Keelboat End of Season Review – 21 June
Friday, 1st June 2018
The Sail Committee invites all keelboat sailors to provide your feedback on the 2017/2018 sailing season on the 21 June at 7:30 in the Port Phillip Room.
Friday, 1st June 2018
The Sail Committee invites all keelboat sailors to provide your feedback on the 2017/2018 sailing season on the 21 June at 7:30 in the Port Phillip Room.
Friday, 1st June 2018
Last Friday 25 May, the 2018 Mercedes-Benz Brighton Sail Presentation was held in the Port Phillip Room to celebrate the success of yet another sailing season. Congratulations to all of our winners! On the night, Jack Fullerton was awarded 2018 Lou Abrahams Intermediate of the Year award. Jack has been an outstanding contributor to a […]
Friday, 1st June 2018
The annual Victorian Sailing Awards are being held at Sandringham Yacht Club tonight in the Port Phillip Room at 7:30pm. The awards night reflects on the success of Victorian club members in the various sailing and boating events held over the last 12 months. There are a number of SYC members who have been nominated […]
Monday, 28th May 2018
This is the second time course 28 has been selected for a race this series. It was selected for race 6 and has been successful on both occasions. All starters in each race successfully completed the course. Conditions for the two races were quite different. For race 6 there was an 18 knot northerly whilst […]
Friday, 25th May 2018
Apollo Bay Yacht race Well done to all the SYC yachts who participated in the ORCV Apollo Bay Race on Saturday 19th May 2018, which is the last ocean race in the ORCV 2017/2108 season. This 52 nautical mile yacht race started at 3.30am Saturday morning in front of Queenscliff in cold and wet conditions, […]
Friday, 25th May 2018
Team SYC have done it again! Congratulations to Heather Macfarlane, Cath Furey, Freya Vickery, Maddie Linton and Kate Goss who managed to claim victory for SYC in what was an extremely closely fought series with only two points separating the top three Clubs! Overall results are as follows: 1st – Sandringham Yacht Club 2nd – Royal […]
Saturday, 19th May 2018
With a forecast of a 10 to 15 knot breeze something stronger than what was received could have been expected. The start of the race did see a breeze of the higher strength but it had eased at Fawkner by 1430 to less than 10 knots. The average for the afternoon was about 11 knots. […]
Monday, 14th May 2018
With an average speed of about 18 knots from the NNW this was the strongest wind of the series so far. The breeze produced something of a lumpy sea but ensured all 39 yachts completed the 10.1 nautical mile course 28 in record time. By comparison the average course length of the first 5 races was […]
Friday, 11th May 2018
The start of the 2018 Winter Series sees 30 yachts entered in the aggregate – more than the 2017 winter series. Twenty two of the 30 as well as three casual entries took part in the opening race around the 9.9 nautical mile course 26 in amiable conditions. The course offered two good downwind legs […]