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Royal Harwich Yacht Club

Neighbours of Woolverstone Marina, the Royal Harwich is an extremely active yacht club which welcomes visitors to its excellent facilities

Located immediately down-river from its bigger neighbour Woolverstone Marina, the Royal Harwich Yacht Club has much to recommend it as a stop-over.

The Royal Harwich has both pontoon berths and swinging moorings which it is happy to offer to visiting yachts – subject to availability. Prior contact is advisable; see the details above.

The feature which will appeal to many visitors is the riverside footpath to Pin Mill, about a mile down-river, which sets off from the bottom of RHYC’s lawn.

The Royal Harwich boasts an excellent new club house which offers great catering and local Suffolk ales in addition to first class showers, toilets and laundry facilities.

Facilities at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club:

• Pontoon and swinging moorings
• Visitors pontoon berths available
• Slipway and scrubbing posts
• Large modern clubhouse and restaurant
• Outdoor food terrace overlooking the river
• Excellent showers and changing rooms
• Shore power

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HRH The Princess Royal names ‘Lion Venture’ at Royal Harwich Yacht Club

HRH The Princess Royal, President of the Royal Yachting Association , celebrates the 175th anniversary of sailing at Royal Harwich Yacht Club .

HRH The Princess Royal, visited the Royal Harwich Yacht Club on 30th January to celebrate 175 years since the founding of the Club and the release of an Illustrated History Book of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, 1843 – 2018.

Celebrations took place at the Club where Her Royal Highness was presented with a copy of the book and named a new boat for The Woolverstone Project , a charity set up by RHYC that provides opportunities for people with disabilities to go sailing.

Despite its illustrious history and Royal connections, the Royal Harwich Yacht Club is now a diverse, lively and inclusive club that offers a wide range of sailing, including RYA approved sail training courses and social activities for all ages and welcomes new members. Marking the 175th celebration with a commemorative book and the Royal Visit is testament to the amount of work and dedication of all involved in the development of the Club over its 175 years.

During her visit, The Princess Royal named the RS Venture Connect SCS that has been especially adapted by RS Sailing for sailors with disabilities. The boat was named Lion Venture in honour of RHYC’s “Rampant Lion”, part of its identity since being given an admiralty warrant in 1845 when Her Majesty The Dowager Queen Adelaide became its first Royal Patron.

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Royal Harwich Yacht Club

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RHYC is based in a stunning clubhouse at Woolverstone, on the banks of the beautiful River Orwell in Suffolk, a few miles east of Ipswich. It’s a fabulous location, not just for dinghy sailing and as a great base for cruising, but also for relaxing on the lawn enjoying a drink or a meal overlooking the river!

We are a friendly, lively and inclusive club, offering a wide range of sailing and social activities, and we always welcome new members. We encourage and support dinghy, keelboat and yacht racing as well as a range of cruising activities. We have a spacious dinghy park and a slipway that can be used at virtually all states of the tide. We also have our own marina, which is open to visitors, and swinging moorings on the river.

Our clubhouse provides excellent bar and catering facilities serving the needs of members as well as visiting sailors, clubs and cruising associations, who are always welcome. The clubhouse is a fantastic venue that can be booked for private and corporate functions by members and non members.

Royal Harwich Yacht Club Woolverstone Ipswich Suffolk IP9 1AT

RHYC is located a few miles south of Ipswich, on the banks of the River Orwell. Coming from Ipswich, the turning to the club is a left turn from the B1456 in the village of Woolverstone.

Name: Kathryn Deaton

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Royal Harwich Yacht Club

There was no yacht club on the East Coast of England before the year 1843, but on September 28 of that year one was formed at Harwich. It does not appear to have flourished for the first year or so of its existence. The Admiralty granted it a warrant on April I, 1845, and a few days later an intimation was received that H.M. the Queen Dowager Adelaide had consented to extend her patronage to it, and from that time it appears to have entered upon a period of prosperity.

A few years later one finds reference in contemporary records to the high position which the club held in the estimation of yachtsmen, and likewise to the exceptional privileges which its members enjoyed, including exemptions from foreign port dues. In 1846 Queen Victoria and H.R.H. Prince Consort became patrons.

In looking through the records of various yacht clubs, one notices how comparatively lax the regulations in regard to the choice of distinguishing flags appear to have been in the earlier days of the sport. It is interesting to note in this connection that about the time the Royal Harwich obtained its Admiralty warrant the matter was receiving more attention at the hands of the authorities, as an application on the part of the club to make some alteration in the device which it was authorized to carry on its blue ensign was refused by the Admiralty on the ground that ‘great inconvenience attended the changing of devices in the flags of yacht clubs, and their lordships are sorry they cannot comply with the request.’

The first challenge ever sent from this country to the New York Yacht Club for the America Cup was forwarded by the Royal Harwich Club on behalf of Mr. Ashbury, who took over his schooner Cambria, in 1871, to try to recover the trophy which had been won nineteen years before by the American schooner. This naturally brought the club into prominence in the yachting world, and when Mr. Ashbury returned to the attack in the following year with his new schooner  Livonia , it was the Royal Harwich Yacht Club that again sent the challenge on his behalf.The Harwich Regatta now always takes place immediately after the opening matches of the Metropolitan clubs on the Thames, and the ‘Down Swin Matches’ provide races for the vessels from the river to the eastern port.

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River Orwell – Woolverstone, IP9 1AT

Royal Harwich Yacht Club: A friendly Club with bar and galley adjacent to a marina with 54 permanent berths with stunning views of the River Orwell. We always welcome visitors and will do our best to accommodate you!

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Yacht club’s St Aubin base to have £3.3m makeover

MEMBERS of the Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club have voted for a multi-million-pound redevelopment of their “structurally tired” clubhouse in St Aubin.

The partial rebuild, which would see the creation of a new ground- and first-floor extension with improved facilities and dining areas, was one of three redevelopment options presented at the club’s recent annual general meeting.

A summary report presented to members ahead of the meeting explained that, beyond routine maintenance, the existing building was “structurally very tired” with both construction and electrical work needed. It added that, due to “the success of sailing”, improved training, changing and storage facilities were also required.

“The time is right for members to consider options to carry a fully inclusive yacht club forward into the future,” it stated.

“The additional space offered by option three provides for two potential training areas, improved and extended showering facilities and increased storage space.”

Building a new “purpose-built” club was also among the options presented to members, but the partial rebuild – estimated to cost £3.3m – proved the most popular, receiving 62 of the 129 votes cast.

In an email to members, commodore Jeremy Swetenham said the vote did not “commit the club to further expenditure”, but that it “will define the option that will go forward for more detailed feasibility and fundraising. The work starts in earnest now. It will be a long and complex journey and is highly likely that it will be at least two years before any works can begin.”

He explained that the next phase of the project – ahead of the club’s 2025 AGM – would see a feasibility study assessing building works, fundraising and profitability.

Mr Swetenham added: “The option plan told us that, to start and complete this phase, we collectively need to raise £170,000.”

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