72nd Season Opening Day 2023
On Saturday we celebrated the Opening of our 72nd Sailing Season. The day began with a morning tea, hosted by our Commodore Martin Kudnig and the Executive Committee in the Southern Waters Room to welcome our invited guests before the Official Season Opening on the lawn, where Rear Commodore Ian Delmenico guided us as our […]
Regional and National Race Officer Seminar – 19-20 August 2023
Race Officers play an important role in sailing by enabling competition at all levels. They do this through assisting the regatta planning process and conducting quality racing for club through to championship events. Current Club Race Officers or volunteers aspiring to work towards becoming qualified Regional Race Officers are encouraged to have a chat with […]
BYS sailors take on winter sailing at the SSCBC Midwinters
Over the long weekend a group of BYS sailors made the long trek to Sorrento for their Midwinters regatta. In the ILCA6’s, Gus McIntyre and Lucas James took the final opportunity to sharpen their skills before heading to Poland for the Youth World’s in a couple of weeks. Will James, Fred O’Brien and Abby Young […]
Harding-Wilmot 49erFX campaign update
As many of you may already know, Annie Wilmot and I are on our campaign towards the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to represent Australia in the 49erFX class. We are currently in Spain finishing up a training camp and head to the Olympic waters of Marseille in a week’s time for another training block. We […]
Sailing Champions League, Asia-Pacific Final
On the weekend of the 20-21 May, the five of us (Ed Warner, Pip Danks, Sally Danks, Hamish Bolton and Sam Batty) headed up to Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club in Newport NSW to compete in the Sailing Champions League Asia-Pacific Final. Without a reliable wind forecast available, we didn’t really know what to expect […]
SYC Commodore’s Challenge for Women in Sailing
BYS was invited to put a female team together to sail in the Commodore’s Cup at Sandringham in their training boats, Beneteau 7.5s. So on Saturday, our team consisting of myself as skipper, Dawn Havis main sheet, Debbie Goodin, Nellie Kudnig and Sally Derham on foredeck had a practice sail on the Saturday morning in […]
Presentation Night & Season 2022-2023 Results
Season 2022-23 SPECIAL AWARDS Bryan McCarthy Trophy – Best 1st year Minnow sailor Isobel Ogilvie Brown Family Trophy – Junior Sailor of the Year Will Hailes Maclean Award – Best Youth Sailor Angus McIntyre Instructor of the Year Harriette Singh Assistant Instructor of the Year Jess Batty Volunteer of the […]
BYS Sailors at Sail Bellarine
Sail Bellarine at Indented Head– BYS Aerospace on the podium Last weekend a dedicated team from our RS Aero fleet (Paul Rogers, Paul Smart and Simon Pluim) travelled to Indented Head to compete in the Sail Bellarine Regatta, hosted by St Leonards, Portarlington and Indented Head Yacht Clubs. We were joined by BYS talented J-70 […]
2023 Int. Contender Victorian Championship
The Victorian Contender Championships were sailed in Somers on the weekend. 36 boats entered from 4 states with interstate entrants from Adelaide, Canberra and Gosford. We had 3 races on Saturday in a variable and patchy wind of around 10-12 knots, with a lumpy sea state. Callum Burns had some good results to be positioned […]
OTBs at BYS
Some photos of the OTB fleet at BYS March 2023 After my lunch with friends today, l took some shots of the off the beach boats. So much excitement out there today at the start. Everyone running to get their boats in & get to the start on time Fascinating to watch up close. So much energy […]
