“Our mission is to provide a pathway for anyone, irrespective of age, gender, fitness, ability or experience and enable them to learn how to sail. We recognise that getting started can be confronting when you have no experience and don’t know anyone that might give you your first start. This is driven by my own personal experience. Having not come from a sailing family myself, I found it confronting as an adult to approach a yacht club knowing I hadn’t sailed before. This created an unnecessary barrier which inhibited me in beginning an involvement in sailing earlier. Roll forward 30 years I’ve had a heap of fun, learned so much, made lifetime friendships and become BYC Commodore!