I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and start to 2023. I would like to invite you all to join our Commodore for a cocktail evening to celebrate the New Year at Gins Come along and meet the Flag Officers to catch up on news and plans while the team at Gins serve complimentary cocktails and nibbles for you to enjoy. The event starts at 7pm on 28th January 2023 Best wishes Stuart & Team RSVP to clubhousemanager@rsyc.org.uk
Series starts 8th January. Two races each alternate Sunday. January 8th, 22nd, February 5th, 19th, March 5th, 19th. Use your 2022 IRC rating if you don't get your 2023 Certificate in time. White sails option, fully-crewed or double-handed.
Colin Van Geffen is an established and well-known artist and public speaker who lives and works in the New Forest. He is a local historian and aviation enthusiast. He researches and writes all of his presentations and presentation of the facts is his priority. Colin’s talk The Flying Boats of Southampton (Ships of the Sky) recalls the Golden Years of the commercial flying boat era, when Southampton and its Empire flying boats led the world. From the beginnings in 1913 to the swan song in the 50’s and later. The talk begins at 7pm followed by supper - Cost £15 Please book with clubhousemanager@rsyc.org.uk
Plenty of car parking available or boats are booked on the Dan Bran pontoon. Dinner in the Royal Lymington Yacht Club Please book with membership@rsyc.org.uk
Series starts 8th January. Two races each alternate Sunday. January 8th, 22nd, February 5th, 19th, March 5th, 19th. Use your 2022 IRC rating if you don't get your 2023 Certificate in time. White sails option, fully-crewed or double-handed.
We can always put you with a team if you don't have a four.
Series starts 8th January. Two races each alternate Sunday. January 8th, 22nd, February 5th, 19th, March 5th, 19th. Use your 2022 IRC rating if you don't get your 2023 Certificate in time. White sails option, fully-crewed or double-handed.
Featuring Mike Golding. Mike is an Honorary Life Member of the RSYC. He is the first yachtsman to sail solo non-stop round the world in both directions and complete five circumnavigations The Rescue of Alex Thomson on the Velux 5 Oceans Race 2006/7 Alex Thomson ( Hugo Boss) and Mike Golding (Ecover) were two of the three entries – the other being one rather notable Sir Robin Knox Johnson ( Saga) in the V5O solo race around the world from Bilbao to Bilbao with just two stops in Fremantle and Norfolk USA. After a tough start in storm force conditions one by one each of the Brits were forced to stop and after restarting in Spain. Thompson and Golding went in hot pursuit of Bernard Stamm who had gained a healthy early race lead. Despite both having vastly differing strategies both plunged deep into the Southern Ocean racing each other for the lead separated by just a few miles driven forward by a vast Southern Ocean storm. Disaster struck and Hugo Boss was left floundering taking on vast amounts of water as well as the rapidly approaching storm front. With no ships able to reach Alex, Mike who was 90 […]