Mark Hansen was elected as Commodore during the 152nd AGM.

The 153rd Opening Day Regatta of RPYC took place.

Mathew Wearn won the Australian National Laser Championship.

Sylvia Foulkes was inducted as the first Associate Member to attain 50-year status.

Sylvia Foulkes celebrated her 50th Anniversary as the longest serving Associate Member, presented on International Women’s Day.

Alan Tough was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM).

The 151st Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held.

The RPYC 152nd Opening Day Regatta was held.

The 50th Anniversary of the birth of the Pelican Trainer was celebrated.

Andrew Hosen won the Sesquicentenary Cup Regatta sailing "Siroco".

The 150th Anniversary Albany Race and the Anzac Commemorative Ocean Race took place.

Jon Readhead was awarded Honorary Life Membership to RPYC at the 2015 AGM.

The 150th Sesquicentenial Annual General Meeting of RPYC took place.

The 151st Opening Day Regatta was held at RPYC.

Grantham Kitto secured 1st place in the Etchell State Championships.

Graeme Martin won 1st place in the Hansa Australian National Championships.

The AGM was held on July 31, 2014.

The book “Sailing on the Swan” was launched, chronicling RPYC history.

Mathew Wearn secured 1st place in the Australian Laser Open Championships.

Graeme Martin won 1st place in the Hansa Liberty State Championships.

Kylie Forth was inducted into the 2014 West Australian Women’s Hall of Fame.

The 149th Opening Day Regatta took place at Royal Perth Yacht Club.

The 60th Anniversary of the Opening of the RPYC Club House Crawley was celebrated.

The 148th Opening Day Regatta took place at Royal Perth Yacht Club.

 

Commodore John Flower OAM and Barry Court AM received Australia Day Awards.

The 147th Opening Day Regatta of RPYC took place.

“Thera” R11 turned 100 years old.

Perth 2011 ISAF World Sailing Championships commenced.

Awards presented to Club Members Torvar Mirsky, Annette Morris, Nia Jerwood, Diego Figueroa, Douglas Campbell, and Genevieve Wickham.

The 145th Annual General Meeting of RPYC was held.

Jamie Dunross and Steven Thomas awarded Corinthian Membership at the 145th AGM.

The 146th Opening Day Regatta of RPYC took place.

Graham Owens OAM and Jack Bendat AM received Queens Birthday Honours.

The 144th Annual General Meeting of RPYC was held.

The 145th Opening Day Regatta of RPYC took place.

Club Members achieved Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics.

The 143rd Annual General Meeting of RPYC was held.

The 142nd Annual General Meeting of RPYC was held.

The 143rd Opening Day Regatta of RPYC took place.

The IFDS World Championships took place.

Club members won Para Olympic Gold in Sydney.

Jon Sanders completed a triple circumnavigation of the world.

In the 1987-88 sailing season, the title of Captain Juniors was relinquished and John Bayliss was elected Captain Dinghies. Bill Robertson held the office in the previous season as Captain Juniors.

HE Miss Agatha Barbara, President of the Republic of Malta, visited RPYC.

The RPYC Annex Marina at Fremantle was officially opened.

 

 

 

RPYC’S First rescue boat

Past Commodore Bennett opened our first Junior Club House

In the inaugural Albany race in 1968, John Fitzhardinge set a race record that stood for 25 years, defying bigger yachts and technology until 1993.

The inaugural Albany Ocean Race was held in the 1967-68 sailing season. The first winner was JB Fitzhardinge in “Theanna”

The first Achille Lauro Ocean Race was sailed in the 1967-68 sailing season. The first winner was J Muhling in “Hydroconic”

The Inaugural Carnival of the Swan was held in the year of the Commonwealth Games

The first Iberia Race was sailed on 5th March 1960. The results were 1st and fastest Bill Lucas in “Panna muna” followed by Sandra with “Eun-na-mara third”.

Visitors to RPYC. Lord Teynham was Commodore of The House of Lords Yacht Club

Roly Tasker won silver at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 sailing “Falcon 1V” – SEE HALL OF FAME

Visitors to the Club

Visitors to the Club

General Committee deemed that because of the Commodores work load, future appointment to the rank of Commodore would be for a period of 2 years only.

The first Naturaliste Race was started by His Excelency Sir Charles Gairdner at 11 am, 11 March 1955. The first winner was Len Randall sailing “Rugged”

Inaugural mention of the design of a new Club trainer, the Pelican, was mentioned in General Committee Minutes in November 1955

The Paying off Pennant, with 88 red and white stripes, one for each year of the Club’s existence was streamed from the mast head of the Old Club on 10th December 1953.

The 1953 Sailing Season was open at the new Crawley Premises by The Governor H.E. Lt Gen, Sir Charles Gairdner K.C.M.G K.C.V.O K.B.E C.B The total membership at that time was 472 members.

The great ocean racing era at Royal Perth began when three Western Australian sailing identities. Bill Lucas, John Fitzhardinge and Stuart Ward, sailed Corsair, the largest cruising yacht in the State at the time, to Sydney for the famous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Australia Day Regatta and Aquatic Carnival held in Crawley Bay 26 January 1948

Several years before the war, the possibility of moving to Crawley had been actively canvassed. In 1939 the proposed site became an American Naval Seaplane Base for the duration of the war. After the war, the Club actively pressured all Government and local authorities to gain a lease on the…

Visitors to the Club

Miss Amy Johnson (1903-1941) Aviatrix visits Royal Perth Yacht Club at William Street in June 1930 and is welcomed by Commodore Winterbottom

As early as 1910, Club House extensions were planned. Due to the Great War plans were put on hold and in 1923, plans were re submitted but it was not untill 1930 when full architectural plans were submitted and passed and the extensions built. This process took nearly 20 years.

It was proposed that the Club should shift to an area between the Spring and the brewery in Mounts Bay Road. The area was officially approved for the Club but rejected by a majority of members as being “too far out of town”. In 1926 “The Coombe” in Mosmans Bay…Read More

Visitor to RPYC

The Club was hit with its first taxation assessment, Six Pounds Sixteen.

The first mention of Junior Members in Minutes read – “Gentlemen over the age of 16 and under 21, not being the owner of a boat, may be accepted as a Junior Member”. There was no nomination fee and the annual subscription was One Guinea. Three years later there was…Read More

Andy Roche, later to become an Hon Life Member of RPYC, sailed “Elma” to win the 14 foot dinghy National Championship on Sydney Harbour

“Vista” sailed by AW Green won this inaugural race on 19th May 1906

The Esplanade was reclaimed to within 60 yards of the Club

The earliest reference to the racing of the Governor’s Cup is in 1904, the winner that year being Carter and Ariotts sailing “Waitangi” . Further research is being conducted in ths area.

Members of the Royal Comic Opera Company

The first mention of a bar was in the Committee Minutes dated 6th January 1897. Bar Chits were introduced soon after but reluctantly withdrawn after two months.

The members unanimously decided to dispense with the old blue “PYC” Burgee and adopt a new one. The design chosen was a white burgee bearing a Red St Georges Cross an emblazoned with a St Edwards Crown in the upper canton.

 

On the recommendation of Governor Sir Frederic Napier Broome the Club received the title and prefix of Royal from Queen Victoria and at the same time it was announced that the Lords of the Admiralty had granted the Club the Royal Warrant to fly an un-defaced Blue ensign

Perth Yacht Club received the Royal Charter in 1890

Exciting news was given to members at the Annual General Meeting held in 1890 – that Her Majesty, Queen Victoria had been pleased to confer upon the Club the title and prefix “Royal” … Your committee think it right to remind members that these distinctions have been conferred …

James Dyer

In the 1889 – 90 season was the first mention of smoke social and later advertised as Grand Smoke Concert

In 1889, Talbot Hobbs submitted plans for a new Club House. The plans were drawn and the tender of two hundred and thirteen pounds was accepted. In the same year, Governor, Sir Napier Broome declared the Clubhouse open at a banquet to celebrate the occasion.

This meeting took place at the Fremason’s Hotel with all the original members present an others. Mr JG Lee Steere was elected President with George Shenton Vice President. Governor Weld accepted the office of Patron. This meeting was the progenitor of the Royal Perth Yacht Club.

A committee called the “Officers of the Regatta” was formed to frame sailing rules. Its first meeting was at the Freemason’s Hotel

A meeting was convened with WH Knight (the first elected President) in the chair with de Lisle,Glyde,Lawrence, Scholl, Mitchell, Stone and Wynne also present. An annual membership fee of one pound fifteen shillings was struck and the name of Perth Yacht Club was officially chosen.

History records further notable events in 1851 and 1859, and in 1865 this original group of pioneer sailors formalised the Perth Yacht Club.

Celebration Regatta for the 32nd Anniversary of the Foundation of the Colony. Entries in the early Club Minute Books of the 1860’s, refer to a band of Swan River sailing enthusiast who revived the regattas each year to ensure continuity. Governor Arthur Kennedy was one of the instigators of the…

On the 29/11/1850, the “Perth Gazette” published an item to spark public interest. Boat Race: a match race between two gigs, “Native Chief” and “Lady of the Lake”. “Native Chief” won the race in 35 minutes with the crew of J Watson, H Burgess and J Dyer steering. This was…

 

An advertisement signed by WB Andrews, G Nash and GJ Webb, designated Stewards, was placed in the “Inquirer” for a Regatta on 01/06/1841.