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Waikawa Women’s Regatta Write Ups
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- For the 2024 Waikawa Women’s Regatta RPNYC was represented by Zig Zag Fullstop, Annie and Phantasea. Here’s reports from ZigZag and Phantasea. Photo credit: Waikawa Boating Club. ZigZag Fullstop crew [...]
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Give Sailing a Go Day – Sunday 3 November
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Have you always wanted to give sailing a go, but never had the chance to get out on the water? Well now you have an opportunity to join Royal Port [...]
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Atalanta Fundaiser Friday September 27
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- RPNYC and Wellington Classic Yacht Trust are running a fundraiser for Atalanta (launched in 1894). Included in the ticket is a walking heritage tour of Clyde Quay, a peek in [...]
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Wellington Youth Sailing Trust seeks support
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- With the 2024/25 sailing season fast approaching, the Wellington Youth Sailing Trust is seeking support for their youth match racing programme. The Trust’s under-23 match racing programme has provided an [...]
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Safety Day Saturday September 21
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Want to feel more confident and competent on the water? This day is for both crew and skippers to learn more about safety equipment and what to do with it. [...]
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Kiwi Cup Raffle
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Are you keen on a chance to go in the draw for a trip to the America’s Cup in Barcelona AND raise some money for our club? Purchase a ticket [...]
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Winter Solstice BBQ and 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart insights
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Join us Friday 21 June for a winter solstice BBQ followed by some Rolex Sydney Hobart 2023 insights from club members Tracey, Mike and Tim. Tracey and Mike competed in [...]
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Volunteer of the Year – Jim Gordon
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- He’s sailed a lot of offshore miles and more inshore races than you can count – been part of successful crews, in particular sailing with John Meade on his Young [...]
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Boat of the Year – 88% Proof
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- This boat had been part of the RPNYC fleet for a while before enjoying its current ownership from around 2015. Since then it’s been the epitome of a great club boat. [...]
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Notice of Annual General Meeting
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- The Board hereby gives notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club will be held at the Wardroom, 103 Oriental Parade, at 7.00pm on Tuesday [...]
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2023-24 Ambassadors Race – what a way to finish the season
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Wellington turned on a beautiful autumnal day with a light breeze and sunshine for the closing day of our 2023-24 season, which is now when we host our annual Ambassadors [...]
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Nelson Regatta 2024 – write up from 3 boats
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Gucci: Offshore Wellington to Nelson and then add the Evolution Nelson Regatta in too Calling all skippers and crew – firstly we need more offshore boats on the start line. [...]
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RPNYC and the Sydney to Hobart race
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- The chances are that if you ask anyone in the world to name a famous yacht race, it will be the Sydney to Hobart. Alongside the Fastnet race, it carries [...]
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We’ve started our Clean Club journey
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- The what and the why We all use the harbour and the ocean as our play- and sportsground, a place to soothe our souls and relax, sometimes even as a [...]
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Our trophies
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Want to know what trophies are up for grabs for the different races or series? We’ve made our current trophy list available here for you to view. In time we’d [...]
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Updated radio information
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Radio Information We have a couple of errors in our Almanac regarding Radio Information (Page 49) and Cook Strait Information (Page 52). These changes are as follows: Page 49: Any [...]
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Turkish Social Rally
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Message from the Turkish Ambassador and Spouse Sunday, October 29, 2023 was the 100th Anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic Of Türkiye. We would like to thank the Royal [...]
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Waikawa Womens Regatta 2023
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- As written by Carolyn Stephens. The fourth Waikawa Women’s Regatta was my first. Everyone I’d talked to had so many positive things to say, Paul and I just had to [...]
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Racing Atalanta in the 1950s
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- By R.M. (Bob) Jollands My name is Bob Jollands and in 1958 I was working with a friend of Jack Cox, the owner of Atalanta, who, after finding that I [...]
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2023-24 season- get into it!
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- The days are getting longer, warmer (and a bit windier) signalling spring is on it’s way. That means its time to get your entries in for our 2023-24 season. The [...]
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Three Clubs Two Divisions One Trophy – 2023 Interclub series
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- 3 Clubs, 3 Races, 2 Divisions, 1 Trophy – the Interclub series is back for 2023. To bring ‘inter-club’ back to the Interclub Series, we will be awarding the Europa [...]
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Nigel Crisp – my neighbour
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- I first met Nigel about 20 years ago when I moved into a shed adjacent to his. Number 24 I think. He owned the beautiful 16-foot Spitsgatter, Saga, moored on [...]
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Brent Dewhurst – Life Member
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- As with anyone nominated for a lifetime membership, you could write books about the huge number of stories and contributions to the club. Brent didn’t step foot on a boat [...]
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Draft 2023-24 Sailing programme
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- A draft sailing programme for the upcoming 2023-24 season is now available here. This is a provisional outline of what we hope will make up our 141st season! Please note [...]
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Pork Chop: Delivered Tauranga to Wellington (and proves a tasty treat)
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Pork Chop was purchased in February with expectations that we would sail her to Wellington within a couple of weeks. Cyclone Gabrielle put paid to that, with reports of rafts [...]
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Time for a coffee WOSC style
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- We had two different days out on the water for Wellington Ocean Sports (WOSC) last weekend. It’s a busy time at the moment, which is great to see. Instructors James [...]
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Notice of 2023 AGM
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- This years’ Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Tuesday 20th of June at 7pm in the RPNYC wardroom. Please add this date to your calendar. Attached is the [...]
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Richard Martin’s recollections of his 2007 Trans Tasman Single Handed race
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- For many years we had raced Flying Machine in the Port Nich Y88 fleet, and then moved to a bigger boat when we bought Xanadu II, a round bilge Spencer [...]
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Port Underwood race 2023
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Written by Gabby Storey Considered one of the most dangerous and unpredictable waters in the world (at least according to Google), I was pretty nervous to embark on my first [...]
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The Yachtbreaker line**
- Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (Inc)
- Some readers may recall the incident at Pt Jerningham about 15 years ago when Esprit, a Beale 33 which admittedly tended to sail bow down, decided to bury her nose [...]
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