Burgee Exchange
John and Jenny Petschel joined very proud parents Jonathon and Lucy Harding at the Reial Club Nautic de Barcelona (or shortened to Real Club Nautico) on Wednesday 2 October for the PUIG Women’s America’s Cup in Barcelona Opening Cocktail Party. Laura and RCNB President Jordi Puig exchanged burgees between the two clubs before the sailors […]
BYS 2024-25 Opening Day
Celebrating Our 73rd Sailing Season Last Saturday, members and guests gathered in the Southern Waters Room to mark the start of our 2024 – 25 sailing season. Vice Commodore Ian Delmenico welcomed everyone, followed by Commodore Martin Kudnig sharing an overview of the season ahead. Rear Commodore Georgina Plumridge proudly introduced our newly appointed Junior […]
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Club Person of the Year 2024
Kirsten Binns Smith awarded as Club Person of the Year, receiving the Ian Pender Award. A very worthy recipient, Kirsten was presented with her achievement at last Saturday’s Annual General Meeting by BYS Rear Commodore, Ian Delmenico. Our newest member to the Club Person of the Year cohort is the classic quiet achiever – and […]
J-70 Corinthian World Championships Copenhagen, Denmark 2024
J-70 ‘Sequel’ AUS 828 – A ‘Bucket List’ Adventure When Matthew O’Brien and I purchased J-70 1680 Skyhook from Tony Landgren early this year, we could have never imagined, that some 14 weeks later, we would be competing with Matt’s brother Sean O’Brien and Tony in the World Corinthian J/70 Championships in Denmark! At short […]
Aussies support our SailGP team in San Fran
We were lucky enough to be in San Francisco at the same time as the Sail GP Mubadala Season 3 Grand Final. Before the racing began, we booked in for a Team Base Tour led by American Olympic match racing sailor Genevieve Tulloch, where we got to see each team’s boat and hanger base. It […]
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 […]
Tackers Update – January
TACKERS With all Tackers courses at full capacity, it is a delight to see out all our Optis out on the pond having fun and learning some new skills. We are currently running our third consecutive stream of Tackers 1, 2 & 3 with one final stream commencing on January 16th-20th. For all those budding […]
Sail Training Update – January
Tackers Training Tackers is in full swing with our recent Tackers 1 class at full capacity. There is limited opportunity available for further bookings in this summers courses however there are the odd spot available and some cancellations means people on our waiting list are getting called up. There is still some spaces available for […]
