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Delicious food in a calm, pretty environment. Having checked in to Center Parcs next door where the food opens we’re pretty dire, finding this was like winning the lottery.

Stayed in the marina and this was the go to place for breakfast and dinner. Always enjoyed would be happy to return

A short walk from centreparcs. Really good food and very friendly owner. He recommended good wines at reasonable cost and was really good with kids. Just beware that they do not take credit cards and English debit cards don't work in their machine.

A great Marina here near Centerparcs. Lovely and clean and a nice place for a walk etc. Would visit again.

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Where Dreams Set Sail, Memories Take Anchor.

Welcome to Royal Papua Yacht Club

Established in 1921 as the Port Moresby Aquatic Club, the club is now the premier yachting club in the region. The club received its Royal Assent in 1977 and celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2021.

The Boat Shed

A charming outdoor cafe and bar where every sip and bite is enjoyed against the backdrop of waterfront serenity.

Where culinary excellence meets seaside elegance, offering a delectable journey amid breathtaking ocean views at RPYC.

Kids Splash Park

A water wonderland at the Royal Papua Yacht Club, where young adventurers delight in aquatic fun and laughter.

Sailing Division

Sailing Division: The heart of adventure at the Royal Papua Yacht Club, where sailors unite for thrilling regattas and maritime camaraderie.

A state-of-the-art fitness center at the Royal Papua Yacht Club, ensuring members stay shipshape while enjoying stunning waterfront views.

Lounge Bars

Exquisite settings at the Royal Papua Yacht Club where members unwind with elegant libations, captivating ambiance, and scenic coastal views.

Becoming a member of the Royal Papua Yacht Club is an invitation to an exclusive coastal paradise where you can indulge in a world of maritime luxury, camaraderie, and adventure.

At the royal papua yacht club, we offer a diverse range of clubs that cater to a variety of interests. from our sailing and fishing divisions for avid water sports enthusiasts to our kids' programs for young adventurers, there's something for everyone..

Our club provides a multifaceted experience that suits a wide spectrum of interests and passions.

Game Fishing

The excitement of game fishing lies in the thrill of the chase, the anticipation of a big catch, and the raw connection to the untamed ocean. It's an adrenaline-fueled adventure where the hunt for marlin, tuna, or other formidable species unfolds against the backdrop of vast, open waters.

The buzz of ocean scuba diving and snorkeling is an immersion into a world of wonder beneath the surface. It's a journey into the unknown, where vibrant coral reefs, exotic marine life, and hidden treasures come to life.

Konedobu Kanu Klub

The thrill of out-rigger canoeing is a fusion of athleticism and the serene beauty of coastal waters. With each paddle stroke, the canoe glides gracefully, and the thrill of being one with the ocean takes hold.

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Welcome to Port Washington Yacht Club

40’49’22” n 73’42’20” w, experience a place to gather amongst friends and create lasting memories..

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Located on the majestic Manhasset Bay, Port Washington Yacht Club offers a wide range of waterfront activities, including Ideal 18 and big boat sailing, kayaks, paddleboarding and much more. On land, members can partake in fine dining, sunsets with friends on the North Patio, trapshooting, tennis, platform tennis, swimming and more.

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While membership is limited and currently at capacity, please email [email protected] for information and to be placed on the waitlist.

Royal Akarana Yacht Club

After 50 years on the Landing at Okahu Bay, RAYC has grown both on and off the water, and in the early 2000’s realised a need for a new Club House to continue to provide for and grow its sailors.

Realising the other Sports Clubs on the Landing were in a similar position, RAYC created the Akarana Marine Sports Charitable Trust to fundraise and build the Hyundai Marine Sports Centre, a Club House where all marine-based sports clubs were welcome.

While RAYC is commonly known as the Home of Blue Water Sailing (and still boasts an impressive bluewater race calendar) it’s fast becoming a new home for Youth Sailing as well, with the biggest Sailing Academy in New Zealand plus a track record of world-class dinghy regattas.

RAYC – A Brief History

The Royal Akarana Yacht Club is one of New Zealand’s oldest yacht clubs and occupies a unique place in this country’s recreational sailing history. Throughout its 127 years it has been at the forefront of New Zealand yachting and particularly in its early years, had a huge influence over the way the sport developed in this country.

It began in 1895 at the North Shore Sailing Club over at Devonport, directly across the harbour from where the current clubhouse now stands. At the time, the only other yacht club on the Waitemata Harbour was the elitist Auckland Yacht Club (now the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron) and North Shore club was formed largely as a reaction to its exclusive membership policies.

Hinemoa 1896

The mixed bag of cruisers and open boats that North Shore put out were definitely not the sort of “yachts” that were encouraged at the AYC, as the  Sporting and Dramatic Review  of 21 November 1895 reported at the time “the boats are by no means flyers, but the fun will be there all the same.”

The clubs first commodore W.E. Bennett presented blue silk pennant embroidered with the letters “NSSC” for that first season’s racing. It was won by Wilkie Wilkinson’s fast mullet boat-type  Hinemoa . This historic silk pennant, now 110 years old, hangs in the main lounge just above the bar.

As the club prospered and as sport grew in popularity, the mix of members and boats began to change. In 1898 along with a new club, the Parnell Sailing Club, North Shore promoted the Arch Logan designed 18ft 6in Restricted Patiki Class, which raced successfully for the next five or six years, and was New Zealand’s first properly established centreboard class. RAYC’s current class of vintage centre-boarders, the 18-foot M-class, are the direct descendents of this early “patiki” class.

Laurel, Inter-colonial 1-Rater champion 1898

That same year the club was deeply involved in New Zealand’s first major international sailing regatta, the Inter-colonial 1-Rater Championship, the feature event of the grandly titled North Shore Native Regatta, and won by club member Charles Bailey junior in his yacht  Laurel , defeating six local boats, including Arch Logan’s  Mercia  and the two Australian entrants  Bronzewing IV  and  Geisha.

In 1900 the club put its full support behind a new class of keel yacht, the 24-foot linear raters, built to the very latest international rating rule. Yachts were generally built as large as an owner could afford with very little attention to any rules or limitations. The 24-foot linear raters were a conscious attempt to create an affordable type that Club members of modest means could race and cruise the gulf. Six were built and along with the Restricted Patikis were the toast of the harbour providing the close racing deemed necessary for the sport to remain attractive, as well as being the only true yacht “classes” anywhere in New Zealand at that time. Several of these lovely linear raters,  Matua ,  Miro ,  Bona , along with the two 26-foot linear raters,  Janet  and  Queenie , are still sailing.

W.A. “Wilkie” Wilkinson

By 1901 there was a subtle shift in the club membership and at the 1901 AGM Charles Murdoch moved that the name of the club be changed to that of the North Shore Yacht Club on the grounds that there are now more “yachts” in the club than “sailing boats”.

Throughout all these changes, one person stood at the centre, W.A. “Wilkie” Wilkinson, who had been the prime mover in the formation of the club back in 1895 and had been its secretary ever since. The influx of moneyed yachtsmen into the club began to cause some friction. To the wealthy amateur, professionalism was abhorred and in the parlance of the day, anyone who made their living “on or from the sea” was a professional. This struck at seamen, sail makers, fishermen, boat builders, shipwrights, spar-makers, painters, dock workers, in fact, many of the foundation members fell into one or other of these categories. Several motions to ban “professionals” from the club were proposed and defeated, but the battle lines had been drawn.

At a very stormy 1905 AGM the entire executive of the North Shore Yacht Club, all the keel yacht owners, resigned  en masse , went down the road to Bill Oliver’s shed and formed a new club, the Devonport Yacht Club.

The New Zealand Yachtsman

Wilkinson and crack boat builder Charles Collings were all that were left at North Shore with any experience in running the club’s affairs. The club struggled that season and almost closed its doors but by the start of the 1905/06 season, Wilkinson was in place as Commodore and had the club cranked up and flying. Membership just grew and grew year after year and by the outbreak of war in 1914, the North Shore Yacht Club, driven relentlessly by Wilkinson, was far and away the biggest yacht club in New Zealand and ran up to nine and ten divisions on race day (including launch races).

Throughout all this Wilkinson, a printer by trade published a fabulous weekly newspaper, the  New Zealand Yachtsman  that ran for nine years from 1909 until 1918 covering news from all around New Zealand. The paper became a forum for discussion and development and was a huge influence in the way yachting and yacht clubs developed. Sadly, amid the paper shortages and deprivations of 1918, it bankrupted him. He closed his printing business, resigned his office at the club and went to work for the  Auckland Star  newspaper where he continued to expound on all things yachting under his famous by-line “Speedwell”, the name of his champion 24-foot linear rater that he had raced with the North Shore Sailing Club in back 1900.

The First World War pretty much stopped everything in its tracks. The club carried on throughout but others such as the RNZYS and Devonport Yacht Club went into recess. Devonport did not re-convene after the War, but in 1923 a new club was formed under the old burgee.

The quest for a suitable clubhouse site had occupied the AGM’s since the turn of the century and despite promises, nothing had been forthcoming. Finally, in 1922, a site was offered on the new reclamation at Mechanics Bay on the Parnell foreshore. At the AGM on September 29 1922, the club accepted the new site and shifted its operations to the southern shore and at the same time, approved a name change to that of Akarana Yacht Club, Akarana being a Maori translation of “Auckland”.

During the 1920’s the sport of yachting, particularly the small centreboard classes, boomed. Through his magazine and newspaper columns Wilkinson had championed the cause of the 14-foot One-Design, a type of cheap small racing yacht proposed by him and designed by Charles Bailey junior, with which to encourage young men into the sport. While there was a lot of sympathy for the concept not much happened until 1920 when the new governor, the war hero Admiral Lord Jellicoe, took and interest and bought one of the class for his own use, which he name  Iron Duke  (and today is on display in the National Maritime Museum in Auckland).

Lord Jellicoe Sailing Iron Duke December 1920

Suddenly everyone wanted to own a 14-foot One Design and the establishment of a national competition with a fine silver trophy, the Sanders Cup, put up by Auckland silversmiths Walker & Hall Ltd, the 14-foot One-Design, soon to be known as the X-class, really took off, becoming a national phenomenon and garnering more column inches in the daily papers than any other facet of yachting.

The X-class however, was not the only small centre boarder on the harbour, Akarana, and most other clubs also raced the 14-foot Square bilge Y-class, the 14-foot round bilge T-class, the 16-foot S-class, the cat-rigged 11ft 6in trainer Z-class, as well as the four restricted mullet boat classes, H, I, L and N.

In 1922, Akarana Yacht Club requested the establishment of the V-class for the growing numbers of square bilge 18-footers that were being built to designs by Club member George Honour, and these along with the new RNZYS restricted patikis, known as the M-class provided great racing for club members for the next two decades.

The vexing problems of a clubhouse however, dragged on and on, and with successive changes to harbour board and council committees, Akarana’s allotted clubhouse site moved, changed shape and occasionally vanished altogether from the various reclamation plans. Not until 1927 were the details finally hammered out and the clubhouse officially opened on November 21 1928, six years after they had taken that drastic step to move across the harbour.

The club now entered a period of consolidation where it strengthened its involvement with the harbour centreboard fleets, instituted outboard motor racing, and became heavily involved with the members of the NZ Division of the Royal Navy, based at Devonport. From 1930 onwards, a senior naval officer was always elected as the club vice-president.

Back in 1901 the Club had instituted its first Ocean Races, at the time little more than lengthy passage races but it had persevered and ran the early Auckland to Tauranga races through the mid 1920’s. With the establishment of the clubhouse, it now began to actively involve itself with visiting overseas yachtsmen. Each time a visiting yacht arrived in port, a flotilla of Club yachts and launches would be dispatched to meet the visitors outside Tiri and escort them into the harbour where they would be welcomed and made honorary members of the Club for the duration of their stay.

The goodwill this generated paid off handsomely. In 1931 the 130-foot schooner  Northern Light  arrived in Auckland. She was owned by renowned concert violinist Zlatko Balokovic who later gave concerts on the Auckland Town Hall. As an appreciation of the hospitality from Akarana, Madame Balokovic offered to present a cup for a 100 mile race, part of which must be sailed in the hours of darkness. This trophy, named the Balokovic Cup was first raced for in 1932 and is still the most prestigious event on the Club calendar.

In addition to its prominence among the centreboard fleets, Akarana had by now, assembled a hard core of dedicated blue water yachtsmen. In 1931 F.J. Bennell, the owner of the 42-foot Melbourne ketch  Oimara  challenged anyone in New Zealand to race him across the Tasman to Sydney. The challenge was accepted by Erling Tambs the Norwegian owner of the 40-foot cutter  Teddy , at the time based in Auckland as a guest of the Akarana Yacht Club.

The  Teddy  was prepared for the race and crewed by members of Akarana. At the last minute, another club yacht the  Rangi  owned by W.A.E. Leonard, also entered the race. Akarana Yacht Club then put up a trophy, the Trans-Tasman Cup as a perpetual challenge trophy for pleasure yachts racing between Australia and New Zealand.

The race itself generated enormous publicity on both sides of the Tasman. Ocean cruising was hardly a commonplace activity at the time (it was dangerous); let alone an Ocean Race across the Tasman. Just under 14 days after she left Auckland  Teddy  crept across the finish line in Sydney to take line and handicap and become the inaugural winner of the Trans-Tasman Cup.

The success of the 1931 Trans-Tasman and the subsequent events established the Akarana Yacht club as the founder of blue water racing in New Zealand and the logical promoter of future off-shore  Rangi , entered the first Trans-Tasman Race in 1931.

It had long been a cherished ambition to obtain a “Royal” prefix to the club’s name, and it was due to the clubs links with the Royal Navy, in particular with that of Lt. Commander Jack Lean RN, a strong supporter of the club, that the club applied for a Royal Warrant in July 1935. Following his return to England in 1937, he was appointed as Akarana’s representative to the Yacht Racing Association.

Vamp on the Derwent River with the burgee of the new RAYC on her sail

The royal warrant finally arrived in 1938. The most interesting point about the Royal Charter was the permission to deface the Blue Ensign with the naval, rather than the imperial crown. At the time, the only other club to be so honoured was the Royal Ocean Racing club in 1928. It would seem that the Club’s close relationship with the Navy and its commitment to blue-water racing, was recognised, and the honour granted accordingly

The Royal Akarana Yacht Club had arrived.

The first event under the Royal badge was the sponsoring of Billy Rogers’ crack 14-footer  Vamp  in the Australian 14-foot championships in Hobart being held as part of the Hobart sesqui-centennial celebrations.

Up against the best 14’s that Australia could muster, including the six-time champion  Triad  sailed by Bill Osborne,  Vamp  won two out of three races to win the Australian 14-foot Championship and become Royal Akarana, and New Zealand’s, first international yachting champion since Charles Bailey junior back in 1898.

The decade ended with probably the greatest display of yachting that Auckland had ever seen, when in 1939, six of the extraordinary Sydney 18-footers arrived to race the Auckland V and M class yachts for the world’s 18-footers Championship trophy. Every yacht club on the harbour entered at least one 18-footer, Royal Akarana entered two. The Club billeted the entire Australian team at the clubhouse, and provided a chef to cook meals and organised entertainments for the visitors.

Jubilee Regatta

The event itself was laden with controversy. Not only was the New Zealand favourite  Jeanette  disqualified after winning the second race that would have given her the title, but after the Australian favourite  Taree  had won the third and final race and clinched the title, a protest was lodged against her by the Akarana yacht  Limerick  alleging a breach of port and starboard just before the start gun.

Following a heated protest meeting at the RAYC clubrooms,  Taree  was disqualified and the Worlds 18-footers Championship trophy awarded to Gordon Chamberlin, sailing the little fancied M-class  Manu  for the Richmond Cruising Club. The enormity of those decisions paled into insignificance when the Australians, incensed by the disqualification of  Taree , refused to hand over the trophy and took it back to Sydney with them. The parade up Queen Street and the Mayoral reception and prize-giving at the Town Hall was cancelled. Once back in Sydney, the owner of  Taree  still refused to hand the trophy back to his club and he and the boat were expelled.

World War II intervened the controversy vanished off the front pages. Finally in 1944 the trophy was returned but it was not until 1946, seven years after the event that the matter was resolved and the trophy handed over to the  Manu  crew.

During World War II the area surrounding the clubhouse was designated a defence area and access to the building was severely restricted but by 1945, access had been eased and the Club’s 50 th  anniversary was an unqualified success. More that 150 entrants were received for the days regatta with pride of place going to club founder Wilkie Wilkinson and his 42-foot cruising ketch  Mandalay . Wilkinson had taken part in that very first race with the North Shore Sailing Club in 1895 in the  Hinemoa . On board the  Mandalay  that day two other of  Hinemoa’s  crew, his brothers Alfred and Edwin Wilkinson.

The exact date of the club’s origin has been confirmed as 1895, of that there is now no question, but for many years the date of 1894 persisted as the club’s origin. Clive Power, RAYC committee member at the time, recalled that such was the argument waged at the time of the clubs 50 th  Anniversary that the committee compromised and gave an origin date of 1894, to appease one group, but held the Jubilee Regatta in 1945 to appease the others, hence the rather confusing dates on the Jubilee Programme.   

In the winter of 1948 the whole Auckland yachting scene changed. For almost 30 years the centreboard fleet had operated on a “circuit” travelling to a different club each weekend. This was intended to maximise the revenues and to prevent clubs competing for yachts and splitting the fleet. Clubs only held races four or five times a season, but they would have the entire Waitemata fleet on their day.

Small boat sailing had boomed since the end of the war and with upwards of 200 boats each weekend at a single club, it was more than most administrators could cope with. The Auckland Yacht and Motor Boat Association, the governing body for Auckland yachting decided to split the racing between the Western Clubs (Ponsonby, Victoria, Richmond, Takapuna, Pt Chevalier) and the Eastern clubs, (Akarana, Tamaki, Kohimarama, Devonport, Wakatere) in the hope of easing the burden on club administrators.

Unfortunately it didn’t quite work our as planned. The bulk of the small boat fleet supported the Western clubs where the prize money was better and all those clubs in the Eastern division were hit by a sudden decline in revenues and several almost closed their doors.

The First Sod

Akarana was hit with a double blow. Not only did they lose the centreboard revenues, but the land that their clubhouse occupied was designated for expansion of the flying boat base and they were given notice to move. After some serious negotiation they accepted a prime site on the new Harbour Board reclamation at “Easthaven”, now known as Okahu Bay, and with the promise of £15.000 from the Harbour Board to finance a spanking new building, they vacated the Mechanics Bay site in July 1949 and sold the building.

As usual, red tape strangled the project. Without a home, Club members were forced to meet wherever they could and for a while Jim Lawlor’s fairmile Ngaroma became the unofficial clubhouse. The project foundered in a welter of changes to the plan, objections from the City Council and the refusal of the Ministry of Works to issue a building permit in variance of the original plans.

Finally, in June 1952, after the subject was raised in Parliament by the local MP, the project got the green light and at a special ceremony in October, Wilkie Wilkinson was asked to turn the first sod. Twelve months later, Royal Akarana Yacht Club held its 58 th  AGM in the new clubhouse.

During this time the club had yet again changed to survive. Royal Akarana entered the 1940’s primarily as a centreboard club, much like any other in Auckland at the time. By the end of the decade, it had all but re-invented itself, moving away from its heavy reliance on centreboard revenues and emerging from the chaos of the late 1940’s as a dedicated long-distance cruising/racing club with its primary emphasis on the husky short-end keelers and cruisers, many of which were being amateur built in back-yards all over Auckland.

The vast experience gained running Trans-Tasman races, Balokovic Cups and other long-distance races was put to good use. The formation of the Ocean Cruising division (OCD) in July 1951, followed by the inaugural White Island race that year strengthened the clubs influence in these areas.

Geoff Smale’s Atua-Hau (K610) and Zephyrantes (K609) Auckland 1953

The move to Okahu Bay, and a new building, coupled with the well publicised inshore and offshore distance race, brought a huge influx of new members (although being the only source of alcohol in a designated “dry” area did have its advantages too). For the next 40 years the Royal Akarana Yacht club would be confirmed as the “Blue Water Club”.

It did however have one last fling with centre-boarders. In the early 1950’s as this country made its first tentative moves towards international, as against merely trans-Tasman, yacht racing, a small group of yachtsmen had taken up the International 14, which at the time was on a short-list for inclusion in the Olympic games, and which was sponsored by Royal Akarana. Isolated as they were from mainstream yachting developments, the Akarana 14’s never really knew if they were competitive or not but an invitation to compete in a series of teams races against Canada and England and the “all-in” race for the impressive Prince of Wales Cup during Cowes Week in 1958 was sufficient incentive to embark on some frantic fund-raising to make the trip.

It’s a much longer story but suffice to say, to the amazement of the British, the kiwis came within an ace of capturing the teams event, and in the Prince of Wales cup race a few days later, Geoff Smale in  Atua Hau , powered off the line into clear air and the rest of the 40-boat fleet never saw which way they went. She won by 6 minutes and 10 seconds, the biggest margin in the history of the Cup. To rub salt in the wounds, she won the ‘old boat’ prize as well.

The 14’s never made Olympic selection and most of the 14-foot sailors moved across  en masse  to the new Flying Dutchman class which had been selected for the 1960 Olympics.

Following on from the White Island race in 1951, the OCD then ran an Auckland to Whangaroa race in addition to a regular string of Trans-Tasman races, and in 1956 the first of many Auckland to Suva races. The Suva race was one of the clubs most popular races, attracting up to 70 entrants at times.

The start of the first Auckland to Suva Race 1956, from left Ranginui, Wanderer, Kismet and Daydream

The OCD also sought to promote offshore cruising and promoted Akarana’s role in the movement, by the creation of the Blue Water Medal, to be awarded to the yacht making the most meritorious cruise to or from New Zealand in any year.

Its first recipient was Tony Armit owner of the 28-foot ketch  Marco Polo  that between 1954 and 1957 became the first New Zealand yacht to make a circumnavigation of the world.  Marco Polo’s  well-travelled and tattered RAYC burgee now hangs in the clubhouse.

The RAYC ocean races were supplemented by a string of long-distance coastal races that honed the skills needed for the longer ocean races but also had the added advantage of attracting a new breed of fast passage yachts into the club. In time the out-and out cruiser with shortened sail and anti-chafe “baggy-wrinkle” tied to its stays, gave way to a specialised breed of yacht that was equally at home in the ocean as it was charging around the inner gulf on a 130 miler.

The entry of Australia into the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Admirals Cup in 1965 was the catalyst for a similar type of contest between Australia and New Zealand that became known as the Southern Cross Cup and once again was a training ground for New Zealand skippers and crew, as well as the proving ground for the up and coming designers such as Paul Whiting, Bruce Farr, Laurie Davidson and Ron Holland.

The story of RAYC’s role in these national and international offshore races over the next 20 years in Southern Cross, Pan-Am Clipper, and Kenwood cups is far too important to truncate it here and is best left to the comprehensive coverage in the clubs Centenary book “Home of Bluewater Sailing” (still available from the RAYC office). Suffice to say however that RAYC’s role in these events had a pivotal effect on the direction of this arm of the sport and the club can quite justifiably claim to have been a major influence in the success and recognition afforded to New Zealand yachtsmen abroad.

Akarana’s record in these competition is second to none but perhaps the jewel in the crown was the winning the Champagne Mumm Cup for the World Ocean Racing Championship in 1986.

Sadly, the cost of mounting such campaigns eventually became too onerous and the endless chore of fund-raising for yet another international regatta eventually took its toll, as did the continual rule changes and pressure for new boats on a regular basis place unreasonable demands on the pockets of yacht owners. RAYC’s last major offshore event was the 1988 Kenwood Cup, and while Club members would continue to participate as individuals, the mantle for off-shore racing passed to the RNZYS.

As Akarana withdrew from the international stage, the club began to change once more. The old guard moved on and the newer younger members, despite continual prodding from the older members who were still around, were not so interested in all that hairy-chested off-shore stuff.

The social changes, particularly those brought about by 7-day shopping and the changes brought about in modern family life where both parents often worked, encroached on the once sacrosanct “weekend”, and changed the way we did our sailing. The proliferation of small affordable cruisers, both power and sail, with all (or most) of the comforts of home put families out on the water where once it had been a predominantly male domain. Not all these newcomers made a successful entry into the world of sailing, but that aside, most of these newcomers didn’t bother with yacht clubs either, but just did their sailing or cruising as and when it pleased them with absolutely no need or inclination to follow race schedules or summer programmes.

Perhaps the biggest area of growth in the past decade or so has been the coastal cruising market which seems to have an almost evangelical following as the baby boomers give up their jobs and hit the water in the same way that their motoring equivalents, the “grey pilgrims”, follow the open road.

The club’s centenary in 1995 marked an end, as well as a beginning.

Today the great blue water keel yacht races are just part of a glorious past. In front of the clubhouse today you will find, Optimists, Cadets, 420’s, Flying Fifteens, sometimes a 49er, the odd M-class or two and the new International 18-foot Catamaran class. The fact that these are parked on the lawn in front of the club, an absolute no-no in days gone by, is perhaps an indication of how the club has changed,

It is perhaps ironic that today, in its 110 th  year and as they prepare to host the World Flying 15 Championships, that Royal Akarana Yacht Club has almost come full circle, having re-invented itself around the centre boarders and small boat fleets that it began with back in 1895.

All that is certain is that change will come again.

Royal Akarana Yacht Club realised a need for a new Club House at the Landing (the current one being 60+ years old) and by unanimous decision create the Akarana Marine Sports Charitable Trust and start planning a new inclusive community Hub.

When looking at the Community around them, RAYC realised that other marine sports slubs (particularly those already operating from the Landing) also needed new club houses, and together they could share not only a facility but also resources like support boats, safety equipment and staff (the ‘shared services’).

Leaving no-one untouched, Covid forces the closure of Royal Akarana Yacht Club and the Hyundai Marine Sports Centre in early 2020.

With a half-finished (and half-funded) building, the Yacht Club and Trust are forced to make difficult decisions after Partners and Grant Funders back out due to the ongoing uncertainty.

Sailing, fundraising and construction all grind to a halt and it’s not until 2022 as NZ  finally emerges from the pandemic, that the Hyundai Marine Sports Centre is finally completed.

By 2023, RAYC is getting back on its feet, the RAYC Academy has become the biggest in New Zealand, Bluewater Racing back on the Calendar and the Club and Trust are gaining a strong reputation for hosting world-class national and international events.

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Delicious food in a calm, pretty environment. Having checked in to Center Parcs next door where the food opens we’re pretty dire, finding this was like winning the lottery.

Stayed in the marina and this was the go to place for breakfast and dinner. Always enjoyed would be happy to return

A short walk from centreparcs. Really good food and very friendly owner. He recommended good wines at reasonable cost and was really good with kids. Just beware that they do not take credit cards and English debit cards don't work in their machine.

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I tried a ship-within-a-ship cruise experience and it was worth it for the endless perks—here’s why

The MSC Yacht Club affords travelers a totally different cruising experience, but you’ll have to splurge.

I heard tales of luxury from people about the ritzy MSC Yacht Club , the ship-within-a-ship concept where discerning passengers enjoy their own area of the cruise ship that includes a dedicated restaurant, private lounge, separate pool and sundeck as well as private butlers and concierges to take of any whim while cruising. The elevated Yacht Club boasts priority everything while sailing MSC.

I sailed on a four-night cruise on the new MSC Seashore, a glitzy ship with Italian flair intermingled with references to New York City at every turn. Although the ship was well-appointed and had amazing dining, drinking and entertainment venues, and a bountiful Top Sail main buffet, thousands of passengers made the ship feel crowded at times, elevators were slow, and as I strolled through the general pools, they were boisterous and crowded.

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Switch gears to MSC Seashore’s Yacht Club, passkey-protected for lucky guests, and is a 180 from the ship’s general spaces. Once you scan your handy Yacht Club wrist badge, or your room key, you’re instantly given entrance to a breathtaking retreat of 131 staterooms and suites. All this luxury does come at a price. Cruise fares will vary based on destination, time of year, and cabin category, but generally speaking you can expect to pay double for the Yacht Club. And from my experience, it’s worth it. Read more about why you should splurge.

You’re fast-tracked through everything

The Yacht Club’s exclusivity and impeccable service standard started from the moment I got dropped off at the Port Canaveral cruise terminal. There were hundreds of people waiting to board at 1pm on embarkation day. I saw in the distance a canopy that said MSC Yacht Club. My husband and I wheeled our carry-on luggage to the representative under the canopy. I gave her my name and within two seconds, she gave me a sticker to wear and up we ascended on the escalator to check in. Just five minutes later, I was directed to the dedicated check-in area for Yacht Club guests. To my right, I saw about 1,000 people serpentine through ropes to do general check-in. I felt a sense of relief; who wants to wait in that line? Five minutes later, a butler from the Yacht Club insisted on wheeling my luggage to board the ship and I was in my room in a total on 12 minutes from the time I stepped foot out of the car to my stateroom in the Yacht Club.

Relaxing and streamlined

In addition, Yacht Club guests have the freedom to get off the ship first for excursions. Your butler will happily escort you off the ship with a smile. Guests also can disembark on the last morning first, which is a big convenience. Your butler walks you right to the place you disembark, bypassing crowds and hassles. Port Canaveral is about an hour away from Orlando International Airport, and we took a 10 am flight home. We didn’t have to linger around until the afternoon for our flight home.

Another perk is that there’s a special seating area in the theater for shows. All the shows were excellent during my voyage. All other ship passengers have to make reservations in advance for shows but that’s not the case for the privileged Yacht Club passengers. As long as you arrive about 10 minutes before any show you choose, a crew member from the Club will allow you entry into a special roped-off section. Again, no rushing through dinner—you have the flexibility to plan your evenings your way.

Your Yacht Club package is packed with remarkable value

The price tag may sound daunting, but there’s lots of value there. All Yacht Club cabins and suites include a premium drink package that covers beverages up to $15. You can use this perk both in the Yacht Club and throughout the ship. In addition, your package includes a two-device Wi-Fi package, which worked well during my sailing. Finally, you get access to the thermal spa suite, which is a place to indulge after a day in port or a sea day. Commonly, there’s a taboo regarding mini-bars, but not in the Yacht Club. It’s stocked each day with the beverages you want; just tell your butler and consider it done.

You get perks ashore too

If your sailing includes a call to Ocean Cay, MSC’s private island, Yacht Club guests get an elevated experience there too. Yacht Club guests enjoy a private area, and a dedicated restaurant called the Ocean House. While other ship guests were hosted to a buffet of predictable fare, I enjoyed a lobster roll, and my husband chose carne asada. In my opinion, one thing that could be improved was the tram service to the Yacht Club’s private area. We were told the last tram back was 3:30pm if we didn’t want to trek a 15-minute walk in the heat. Since we were docked in Ocean Cay for the evening and weren’t sailing, I was a bit dismayed by this logistical quirk. I felt like I was keeping an eye on my phone to make sure I didn’t miss the last tram.

You have private areas with curated food and drink and outdoor spaces

Within the Yacht Club complex, there’s the Yacht Club Restaurant, Top Sail Lounge and the One Pool Buffet, which are all exclusive to Yacht Club guests. Obviously, the food and service are steps above other dining venues of the ship, I can vouch for that. Although the food is delicious, if you don’t want to pay extra to dine at the specialty restaurants or fuss in the main buffet, eating three meals a day in the Yacht Club restaurant can get a bit monotonous. The breakfast is the same daily, and lunch and dinner offer a menu with daily specials plus a few standby selections like a hamburger or pasta each day. Although the Yacht Club Restaurant concept is desirable, I would strongly suggest dining in other venues on board, especially for dinner. I thoroughly enjoyed specialty dining in Ocean Cay Restaurant, Butcher’s Cut, and Kaito Teppanyaki. I also want to mention that late afternoon high tea is offered daily at the Yacht Club Restaurant. It was one of the nicest I have experienced at sea.

Also available exclusively to Yacht Club passengers is the Top Sail Lounge, which offers panoramic water views and has chef-curated selections from morning through late night. We enjoyed popping into the lounge at all hours to try finger foods and sweets. The One Pool Buffet offers a more casual option for breakfast and lunch by the pool. The buffet has grilled fish, sandwiches and lots of delicious options if you want to dine outside.

There’s also an exclusive area with a private pool and two whirlpools for Yacht Club guests only. The sun deck loungers are very comfortable and I never had to worry about finding a lounger, there are ample. One issue I had was that there was almost no shade on the sun deck; there were shaded day beds for Royal Suite and Owners Suite guests, but beyond those, I couldn’t find any shade, which was disappointing.

You can justify the price at the end of your cruise

Overall, the best way to explain my enthusiasm for my MSC Yacht Club experience is this: it’s better to book an interior stateroom in the Yacht Club than a luxe cabin outside the Yacht Club. It’s worth the splurge and you return home feeling truly pampered and it’s money well-spent. And I make this prediction: Once you try a ship-within-a-ship concept like the MSC Yacht Club, you won’t want cruise any other way. Bon Voyage!

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Location place de port côte belge

De nombreux belges parcourent régulièrement ce forum, et j'aimerais en profiter pour leur demander s'ils peuvent me renseigner (ou me dire où m'informer) par rapport au cout de la location d'un emplacement dans un port belge.

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du simple au double zeebrugge étant le plus cher, et Anvers et Ostende les moins chers. Pour un 45 pieds, de 1700 à 3000 roros par an

si je vois bien et que ta "localisation" sur ta fiche est juste, tu habites près de Waremme.

La Zélande n'est pas plus lointaine que notre côte et en plus, tu ne dois pas te taper la E40 le dimanche soir à 40 km/h quand tout va bien.

La Zélande, c'est de 800 à 1200 € pour un 30 pieds.

Réfléchis et si tu veux de plus amples renseignements, appelle la "Belgo-Zélandaise" d'Hisse et Oh, on t'aidera à trouver ton bonheur.

Belgo-Zélandaise?

Merci de vos réponses. en fait j'habite Huy, en Belgique, et mon voilier (un Flirt) fait six mètres de long.

Qu'est-ce que la Belgo-Zélandaise d'"Hisse-et-oh"? Peux-tu m'en dire plus? Cela semble très intéressant. Il ne me semble pas évident de trouver des infos concernant la Zeelande sur le net. Et puis la Hollande, vu sa beauté, et la volonté de nos voisins du Nord de régionaliser nos eaux nationales, cela peut-être sympa ;-).

en plus avec un Flirt, tu aurais plus souvent en Zélande des conditions plus maniables que directement sur la mer du nord. Toutefois, l'ambiance en Zélande est plus ... hollandaise qu'à la côte belge. C'est plus nature (et isolé - parfois désertique) que l'urbanisme assez massif de nos côtes nationales.

haa, la zélande Pour y être depuis 2 ans, je puis dire qu'effectivement les prix y sont plus abordables. Pour mon aloa 23, je débourse 650 roros pour une place de port (bon d'accord, c'est à Kamperland, c'est pas le mieux situé...) Pour le reste, le coin est un vrai petit bonheur. J'habite la région liégeoise et il me faut à peine 2 heures pour rejoindre mon porte avions, même les week-ends de beau temps. Sans rouler comme un fou, et sans les embouteillages qu'on connaît vers la côte belge... Et puis, il n'y a rien à faire, la zélande, c'est beau, c'est sympa, il y a plein de possibilités...

Voilou voilou ma modeste contribution à ce fil^^

Ruben, Seras-tu des nôtres cette année. Je fais remonter le fil la Belgo-Zelandaise pour rappel à tous

De quelle dimension avez-vous besoin ? J'en ai un à 650 LE MOIS.

Déterrer un fil vieux de quinze ans ? La pelleteuse d’or de l’année est pour toi 😂

la Zélande peut m'intéresser quels sont les ports qui pratiquent ces prix (800 à 1200 euros) et y a t'il un accès directe a la mer ouverte ou ce sont des ports de mer intérieure ?

Bonjour, la plupart des port de Zélande sont des ports intérieurs. Au mieux, il faut passer une écluse pour atteindre la mer ouverte. Moi, j'y suis depuis 30 ans et je ne voudrais pas changer pour un port de mer.

peux tu me dire où est ton voilier( as tu une écluse a passer?) pour que je demande les tarifs

Les ports les moins chers sont les ports "communaux" (Brouwershaven, Dintelmond (?), Oudorp (?)...) ou les ports gérés par des clubs ou associations (Middelburg, WSV Volkerak, Burgsluis, Brouwershaven, Colijnsplaat,...). L'essentiel est d'aller voir si tu ne connais pas car tous sont différents en termes de commodités, accès, plans d'eau, ... Ainsi, Le Volkerak est en eau douce bien abrité, "loin" de la mer mais sur un un lac fréquenté par les péniches. Middelburg est une très belle ville sur un canal entre la mer du Nord et le Veersemeer (et accessible facilement en train), Colijnsplaat est sur l'Oostrerchelde qui est un lac maritime à marée avec une vie de club relativement active (en termes hollandais, c'est à dire calme et discret), ... Brugsluis est sur le même lac mais c'est un trou perdu Dans tous les cas, on est à cent lieues des ambiances, des paysages et des plans d'eau de la côte belge ; ça n'a absolument rien à voir (Les autres "zélandais" de ce forum confirmeront). J'y suis depuis 32 ans et je n'en bougerait pas de sitot

merci pour ces infos .

Mais ce ne sont pas ports avec accès direct à la mer ouverte .

L'énorme désavantage de la Zélande est de ne pas avoir d'accès facile à la mer. Donc si tu as un grand voilier aucun autre intérêt que de t'en servir comme caravane. La côte belge permet par contre les déplacements en train.

Même avec un petit voilier , c'est une autre forme de navigation .

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First and foremost, Port Charlotte Yacht club promotes fun and safety as a social center to share common interest and meet new friends. Established in 1959, we are proud to say that we are the 4th oldest Yacht Club in Florida.

We are proud that Port Charlotte Yacht is a unique blend of avant boaters from all over the United States- from full time residents to part time snowbirds, we embrace everyone like family. We also welcome the casual boaters that just love the social atomosphere. No matter what motivates you to come out, we welcome you to join us in any event!

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