Royal Geelong Yacht Club

🛟 EQUIPMENT AUDIT BOOKINGS ARE OPEN

Part of getting ready for the 2026–27 sailing season is ensuring your boat’s safety equipment audit is completed in accordance with Australian Sailing requirements.

This year, RGYC is returning to the Australian Sailing paper Equipment Audit Forms. Download and complete the relevant form, then book your audit for one of the next three weekends:

📅 Saturday 5 or Sunday 6 September
📅 Saturday 12 or Sunday 13 September
📅 Saturday 19 or Sunday 20 September

All boats must complete the appropriate audit before their first race of the season.

Information and forms:
https://rgyc.com.au/sailing/keelboat/safety-registration/

Book your audit:
https://www.revolutionise.com.au/rgyc/events/list?category_id%5B%5D=11773

⛵ Sailing season is just around the corner!

Our Keelboat & Etchells Pre-Season Briefing is this Wednesday, 2 September at 6pm.

An online option will also be available.

As always, this is required viewing for everyone planning to race this season.

Check out the 2026-2027 Calendar at

Sailing Calendar - Royal Geelong Yacht Club The SAILING CALENDAR is now entirely online. Use the filter in the top left corner to see only your relevant sailing events. Use the red “sync to calendar” button to...

More Hamilton Island Race Week FOMO during a cold and wet August morning in Geelong. RGYC's Cam Rae and his Crusader team have already been collecting some silverwear!

Wishing all the RGYC members and yachts happy sailing for the second half of the week.
📸 Salty Dingo

Things look sporty and absolutely beautiful for the RGYC members and yachts at this years Hamilton Island Race Week.

Phoenix49 and Jac Hoi looking spectacular through the lens of Salty Dingo.

Those of us playing along at home can find the results here https://tes.topyacht.net.au/results/2026/hirw/index.htm

Love sailing? Here is your chance to pass it on. ⛵️

Australian Sailing is running both the dinghy and keelboat Instructor Courses at RGYC on 5 & 6 September 2026.

Led by an Australian Sailing Senior Instructor, the weekend is a great opportunity for experienced sailors to take the next step, become qualified and help more people discover the sport we love.

Whether you'd like to get involved with learn-to-sail, develop your instructing skills, or simply give something back to sailing, this is a rgeat place to start.

Places are available through Australian Sailing our reach out to the RGYC Sailing Office and we can assist. https://www.sailing.org.au/courses?category=3/

What a week. What a team. What a result! 🇦🇺👏⛵

We couldn’t be more proud of our Royal Geelong Yacht Club cadets after an incredible week at the 2026 Cadet World Championship on Lake Garda, Italy.

🥈 2nd – Will Garner and Jack O’Brien
🥉 3rd – Jack Benyan and Farrell Meegan
🏆 1st Promotional Fleet – Matilda Groves and Poppy Loftus (RYCV)

That’s two RGYC boats on the World Championship podium, plus a Promotional Fleet win. What an incredible result for our Cadet program!

A huge congratulations also goes to Rohan Turaga and Calin Went (ASC), Walter Howard and William Smith, who also represented RGYC with pride throughout the Championship.

And a massive congratulations to all of Team Australia on a fantastic campaign, along with coach Tony Bull, the support team and all the families behind the scenes who helped make it possible.

Congratulations, Cadets! We couldn’t be prouder.

Congratulations to our Cadet teams who are currently smashing goals over in Italy.

After Day 3 of racing William Garner and Jack O'Brien are placed 1st in the Cadet World Championship, with Jack Benyan and Farrell Meegan also in the Top 10, and Matilda Groves and Poppy Loftus ranking 4th in the Promotional Fleet.

Fair winds for the next few days to all our RGYC sailors!

International Cadet Class AUS