Coast & Country Getaways Pink Day
Our annual Coast & Country Getaways Lady Skippers race was held on Saturday in glamorous conditions. Crews and skippers came dressed in their brightest and wackiest pink outfits to help raise funds for Breast Cancer Network Australia. The sun was out, with a perfect 12 or so knots blowing from the southeast. Ideal racing conditions! […]
Commodore’s Breakfast and Junior Skippers Race
This is always a special date on the BYS calendar of events! On Sunday 16 January, Gemma and Lucas organised for 54 junior and youth members to enjoy breakfast on the deck hosted by our Commodore Matt McCarthy, before heading out on eight keelboats for the Junior Skippers Race. Light conditions made for some close racing, […]
Mystery Day: an adventure day on the bay
On Wednesday 12 January our Junior Club Captains Lucas and Gemma hosted a fantastic day for 38 junior members. Aboard eight ribs the crews set off on a cruising adventure along the coast towards the Quarantine Station, then across to Queenscliff and on to Portsea beach via Pope’s Eye for lunch and beach cricket. It was a […]
Sailing wrap – 13 January
What a busy weekend of sailing! Friday night’s sailing was cancelled due to a large band of rain and thunder activity moving over the state and the peninsula throughout the day. With the weather improving overnight, the long-distance keelboat race starting at 0800 on Saturday morning looked far more promising. Ten yachts hit the start […]
Petersville 2021
It has now been two weeks since the Petersville Regatta, Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron’s premier keelboat event. We set a limit of 60 boats which was fully subscribed, with a record number of 37 visiting boats. That means nearly 400 sailors on the water which makes the Petersville by far the largest event on the BYS calendar. The […]
New to BYS: the Crew Board
To support our skippers find crew, and to get more people on the water, we have introduced from Saturday 18 December the new ‘Crew Board’ for any skippers looking for crew, or for any crew looking for a ride. The board will be opposite the kiosk and will be available for anyone, skipper or crew, to record their details […]
Sailing wrap – 8 December 2021
A strong fleet of OTB boats competed in heat 5 of the Aggregate, once again the young gun Ethan O’Brien and Sam Backwell lead the Sabre fleet with Geoff Smith on Should Have Known Better again showing consistent form finishing third. Philippa Danks sailing her Aero held off Charley McCarthy to win division 2. In the Contender fleet, […]
Vale Allan Pizzey
You may have noticed our burgee was flying half-mast the past couple of days. This is in honour of Past Commodore Allan Pizzey AM who sadly passed away last Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Allan was a member of one of the pioneer families at BYS in the 1950s and sailed a keelboat. […]
70th Season Opening Day
The 70th Season Opening Day was a big success with the sun shining and our season declared open by BYS member and Olympian Will Phillips. We also officially met our Junior Club Captains for Season 2021-22 Gemma Moorehouse and Lucas James who have lots of fun and activities planned for our junior members. A delicious BBQ lunch was […]
Sailing wrap – 24 November 2021
For once we managed to get away with a full program of sailing over the weekend, with OTB out on the water sailing heat 4 of the OTB aggregate. The afternoon race saw a large fleet of Sabres take part, with Sam Backwell showing some of the older and more experienced sailors how it’s done […]