The RQYS community came out in droves on Easter Sunday to celebrate our annual Kids Easter Party! Between the face painting, colouring-in competition, Easter bonnet parade and the bouncy castle, […]

DATE:  23/4/2025 WIND:  NE-E-SE-SSE-Under 10 knots TIDE: L@12:23-0.67M COURSE: 22Bravo NUMBER OF BOATS: 40 The forecast from BOM and all of the models I use showed a very light wind […]

Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron (RQYS) sailors travelled north to Yeppoon over the weekend to compete in the 2025 ILCA Queensland State Championships, hosted by Keppel Bay Sailing Club. The regatta […]

As I Saw It (and remembered it!) Saturday, 12 April 25 Well, that was a bit of a disappointing and soggy finish to the club’s sailing season. With a forecast […]

DATE:  16/4/2025 WIND:  Variable “southerly” TIDE: L@17:19-0.57m COURSE: 20B NUMBER OF BOATS: 40 When the course for the afternoon was chosen, it was supposed to be a simple reach, beat, […]

I’ve done quite intense training leading up to this event with multiple camps in Sydney, the NZ Nationals, and of course, time on the water at home with QAS in […]

Sailing into the Future: Celebrating Our Winds of Change Graduates! Making Waves Foundation Brisbane is thrilled to celebrate the graduates of the Term 1 2025 Winds of Change program! Over the […]

As I Saw It (and remembered it!) Saturday, 5 April 25 We were back  on the water after a week off due to racing being call off last week, which […]

DATE:  9/4/2025 WIND: SE-SSE-14-22 KNOTS TIDE: L@14:04- 0.61M COURSE: 23A NUMBER OF BOATS: 47 What a brilliant arvo. The breeze provided great consistency. Although the 25 knots at the finish […]

An outcome of your feedback in the Annual Member Survey held earlier this year, is the preference for an ongoing avenue to comment on aspects, good and bad, around the […]

After a welcome hiatus after the months of hard work to produce your 2024 Mainsheet publication, we have finally come back up for some air and are now happy to […]

RQYS Member, Dougal Henderson has just arrived back from a wonderful experience aboard the ‘Windeward Bound’ tall ship and shared his feedback: I have just come back from a week’s […]