Nine boats, and 13 hardy sailors started in the first two heats of the Opening Series. Initially in flukey and then strong winds Leigh Glover managed to win both races, while Martin showed consistency in coming sixth and then fifth. Simon Webster came first among the Melges in both races, helped by both Stewart Carter and Richard Jagger being on the rescue boat. Koby Langford and Liam Clarke battled it out in their Pacers - doing a great job in challenging conditions. · Read more
Simon Webster, the MYC Sailing Admiral, achieved victory in Heat 8 under difficult conditions. Admiral Nimitz once said 'An Admiral who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough." but today our Sailing Admiral (okay Captain) proved that trying to hard finally leads to success. After Simon in Heat 8 was Karen Buckingham, and Pete Balka in the Sabres. Heat 7 saw Richard Jagger, Simon (again) and Matt Darby on the podium. Well done team! · Read more
It was a day of ignominy for Merrick's Laser sailors where, after completing three laps of the course, they followed Mitch Campbell (who had missed briefing) on an unplanned fourth lap in the fifth race of the Opening Series. Was this an attempt at a collective Magoo Award, or just the fact that none of these sailors can count to three? In the end they took #1, #2 & #3 on handicap anyway. · Read more
It was light and variable winds, and for much of the race many sailors were going faster backwards with the tide. So after a shortened course we were left with the results where #1 Richard Jagger, #2 Stewart Carter and #3 was Tom Clarke. Oh well, there is always next week. · Read more
We formally started the season with challenging Northerly winds that lead to both Martin Corden and Matt Darby spending time washing their sails and displaying the bottom of their boats. But when things get tough the tough getting going and it was all Melges on the podium with #1 (Tom Clarke), #2 (Richard Jagger) and #3 (Stewart Carter). · Read more

Welcome to Merricks Yacht Club

Come and enjoy sailing and socialising at our friendly club on the beautiful sandy shore of Westernport Bay. The social and sailing program can be found at https://www.revolutionise.com.au/merricks/sailing/myc-program

The club has a long proud history and joyful spirit that comes from its active committed membership with the oportunity for members, who are looking to participate in race duty, can volunteer by accessing the online Duty Roster.

There are often after-race social events and our ever growing weekly Thursday evening gathering hosted by Sue Rutley, which starting at 5:30 PM for the now very popular happy hour. 

New members are welcome and information on joining the club can be viewed on the Membership Page

Merricks Yach Club sail a wide range of off-the-beach and trailerable yacht classes which includes Multilhulls, A Class, Weta and Mosquito, with the ever growing monohulls clases that include Lasers, 420, Sabre, Pacer, Melges 14, RS-Aero, Moth, Waszp and Optimist.  The trailerable yachts include the Castle 650 and Explorer 16 classes who are always looking for extra crew.

Friend and family members are welcome to come join us for a days sailing by simply joining with a simply click on the following link : SailPass

For assistance with the FindMyShift rostering system, please email Stewart Carter at rearcommodore@merricks.org.

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