Sailing Academy School Holiday Updates!

School holiday activities in full swing – Our Tackers, Sail and Play and Start sailing participants have had great fun on the water in the varying winds this week. Be sure to book now to join in next week’s activities.   Queensland Youth Training camp The following sailors have just spent the last 3 days
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Implementing Credit Card Surcharge Fees

It has become financially unsustainable for the Squadron to continue absorbing the credit card commission fees associated with a high volume of credit card transactions at the Squadron. It is thus necessary that, starting 01 November 2018 the Squadron will implement credit card surcharges on Direct Debit and over the counter transactions. For Mastercard and
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Marine Sports Amenity Building Now Operating

The brand new Marine Sports Amenity building is now operational, with our Sailing, Sailing Academy and Marina Staff now working out of the new building located at the end of Lawn 2 just before the slipway. A reminder that: The Marina Office is open from 09:00 – 16:00, Monday to Friday.  The Sailing Office is open
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Off The Beach PreSeason Series

Three races were run on Saturday with three participating divisions – Junior Monohulls (Optimists), Medium Monohulls (Laser 4.7s, Laser Radials, Laser Standards, Flying 11s, a Devoti D-Zero, Contenders and Finns), and Multihulls (Nacra 17 foilers and non-foilers and an F18). Thank you to the volunteers who ran another day of quality racing for the Squadron.
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Etchells numbers bursting for the ‘Spring Regatta’

Six months ago we fielded queries from south of the border as to what was happening at RQYS prior to the World Championship program. We decided to run a low key regatta but because Opening Day is late this year (15th Sept.) there wasn’t much wriggle room after opening day so we decided to run
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134th Sailing Season (2018/2019) – Enter Now!

Entries are now open for all classes for the upcoming Sailing Season. There will be a celebratory invitational race on Opening Day (15 September 2018) although this will not contribute to any pointscores for the Seasons Points (every race, as per the Sailing Program ) or Squadron Championships (generally once per month, dates specified in the Sailing Program ).
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