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Club racing - not for the feint hearted

With strong winds forecast and most sailors late to arrive (seemingly only turning up when the lunch break at the cricket commenced) we set an unusual sausage course. While this led to lots of complaints from the tower (lovely to see you back Jonka), it suited Tom Clarke, who won the 1st race on handicap, & Richard Jagger who won both races on VYC handicap. There was also fear in a lot of sailor's eyes, but that was mostly due to the prospect of being rescued by Martin Corden and Simon Webster. · Read more

Lets ignore the invaders

Race 5 saw our three visitors take out #1, #2 & #3. (and they can see the results in the link below) But if we ignore them it was Doug Varey, followed by Anthony Brand and Derek Hollander (great to see you back on the water, and able to leave Jonka to disrupt race control).Race 6 saw a Laser Radial trifecta (again if we ignore our visitor who beat us all), with Leigh Glover, followed by Simon Corden, and BEHIND SIMON was Martin Corden. · Read more

Kobe rulz - two 4 two

In fluky winds only the most talented (and/or lucky) prevail. And so it was on Saturday when our fleet of 12 battled it out. While most of the fleet had very different individual results between the two races, Kobe was the winner in both! Great effort. · Read more

The Summer Series commences

Nine boats, and 13 hardy sailors started in the first two heats of the Opening Series. Initially in flukey and then strong winds Leigh Glover managed to win both races, while Martin showed consistency in coming sixth and then fifth. Simon Webster came first among the Melges in both races, helped by both Stewart Carter and Richard Jagger being on the rescue boat. Koby Langford and Liam Clarke battled it out in their Pacers - doing a great job in challenging conditions. · Read more

The Admiral wins

Simon Webster, the MYC Sailing Admiral, achieved victory in Heat 8 under difficult conditions. Admiral Nimitz once said 'An Admiral who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough." but today our Sailing Admiral (okay Captain) proved that trying to hard finally leads to success. After Simon in Heat 8 was Karen Buckingham, and Pete Balka in the Sabres. Heat 7 saw Richard Jagger, Simon (again) and Matt Darby on the podium. Well done team! · Read more

Welcome to Merricks Yacht Club

Come and enjoy sailing and socialising at our friendly club on the beautiful sandy shore of Westernport Bay. The social and sailing program can be found at https://www.revolutionise.com.au/merricks/sailing/myc-program

The club has a long proud history and joyful spirit that comes from its active committed membership with the oportunity for members, who are looking to participate in race duty, can volunteer by accessing the online Duty Roster.

There are often after-race social events and our ever growing weekly Thursday evening gathering hosted by Sue Rutley, which starting at 5:30 PM for the now very popular happy hour.

New members are welcome and information on joining the club can be viewed on the Membership Page.

Merricks Yach Club sail a wide range of off-the-beach and trailerable yacht classes which includes Multilhulls, A Class, Weta and Mosquito, with the ever growing monohulls clases that include Lasers, 420, Sabre, Pacer, Melges 14, RS-Aero, Moth, Waszp and Optimist. The trailerable yachts include the Castle 650 and Explorer 16 classes who are always looking for extra crew.

Friend and family members are welcome to come join us for a days sailing by simply joining with a simply click on the following link : SailPass

For assistance with the FindMyShift rostering system, please email Stewart Carter at rearcommodore@merricks.org.

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