2025 Cup Regatta - Welcome Social
What better way to start the Cup Regatta than to join your fellow sailors and partners in the wonderful atmospheric setting of Ferdi and Wendy Darley's shipwrights. This year the wonderful crew of Mercedes IV have organized the event with a nod to Andalusia. We've got delicious paella, drinks and some latin music to get you into the mood. Tickets $75 so get in now. Ole!
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CYAA Vic Summer Series
The Lazy / Hazy days of Summer are fast approaching. Send that wet weather gear off for repair, and get the shorts out once again. What better way to spend a Sunday morning than sailing with your Classics mates than on the waters of Port Phillip. More info here.
Summer Series
2025 Cup Regatta...
Australia's premier classic yacht regatta is back for its 19th rendition. Three days of sailing and socializing on the waters of Port Phillip, bringing together Classics, Tumlarens and Coutas. More detail here.
Nose to Tail Sailing
Marie Louise III leads out
Showing her power and comfort in a blow, the Eight Metre cruiser racer, Marie Louise III leads out from Tumlarens Ettrick (321), Zephyr (318) and Avian (96)
Sirocco
Sirocco, the 44ft sloop built in Tasmania in 1939 from a Sparkman and Stephens design, streaks across Sandy Bay.
Skipjack
Skipjack the 1947 Tumlaren, meticulously restored, leads a gaggle of Tum's after rounding "A Mark". Introduced to Port Phillip in 1937, the Tumlaren was the predominant one-design class on "the Bay"
Mercedes IV
Its all hands to the hoist on Mercedes IV. Mercedes IV built to contest the 1975 Admiral's Cup is today a regular competitor on the waters of Port Phillip.

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CYAA Cup Regatta 2025

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Announcements

CYAA- Summer Series

The CYAA Victorian branch is pleased to announce the 2025/26 Summer Series to be sailed on the waters of Port Phillip.

The series kicks off with Race 1 on Sunday the 5th October, 2025, so get those entries in. 

The notice of race is available here.

Entry is via topyacht here.

The series Sailing Instructions are available for download here.

 

CYAA Cup Regatta 2025

04 August, 2025 – Melbourne

Classic Yacht sailors from around Australia and abroad will meet once again in November on the waters of Port Phillip for the annual Cup Regatta, this year celebrating its 19th edition.

The big news is that the CYAA have decided to include, for the first time, “Modern Classics” in what has become a must do event for the Victorian traditional boat sailor.

The event will provide a mix of sailing and social activities that will fill the weekend, for both those racing and those looking to take things a little easier.

As is the custom, an invitation will be extended to our friends at the CYANZ, and we hope to see many of them in Melbourne once again.

Further details and entry information will be posted soon, so mark it in your diary now for the Melbourne Cup weekend, October 31 to November 2.

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Sayonara Summer Series...

Victorian Challenger Sayonara leads NSW defender Bona out through Sydney Heads to compete in Heat one of the Interstate Yacht Challenge Series on 3rd January 1904. Sayonara won the Series and her owner, Albert Gollin, proposed future challenges be named the Sayonara Cup.

Sayonara Summer Series links...

Race documents and links on the RMYS Classics – Documents, Results and Start Sheets page.

2023/24 Sayonara Summer Series Entries and Results (or click QR Code)

2023/24 Sayonara Summer Series Boat racing and PoB Sign on (or click QR code)

From the Locker...

1967 Admiral’s Cup, from CYCATV. 

Notices and links...

book

The Tradition Lives On...

Coffee Table Book: “The Tradition Lives On – a register of the historic Couta Boats”. From the Couta Boat Association.

Doug Jenkin, CYAA member since 1998

The Doug Jenkin Library

Australian Sailing magazines from CYAA member, Doug Jenkin’s library.

Alwyn - Still "Sailing On"

Hobart 1923 A classer ALWYN, turned 100 on 1 February 2023. Her first 100 years story.

cover of magazine

42 Australian Wooden Sailing Boats

Mark Chew's COVID 19 project - a personal list of 42 boats that are important to Australias sailing History.

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1934 Centenary Regatta

2020 CYAA Cup Regatta entrants, Acrospire III and Acrospire IV, competed in this 1934 regatta - click through to see the program.