Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club
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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, 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
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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 as the Queen's representative and patron of royal clubs.
The club holds functions weekly in both the Athol Hobbs Room and Main Function and Dining Room with a bar open 7 days of the week to members. All catering and staff at Royal Freshwater Bat Yacht Club work through Spices Catering Company.
Yacht club
A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to sailing and yachting.-Description:Yacht Clubs are mostly located by the sea, although there are some that have been established at a lake or riverside locations...
situated in Freshwater Bay on the Swan River
Swan River (Western Australia)
The Swan River estuary flows through the city of Perth, in the south west of Western Australia. Its lower reaches are relatively wide and deep, with few constrictions, while the upper reaches are usually quite narrow and shallow....
in Peppermint Grove, a suburb of Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
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The club was founded in 1896 by a group of friends including Aubrey Sherwood and Edward Keane, 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
Royal Perth Yacht Club
The Royal Perth Yacht Club is a yacht club in Perth, Western Australia. -Early history:The "Perth Yacht and Boat Club" in 1880 was able to build a jetty at the foot of William Street in Perth Water. Perth Yacht Club received the Royal Charter in 1890. The club shifted to Crawley in 1953 when the...
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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 as the Queen's representative and patron of royal clubs.
The club holds functions weekly in both the Athol Hobbs Room and Main Function and Dining Room with a bar open 7 days of the week to members. All catering and staff at Royal Freshwater Bat Yacht Club work through Spices Catering Company.
History
- Tregonning, K. G. (1996) The Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club 1896-1996, Perth : Austed Publishing with the Club. ISBN 1863070281 - http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/record=b1706536~S2