Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club

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Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club
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Short nameRFBYC
Founded1896
Location Peppermint Grove, Western Australia
Website rfbyc.asn.au OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, 2020

The Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club is a yacht club situated in Freshwater Bay on the Swan River in Peppermint Grove, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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The club was founded in 1896 by a group of friends including Aubrey Sherwood and Edward Keane, [1] [ self-published source ] whose residence is now the RFBYC clubhouse. It is the second yacht club in Perth to be granted the royal charter, and it has established a strong but friendly rivalry with the other royal club, Royal Perth Yacht Club. [2] [ self-published source ]

Each year the fleets of the two Royal clubs race, with the prize The Governor's Cup being presented by the Governor of Western Australia.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About the Club". Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. n.d. Archived from the original on 20 February 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  2. ↑ Tregonning, Kennedy Gordon; Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club (1996). The Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club 1896–1996. Austed Publishing with the Club. ISBN   978-1-86307-028-7.

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