, all 30 yachts, including two visitors sailing for the first time, finished the race with over 30 minutes to spare. In what was a predominantly west south westerly breeze that […]

Sail Sandy is SYC’s premier annual OTB regatta which will be held on the 12-13 October. This regatta typically attracts up to 200 boats each year and is shaping up to be much bigger this year with an expected 200+ boats! The regatta is open to all Monohull and Catamaran Off The Beach boats with […]

              ORCV Winter Series  ORCV Winter Series, Race 2 – 6th July starts from RBYC and is a longer passage to Blairgowrie.  The annual flare shoot will be prior to the start at 9am and we invite all participants of this race to join in and practice letting off […]

Mild winter weather welcomed Sunday Sailors to race 4 of the series. A fleet of 24 yachts contested a race that had plenty of sunshine and a light northerly breeze that averaged about 8 knots with gusts up to 11 knots at Fawkner Beacon. The breeze tended to ease as the race progressed. What started […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]