Please join us at Club Night on June 4th for a Sailing Quiz.
Due to unforeseen technical issues at the AGM, we were unable to bring you the popular sailing quiz. Please join us where teams of 4 will test their nautical knowledge for some great saling inspired prizes. There is no need to find a team beforehand.
This event has unfortunately sold out, but register your interest here in case someone drops out or we can run an additional boat.
Something different this year for our week away - Scotland to sail around the beautiful areas surrounding Bute and the Isle of Aaran.
This trip needs to be booked by the end of January 2013 in order to secure the best price for the boats.
You will need to book your own flight to Glasgow and we recommend you do this early to get the best prices.
We will organise transport from the airport to the marina.
To register for any event, you will need to be a Member or Temporary Member. To register for Temporary Membership click here.
The final price for this trip will be £375.
A weekend of sail twitching!! Want to learn a bit more about flying a kite?
Come out on a J109 (comfy race boat) to learn how to set sails and fly a kite.
Jellyfish Charters have three J109's and have come up with a great club price to give us a chance to have a cruising weekend on a race boat and to have a play. And of course two boats may well indeed mean we have a little competition!
The cost of the full trip will be £185. In order to secure the boats for this trip you will need to book by the end of March 2013.
A deposit of £50 is required to secure your space on this trip.
The cost of the full trip will be £200. In order to secure the boats for this trip you will need to book by the end of March 2013.
Come sailing in the Solent this Summer
Hopefully we haven't seen the last of the sunshine in the Solent - so come along for a trip out in July for a relaxed sail around our local haunts.
The cost of the full trip will be about £225.
A deposit of £75 is required to secure your space on this trip.
Want improve your navigation and boat skills? Or fancy doing the JM Cup and want to get in some practice?
This weekend is set up to give you the chance to have a go at all those skills you've been learning and maybe learn some more.
Its a training weekend so you can learn tips and get assistance from our club skippers who will be on board.
The cost of the full trip will be £200. Boats will be chartered from Fairview so we will also have cruising chutes to play with.
Would you like to increase your skills to driving a Rib?
RBYC is now able to offer the RYA Level 2 Powerboat qualification through Sailing Logic. Priced at £299 per person, the price includes:
Price includes:
· No fuel surcharges, marina fees or hidden costs when on our boats
· Our 6.0m RIB to complete powerboat training, including running costs
· Training by one of our specialist RYA Powerboat level 2 instructors
· RYA Start Powerboating Book (G48) - worth £8.99
· RYA recommended safety equipment to be carried during training
· Loan of Foul weather clothing, if required
· Powerboat level 2 course certificate on completion of training
· Qualify for an ICC for boats up to 10m long
· Refreshments during powerboat training, but we do not provide lunch
Please note that accomodation in Hamble is not provided as part of the course, but we can recommend some good value B&B's.
When registrations for this course are complete, you will be contacted with details of how to make payment directly to Sailing Logic.
A weekend to pit your wits against your fellow club members and win the much coveted RBYC racing cup.
We are working with Sailing Logic to provide you with a very experienced and expert trainers/skipper for the weekend.
We will be on one of their Reflex 38s.
Sailing Logic are well respected in the industry and won 'Best School boat', amoungst many others, in the RORC championships this year for their performance in racing. And their crews are all like us - some novice & some more experienced.
A deposit of £100 is required to secure your space on this trip and the full cost is expected to be £220. We will need to confirm spaces by the end of March for this trip.
Please note the boat is a stripped out racing boat so don't expect luxury below or a cabin! However the positive is that the boats sail beautifully and will demonstrate well the spinnaker & sail trim.
A talk by Richard Hews, Trustee and National Public Relations Officer for The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI).
The NCI is an entirely voluntary organisation keeping a visual watch along UK shores. Although technology has improved safety a computer cannot spot a distress flare, a yachtsman or fisherman in trouble (yet alone more vulnerable divers, windsurfers, etc). Set up in 1944 there are currently 49 NCI stations manned by over 2000 volunteers.
Richard joined the National Coastwatch as a trainee Watchkeeper at Polruan in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed National Public Relations Officer for NCI and was co-opted as a Trustee. The NCI is often wrongly confused with the work of the MCA coastguard and their introductory video is a good way to learn more about the work of the NCI. Click here for the NCI Website
A day to try out how to 'sail' a motor boat and better understand the dark side.
The trip is expected to cost around £150 for the day which will include your fuel. A deposit of £50 is required to secure your place on this trip.
Each year the RBYC holds its flag ship event - "The John Mountain Challenge Cup". It was established to test core seamanship skills for skippers, mates and their crews. It's competitive, fun, exhausting usually wet, frustrating, argumentative, and probably the best event of the year!
And yes there are two cups to be won - Best Boat & Best Skipper.
Are you up for the challenge?
The cost of the full trip will be around £240 depending on final numbers and a T Shirt will be provided to mark the event. The boats will be chartered from Fairview.
A deposit of £75 is required to secure your place on this trip.
This event is only open for members and it would be great if you could get away from the office a little earlier than the published time of 7pm for this trip although not essential.
Charity Regatta sponsored by The Tall Ships Youth Trust
This weekend is run by the Tall Ships Youth trust & is a charity event to raise money. It is run by Sunsail in Port Solent and would involve two yacht races on Saturday & two races on Sunday.
Hard work, cold, tiring with probably lots of shouting but great fun.
There is a charity gala dinner in Cowes on the Saturday evening.
The cost of the event is expected to be £190 which includes a ticket for the gala dinner in Cowes on Saturday evening. A deposit of £50 is required to secure your place.
If you have any questions please call me on 07773 460408
A weekend to have some fun out on the water after the stress of the John Mountain Cup weekend. The boats will be chartered from Fairview Sailing so cruising chutes will be supplied for this trip and flown if the weather allows.
A little added "spice" to the trip is cooking competition! A prize may even be up for grabs. The cost of the trip is expected to be around £130. A deposit of £50 is required to secure your place on this trip.
This is a one day course aimed at sailors who want to go beyond a basic level of understanding of the weather around us. If you have been sailing for a while and take a regular interest in weather forecasts and weather charts, this course is for you.
The course will be delivered by Simon Rowell who is an Ocean Yachtmaster, Instructor and Examiner, and has spent a lot of time getting rained on (some of it warm, some of it cold). He obtained a distinction in the MSc course in applied meterology at the University of Reading, and is currently doing a part time PhD there.
The course will cover the following:
The last weekend of the year to get out sailing with the RBYC.
It's better than Christmas shopping and definately far less crowded.
The boats will be chartered from Hamble Point and we hope to have cruising chutes!
The trip is expected to cost around £160. A deposit of £50 is required to secure your place on this trip.
RYA First Aid Course
Duration 1 Day
Instructors: Peter and Carol-Anne Pocock Starlight Coaching.
The club has used the Pocock's for a number of years and they have a very broad experience of sailing and first aid and give a really good days training.
They have always been praised by attendees of previous courses as particularly knowledgeable trainers.
Member Cost: £65
Non Member Cost: £75 (This includes 6 months temporary membership)
This RYA course is designed to teach attendees all aspects of first aid on a yacht. Whilst hopefully most of us are unlikely to finish up in a liferaft at sea most of us are likely to have to administer some kind of first aid when sailing. The course is broad ranging but particularly useful in covering the life threatening events that can occur on a boat like how to deal with an unconscious casualty, heart attacks,hypothermia etc.
If you sail regularly you should have your first aid up to date. (RYA First Aid only lasts 3 years)
If you are a Day skipper or Coastal skipper you must have your first aid up to date.
You will need to bring your lunch, notepad and pen.
