Sailing club
Beaumaris Yacht ClubBeaumaris, VIC"Run by sailors for sailors" is how Beaumaris Yacht Club describes itself, and the phrase fits a club that has kept its focus narrow and its atmosphere easy. This is an off-the-beach dinghy club on the Ricketts Point foreshore in Beaumaris, sailing the waters of Beaumaris Bay on Port Phillip's eastern side. There is no marina culture and no keelboat division — boats come off trailers and dollies on the beach, and the Sunday rhythm of morning training and afternoon racing sets the week. The social fabric is deliberately simple. Members gather after Sunday racing, regular barbecues punctuate the season and a Christmas function rounds out the year. The club publishes its duty roster, rules and child-safe standards openly, the marks of a volunteer-run family club that takes its obligations seriously without taking itself too seriously. Its hall doubles as a function venue, helping keep the finances of a small bayside club healthy year-round. One point of clarity matters for visitors: Beaumaris Yacht Club is not the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron — a distinct organisation founded in February 1959 and based at the far end of Beaumaris Bay. The yacht club is the dinghy sailors' club at
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