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Top Yachting Clubs In Victoria

There are many yachting clubs in Victoria, yet topping the chart is the Royal Victoria Yacht Club (RVYC) and the Royal Yacht Club Victoria (RYCV).

The Royal Victoria Yacht Club

RVYC was founded in 1892 and is the oldest amongst the yacht clubs in the entirety of Western Canada. Their main clubhouse is situated on Cadboro Bay, while Sidney is where their Tsehum Harbour yachting marina is situated.

RYVC promotes seamanship, navigation, boating, and yachting, and they offer themed events, dining moorage, cruising, stand up paddle boards, and kayak rentals without any charge – and a lot more. They promote kayaking highly, thus promoting it to kids from age two. They own not just a clubhouse facility, but they offer a lot to their members to ensure that they can meet every need.

To know more about the club’s benefits, requirements, frequently asked questions, application information and the like, you can always visit their website at https://www.rvyc.bc.ca .

The Royal Yacht Club Victoria

RYCV started not by their current name but the Port Phillip Yacht Club. The club was founded May 1853 making it the oldest and most active of yacht clubs in Australia. The main headquarters is located in Williamstown, just about 13 kilometres away from the coastal capital of the southern Australia state, Melbourne.

The club has more than 800 members, and they also have 200-plus yachts registered, making them an ideal club for sailors with any level of experience and expertise. Sailors can enjoy steady and reliable breezes with little to no current. This is definitely a perfect stretch of water for club boating, or national, international, and state regattas.

They are also connected by sea, rail, and road, and their clubhouse facilities have a bar, huge dining room, lawn area, and outdoor decking. Their dining room is available and open for dinner from Mondays to Sundays and they offer breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays. The atmosphere of the club makes it a perfect place for weddings and other functions.

Needless to say, with the many clubs around the state of Victoria, you have the luxury to take your time and see each of their goals, missions, benefits, what they can provide, activities they do and more. This will help you in choosing which amongst the clubs is best suitable for you yachting goals and aspirations.

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Royal Yacht Club Victoria (RYCV) was initially founded as the Port Phillip Yacht Club in May 1853 and remains to be one of the oldest yacht clubs in Australia. The Club is situated in Williamstown with a stunning view of the city skyline and is steeped in decades of yachting history and tradition. Today RYCV boasts more than 900 members and over 300 yachts on the register making it an ideal Club for sailors with all levels of experience. Sailors can enjoy reliable and steady breezes with little or no current, making it a perfect stretch of water for club sailing or state, national and international regattas. Royals Training Centre offers courses for all ages and we have a strong and lively social program which is enjoyed by our Members.

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Yacht Clubs in Victoria

Clubs Listed : 62

Albert Park Yacht Club —- Visited: 174 Times

South Melbourne

Listing id: 10965

Our History Albert Park Yacht Club is the oldest continuing inland yacht club in Victoria. We’ve been around since 1871. Albert Park Yacht Club offers a safe and convenient place to sail year round in the heart of the city. Website

Albury Wodonga Yacht Club —- Visited: 96 Times

Listing id: 10966

Located on the border between NSW and Victoria, the club offers great facilities for hosting Regattas from State to National Championships. Coaching and sail training is run throughout the season and is open for all age groups and levels of experience. Website

Angelsea Motor Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 10995

Angelsea Motor Yacht Club is located at Point Roadknight Boatramp, Melba Parade, Angelsea VIC – PH# 0419 296464.

Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 83 Times

Listing id: 11007

Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron may be reached thru PO Box 45, Black Rock, VIC 3193 – Ph# 03 9589 5156 or email [email protected]. Website

Beaumaris Yacht Club —- Visited: 132 Times

Listing id: 10968

Beaumaris Yacht Club (BYC) was established on the Ricketts Point foreshore in 1950. The club was started by a group of local sailors who were keen to begin their organised sailing in the local area. Website

Bendigo Yacht Club —- Visited: 80 Times

Lake Eppalock

Listing id: 10892

Bendigo Yacht Club is located at 45 Sunset Drive, Lake Eppalock VIC 3551 – Ph# 03 5439 2552 or email at [email protected]. Website

Black Rock Yacht Club —- Visited: 125 Times

Listing id: 10969

Black Rock Yacht Club is located at Half Moon Bay, Black Rock, VIC 3193 – Ph# 03 9598 0570 or email at [email protected]. Website

Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 0 Times

Blairgowrie

Listing id: 10894

Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron is located at 2900 Point Nepean Road, Blairgowrie, VIC 3942 – PH# 03 5988 8453.

Chelsea Yacht Club —- Visited: 97 Times

Listing id: 10971

Chelsea Yacht Club may be reached thru PO Box 4, Chealsea, VIC 3106 – Ph# 03 9772 2854 or email at [email protected]. Website

Colac Yacht Club —- Visited: 53 Times

Listing id: 10902

Colac Yacht Club may be reached thru PO Box 308, Colac, VIC 3250 – Ph# 03 52311180 or email at [email protected]. Website

Cowes Yacht Club —- Visited: 79 Times

Listing id: 10973

The club was established in the late 50’s by a group of local residents interested in developing water sports of all types. The members are both local people and holiday residents from all walks of life. A number of members are second-generation members of the club, having become junior members with their families, and then bringing their own families into the club. Website

Davey’s Bay Yacht Club —- Visited: 87 Times

Listing id: 10905

The club is located off Davey’s Bay Road, Mt. Eliza, Victoria, Australia and is accessed by a short walk along the cliff top. Even on days of very light winds, a sea breeze normally pops up late in the afternoon allowing us to complete a race. Website

Docklands Yacht Club —- Visited: 141 Times

Listing id: 11003

Docklands Yacht Club is situated overlooking Victoria Harbour with sweeping views of the Melbourne City skyline and the fast developing Docklands precinct. Sailing is from the 60 metre pontoon at Shed 2, North Wharf Road, where the club facilities are located. Website

Esperance Bay Yacht Club —- Visited: 68 Times

Listing id: 11020

The Esperance Bay Yacht Club is a dynamic club committed to the enjoyment of sailing and ensuring that the sport of sailing is available to everyone. Website

Flinders Yacht Club —- Visited: 84 Times

Listing id: 11000

On 27 October 2020, 37 people interested in forming a club to ‘foster interest in boating in Flinders’ met in the recreation room of the Flinders Caravan Park and founded the Flinders Yacht Club. Website

Frankston Yacht Club —- Visited: 116 Times

Listing id: 10908

Geelong Trailable Yacht Club —- Visited: 60 Times

North Geelong

Listing id: 10911

Geelong Trailable Yacht Club may be reached thru P.O Box 899, Geelong Victoria 3220 – Ph# 0408 546193 or email at [email protected]. Website

Gippsland Lakes Yacht Club —- Visited: 58 Times

East Gippsland

Listing id: 10975

On the 19th January 1937 24 people attended a meeting convened by John Kingswell Lloyd at the Soldiers Memorial Hall in Bairnsdale with the purpose of forming a motor boat and sailing club. After it was agreed to proceed, Robert Simpson moved that the name of the club be the Gippland Lakes Yacht Club, and Ralph Sinclair Thomson was elected as its President. Website

Hartley TS 18/21 Yacht Club —- Visited: 75 Times

Listing id: 10976

The Hartley TS 18 – 21 Yacht Club is devoted to the Richard Hartley designed TS18 and TS 21 Trailer Sailers. We are also devoted to having a fun and interesting time on and off the water. Website

Hastings Yacht Club —- Visited: 90 Times

Listing id: 11001

Hastings Yacht Club may be reached thru Josie Hamilton – Ph# 0416 003261 or email at [email protected]. Website

Hidden Harbour Motor Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 104 Times

Port Phillip

Listing id: 11008

Hidden Harbour Motor Yacht Squadron is based in Port Phillip (Victoria, Australia). We are an independent boating club with members that come together to enjoy a variety of boat related activities including fishing, cruising, education, or simply “messing around in boats” in a family friendly environmen. Website

Hobsons Bay Yacht Club —- Visited: 111 Times

Williamstown

Listing id: 10917

Visitors to Hobson’s Bay Yacht Club will find our club right in the heart of Williamstown. The club is very close to the shops, entertainment and social life as well as enjoying fantastic views of the city and the West Gate Bridge. Website

Indented Head Yacht Club —- Visited: 58 Times

Listing id: 10977

Our Club welcomes both visitors and new members and looks forward to supplying training and racing to satisfy all junior and senior sailors for the next season. Website

Lake Boga Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 10919

Lake Boga Yacht Club is located at Murray Valley Highway, Lake Boga, VIC 3584 – PH# 03 5037 2747.

Lake Wellington Yacht Club —- Visited: 52 Times

Listing id: 10979

Founded 1961. Home of the Marlay Point Overnight Race. Excellent sailing and accommodation conditions. Suitable venue for championship events. Website

Latrobe Valley Yacht Club —- Visited: 60 Times

Listing id: 10921

The Latrobe Valley Yacht Club is located on the western shore of the Hazelwood Power Station cooling ponds. The Club is surrounded by large grassed areas, picnic and BBQ facilities, aquatic hall, accessible toilets and camping facilities provided by the LaTrobe City Council. Website

Loch Sport Boat Club —- Visited: 48 Times

Listing id: 10980

Loch Sport is located on the southern shore of Lake Victoria. It also has direct access to the Ninety Mile Beach and is surrounded by National and Coastal Parkland. Website

McCrae Yacht Club —- Visited: 79 Times

Listing id: 10981

McCrae Yacht Club is one of the most active and well respected off-the-beach yacht clubs in Victoria, with excellent facilities and a strong and happy membership which include a number of past and present State and National champions. Website

Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club —- Visited: 78 Times

Listing id: 10998

The Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club Inc (formally Western Trailable Yacht Club and before that the Western TS Group) is a family orientated sailing club formed on the 28th of June 1973. Website

Merricks Yacht Club —- Visited: 68 Times

Merricks Beach

Listing id: 10926

Merricks Yacht Club was founded in 1964 as a small yard on the foreshore for the many enthusiastic fishermen and sailors in the holiday township of Merricks Beach. Website

Metung Yacht Racing Club —- Visited: 52 Times

Listing id: 10982

The Metung Yacht Club has been operating for more than 40 years and welcomes all visitors, especially sailors, who come to Metung. – Ph# 03 51562315 / 03 98221968. Website

Mordialloc Motor Yacht Club —- Visited: 113 Times

Listing id: 10932

The MMYC was established in 1925 and members in those days sailed their boats out of the creek into the bay. MMYC was one of the earliest clubs to be founded around the shores of Port Phillip. You can see early pictures of the club and activities displayed in the club house today. Website

Mt Martha Yacht Club —- Visited: 98 Times

Listing id: 10984

Mt Martha Yacht Club is an off the beach club. It is situated on the Esplanade Mt Martha with a view and a swimming beach to die for. The Club uses Sparrows for sail training and competes vigorously in the annual inter- galactic!! Website

Newhaven Yacht Squadron Inc. —- Visited: 78 Times

Listing id: 11002

Newhaven Yacht Squadron has over 300 power boats from Runabouts to Cruisers on our register. We organise many regular events for power boaties. These include boat handling & safety, Summer and Winter fishing competitions and cruising in company. Website

Noelex Yacht Association of Australia Inc. —- Visited: 52 Times

Narre Warren

Listing id: 10985

Noelex Yacht Association of Australia Inc. may be reached thru c/- 22 Harries Court Narre Warren North 3804 Vic – Ph# 03 9796 8269 or email at [email protected]. Website

Parkdale Yacht Club —- Visited: 114 Times

Listing id: 10986

Parkdale Yacht Club is known as the ‘friendliest club on the bay’ and proudly lives up to its name. The sailing and training within the club is of high standards and is available on sundays Sep – April as well as twilight sailing on Thursday nights. Website

Patterson River Motor Boat Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 11009

Patterson River Motor Boat Club may be reached thru PO Box 505, Patterson Lakes VIC 3197. Email [email protected]

Point Leo Boat Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 11011

Point Leo Boat Club may be reached thru PO Box 393, Shoreham VIC 3916.

Port Albert Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Port Albert

Listing id: 10935

Port Albert Yacht Club is located at Bay Street, Port Albert, VIC 3971 – PH# 03 5183 2362.

Port Melbourne Yacht Club —- Visited: 104 Times

Port Melbourne

Listing id: 10937

PMYC aims to be a leading club for off-the-beach sailing on Port Phillip Bay, and relies on its members to contribute to the continuing development and operation of the Club. This involvement promotes the friendly culture of the Club and ensures responsiveness to members’ needs. Website

Portland Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 10939

Portland Yacht Club is located at Lee Breakwater Road, Portland VIC 3305 – PH# 03 5523 1899.

Queenscliff Lonsdale Yacht Club —- Visited: 78 Times

Queenscliff

Listing id: 10989

QLYC is a family friendly sailing club. Club members and visitors sail a variety of craft: dinghies, trailer sailers, small and large keelboats, and couta boats. The club has some highly experienced racing sailors, who are enthusiastic and very encouraging to new members. QLYC is affiliated to Yachting Australia and races are conducted according to its rules. Website

Ranelagh Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 61 Times

Listing id: 11005

The Ranelagh Club was established in 1927 as a consequence of the subdivision of the Ranelagh estate. Originally, membership of this club was extremely exclusive one had to be an owner of land within the Ranelagh estate. Website

Rhyll Yacht Club —- Visited: 59 Times

Listing id: 10941

The Rhyll Yacht Club (RYC) has an extensive social program that works hand in hand with the racing calendar. Social events are both in line with racing events and Public Holidays such as New Years, Australia Day and Easter. Website

Rosebud Yacht Club —- Visited: 70 Times

Listing id: 10990

RYC aims to be a family-friendly club for off-the-beach sailing on Port Phillip Bay, and relies on its members to contribute to the continuing development and operation of the Club. Website

Royal Brighton Yacht Club —- Visited: 88 Times

Middle Brighton

Listing id: 10942

Royal Brighton Yacht Club is located at 253 The Esplanade , Middle Brighton VIC 3186 – PH# 03 9592 3092 or email at [email protected]. Website

Royal Geelong Yacht Club —- Visited: 58 Times

Listing id: 10964

The Royal Geelong Yacht Club is recognised as one of Australia’s premier Yacht Clubs and boasts a proud history that stretches 150 years. Website

Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 99 Times

Listing id: 10944

The Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron , with a history of over 120 years, is one of the oldest yacht clubs in Victoria with a long list of historical firsts. Situated at St. Kilda in close proximity to Melbourne central business district, it is regarded as the centre of aquatic events in Victoria. Website

Royal Victorian Motor Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 11010

Royal Victorian Motor Yacht Club may be reached thru 260 Nelson Place, Williamstown VIC 3016 – PH# 03 9397 5036. Email [email protected]

Royal Yacht Club of Victoria —- Visited: 109 Times

Listing id: 10991

Records show that the Club is undoubtedly Australia’s senior yacht club and as such is steeped in decades of yachting history and tradition. Website

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Mount Eliza, VIC, 3930, Australia

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The Royal Victoria Yacht Club began with a yacht race in 1892. With a long tradition in racing, we host a variety of local regattas throughout the year, encouraging sportsmanship and excellence in competitive sailing. 

The Club has one of the premier Learn to Sail programs in Canada. Our Dinghy sailors compete at all levels in a variety of dinghies, including Bytes, Opti’s Lasers, 29rs, 49rs, 420s and Fireballs, We are proud to be the home port for multiple National, International and Olympic sailors and we are particularly proud of our recent Paralympic podium finishes!

Dinghy sailing at our Club is complemented by several keelboat racing programs; there is a fleet of smaller, easy to sail keelboats (Martin 242’s) which are available for adult sailing instruction and for use by members for competition. In addition there are very active fleets of Mini 12 and 2.4mR boats as well as fleets of larger keelboats and multihull boats that do both Distance sailing and Round the Buoys sailing. 

We also have a growing and exciting Radio Controlled racing series and are hosting two 6 Meter keel boats that we expect to be campaigning nationally and internationally once the COVID pandemic is under control. For more information about 6 Meter sailboats, visit 6metre.com

All of the fleets take advantage of the wonderful sailing weather that we have here in Victoria and race all year round. During the summer months keel boat races are held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, the rest of the year we sail on Sundays.  We have both casual and competitive racing.

In normal times we encourage people interested in keelboat racing to come down to the Club on race days when you will be sure to be able to ‘catch a ride’ on a race boat!  Due to COVID, we are asking people interested in racing, but who do not have a boat, to contact the Administration Office.

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Welcome to Victoria Beach Yacht Club

The Victoria Beach Yacht Club is a non-profit, member funded organization with the expressed goal of supporting and growing the sport of sailing in the Victoria Beach community and surrounding areas.

This is achieved through programming such as sailing schools for youths to adults, weekend racing, regattas and facilities for instruction, equipment and boat storage. Please browse the site to get a better handle on who we are and what we are all about.

Victoria Beach Yacht Club is the right place for you!

What can vbyc offer you, weekend racing.

Most Weekends thought the Summer we have Racing. If you are just starting out come out and see what they are about, and in no time you will be racing with us. Just remember you don't need fast boat to win. Just come out to learn more about sailing!

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The most fun you will have this summer! We have been running sailing programs for over 20 years with certified instructors that are energetic and knowledgeable.

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Don't want to drag your gear down to the beach if you have a Stand up Paddle Board, Windsurfing Equipment, Kite Surfing, Kayak then VBYC can offer you storage for you gear!

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VERY EARLY HISTORY 

Looking back to the early days of the Victoria Yacht Club in 1853.

There is a lack of reliable records about the Club’s origins. Facts are difficult to verify. Searches of Trove to find newspaper reports of business activities by the men who were listed as yacht owners on the 1856 register of the Victoria Yacht Club has revealed the following information about four members. 

• George F. Verdon
• W.R. Probert
• Mr. John Musson
• Dr. J. Wilkins. 

It is possible that during the summer of 1853, these four gentlemen were meeting at social gatherings at one of the hotels in Melbourne, the Tattersalls Hotel or the Port Phillip Club Hotel, and the Chusan Hotel in Sandridge, before the Port Phillip Yacht Club was established in May, 1853. These men may have engaged in sailing races. 

An advertisement appeared in the Argus on Saturday 25 th   February, 1854 to announce that a William Richard Probert had taken Mr. George F. Verdon into partnership at his business located at Sandridge. As from 17th February 1854, the business would be known as ‘Probert, Verdon & Co.’ and operate as a ship chandlers and commission agents. They may have jointly owned the yacht Petrel.  

Surgeon Dr. John Wilkins was a landowner and owned several hotels. Deceased persons were kept in the pub cellars before autopsy or/and burial. Dr. Wilkins was the Surgeon for the Port of Melbourne (1853) and, in 1861, Dr. Wilkins built the mortuary at Williamstown which still stands in Ann Street. 

Mr John Musson, is noted as a Contractor based in St. Kilda and was listed as a member (1857) of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (PIV) and the Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) with business activities in Geelong. 

Captain Charles Ferguson, who became Vice Commodore of the Victoria Yacht Club in 1856, was the Harbour Master in Williamstown (1852) and the Water Police Magistrate. He may have had dealings with Mr. William Stawell, who became the State Attorney General in 1855. Mr. W.F. Stawell (later Sir) was known for his keen interest in sports and was the Club’s first Commodore. It is highly likely that Captain Ferguson met the port surgeon, Dr. Wilkins as part of his duties as water police magistrate. The Port Phillip Club Hotel in Flinders Street, now known as the Young and Jackson Hotel, may have been owned by Dr. Wilkins (this needs to be verified). 

There is more information available in yachting news reports from 1856 onwards. There are papers and sailing logs lodged with the State Library from ‘Colonel’ Richard Heath who was Vice Commodore in 1872. He sailed the yacht Southern Cross with the Victoria Yacht Club from 1857. A manuscript by a Hartley R. Watson is lodged with the State Library of Victoria titled “Logs related to sailing: 1890-1956” and Mr H.F. Watson (Bill) was reappointed as RYCV’s Honorary Historian at the Annual General meeting in August 1965.  He held this role for forty years. 

Ann Goodwin, Chair Archives Sub-committee, GC member 2018-19

Founded in May 1853 at the Port Phillip Yacht Club, Royal Yacht Club of Victoria has a long and proud history being one of the oldest clubs in Australia. In 1873, the Club was granted the privilege of flying the Blue Ensign of the Colony of Victoria. Queen Victoria, in 1886, granted the Club the privileges of a royal club and the Admiralty granted a Full Warrant to fly the Blue Ensign of Her Majesty’s Fleet. The Club added the name ‘Royal’ to its name and it has since been known as the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria. 

The Club is continually looking to explore every opportunity to further the experience for Members. In 2013, the Club celebrated its 160th year with a formal evening at one of Melbourne’s biggest icons, the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). An exciting time for the Club lies ahead, both on and off the water. 

Club races in the very early days were held on Corio Bay, but in 1873 the Club moved to its present site at 120 Nelson Place, Williamstown on the banks of the picturesque Port Phillip. It was to be the dawn on a new era, and a move the Club has never regretted. 

The average class of yacht on the Club register was much different from today, with straight-stemmed deep-keel cutters ranging from 6 to 40 tons. Most of the famous yachts seen in Port Phillip have been on the Royals register, including the 400-ton schooner   Undine , owned by the Millar brothers, and the beautiful 35-ton   Cushie Doo . 

As a senior club, it is no surprise that two of the biggest sailing events in Australia’s history, the 1956 Olympics and the 1983 America’s Cup both featured RYCV. To Royals went the honour of hosting the 5.5 metre yachts at the 1956 Games. The 1983 Australian challenge for the America’s Cup was perhaps the most significant commitment ever entered into by the Club over its long history. Although Williamstown-sponsored   Challenge 12   was not successful in defeating Australia II for the right to challenge, some members of the Victorian team were co-opted into the victorious Bond syndicate which wrestled the America’s Cup from New York. 

The Club has had some fine sailors over the years and although a number of Royals crews have competed in the Sydney to Hobart race, it wasn’t until 1996 that a Club boat won:   Terra Firma,   sailed by clubmen Dean Wilson, Scott Carlisle and as principal helmsman, Ian ‘Barney’ Walker. 

The Clubhouse

Lack of funds in the early days prevented the acquisition of a clubhouse with members sailing from Williamstown but meeting at the Port Phillip Club Hotel in Flinders Street, and later in the Old Temple Court, Collins Street. It was not until 1905 that the Club moved into a home of its own, when it obtained the lease on Wickliffe House, a grand building on the Upper Esplande in St Kilda. 

It being felt that the city rooms tended to make the Club more of a social than a sailing club; it was decided to make Williamstown the sole clubhouse. It represented a huge commitment financially, but finally in 1935 the Club had its own building. 

In 1967, the Club began construction of a marina and the 100-year-old two-storey boathouse was demolished to make room for an extended hardstand. What was not planned though was the loss of the clubhouse three years later in 1970. A fire began in the kitchen and raced through the wooden building, destroying the majority of the Club’s treasured relics such as pictures, half-models and honour boards. Stoically, Members rallied and the Club rose metaphorically from the ashes, a new brick building having been constructed for the benefit of the 350 Members only a little over a year later. 

In 2002, there was an extension of the clubhouse with the addition of fresh office and meeting spaces. Not long after this, a new and significantly larger deck was also constructed allowing Club events to spill out from the clubhouse to overlook our magnificent lawn area and embrace our view of the Melbourne CBD. Royals is fond of its past but equally looks to the future. 

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Want to know more?

You can read more about the history of the Club in the   souvenir booklet   prepared for the 150th Anniversary.

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Interested in helping us build our Club archives? We’d love your help! If you have anything you’d like to add to the club archives, please contact the office on (03) 9397 1277 or submit your contribution to   Ann Goodwin (Archives Chair 2018-19).

Ann’s always looking for stories, photographs and documents that can be added to our collection. Volunteers are always needed to help us with:

• Sort through and organise the Club archives
• Present the collection in a meaningful way