Presentation Night & Season 2023-2024 Results

Season 2023-24 SPECIAL AWARDS Bryan McCarthy Trophy – Best 1st year Minnow sailor Natasha Thomas Brown Family Trophy – Junior Sailor of the Year Hugh Backwell   Maclean Award – Best Youth Sailor Angus McIntyre   Instructor of the Year Samantha Batty Assistant Instructor of the Year Cassie McCarthy   Volunteer of the Year Veronique […]

2024 J70 Victorian State Championships

BYS recently hosted the J70 2024 Victorian State Championships. It was a fantastic event with 8 quality races over two days. The wind refused to build on the scheduled 3rd day and racing was abandoned by lunchtime, allowing for boats to be packed up early and for the interstate boats to get on the road. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Australian Sailing Personal Accident Insurance

Like most National Sporting Organisations, Australian Sailing provides whole-of-sport Personal Accident insurance coverage. Within our sport, this covers financial members of affiliated clubs, Discover Sailing Centre students and SailPass holders, primarily when participating in sailing races and training activities. What this means for clubs: All financial members of Australian Sailing Affiliated Clubs continue to be […]

BYS Sailors Around The Country

BYS Sailors Around The Country While summer is a hive of activity at the club, it’s also titles season with many of our sailors travelling to compete in events around the county. The ILCA 2023 Open and Youth Championships were held at Georges River Sailing Club (NSW) at the beginning of January with BYS youth […]

Sail Office Update

News From The Sailing Office Commodores Breakfast & Junior Skipper Race The Sailing Office is seeking expressions of interest to see who is interested in participating in The Commodores Breakfast and Junior Skipper Race on 15 January 2023. This will take place as part of Junior and Youth Sail Training. It will be a breakfast […]

Keelboat Training & Development

Keelboat Training & Development Keelboat Start Crewing / SheSails Keelboat Experience / Keelboat Racing Experience The Training and Development Courses continue to ramp up as we have officially moved into Summer. This week we kicked off with a Friday night Racing Experience Course on a J70.  With Gordon Hyde as Instructor, this course allows participants […]

Upcoming Regattas

Women’s Sportsboat Regatta, 19 & 20 November Sailing Journeys Dinner, Sat 19 November Our Women’s Sportboat regatta is less than a fortnight away. At this stage, we look forward to welcoming ten teams from around the bay and NSW for our inaugural regatta. There is still room for two more teams to enter, please take […]

Presentation Night & Season 2021-2022 Results

Off The Beach Season 2021-22 winners MINNOWS / SKIFFS Albatross II – Alby Moorhouse 1st Perpetual Shield 2nd The Aggregate 2nd Southern Waters Trophy 2nd Wooden Boat Shop Sunset Series 3rd Class Trophy Green Eggs and Ham – Will Hailes 1st The Aggregate 2nd Perpetual Shield 2nd Class Trophy Mako – Will James 1st Class […]