Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club
Coordinates: 32°0′5.88″S 115°46′25.52″E / 32.0016333°S 115.7737556°E
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| Short name | RFBYC |
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| Founded | 1896 |
| Location | Peppermint Grove, Western Australia |
| Website | Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club |
The Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club is a yacht club situated in Freshwater Bay on the Swan River in Peppermint Grove, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
The club was founded in 1896 by a group of friends including Aubrey Sherwood and Edward Keane,[1] whose residence is now the RFBYC clubhouse. It is the second yacht club in Perth to be granted the royal charter and it has established a strong but friendly rivalry with the other royal club, Royal Perth Yacht Club.[2]
Each year the fleets of the two Royal clubs race, with the prize 'The Governor's Cup' being presented by the Governor of Western Australia as the Queen's representative and patron of royal clubs.
The club holds functions weekly in both the Athol Hobbs Room and Main Function and Dining Room with a bar open 7 days of the week to members.
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ official site
- ^ Tregonning, K. G. (Kennedy Gordon); Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club (1996), The Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club 1896-1996, Austed Publishing with the Club, ISBN 978-1-86307-028-7
External links[]
Media related to Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club at Wikimedia Commons
- Royal yacht clubs
- Yacht clubs in Western Australia
- Swan River (Western Australia)
- 1896 establishments in Australia
- Sports clubs established in 1896
- Sporting clubs in Perth, Western Australia
- Organisations based in Australia with royal patronage