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Welcome to the Alfreds Discover Sailing & Training Academy! Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club offers training pathways for Kids, Teens and Adults from the beginner stages through advanced racing. Training is delivered by accredited instructors, following the Australian Sailing (AS) training syllabus. We provide a safe, fun, and affordable environment to try sailing. 

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The Royal Motor Yacht Club Broken Bay is ideally situated on the beautiful waters of Pittwater and is widely recognised as one of Australia’s premier yacht clubs. Since its inception back in the 1920s the Club has undergone many changes; once a small semi-rural establishment that has transformed into a modern facility catering for a diverse community of cruising, sailing, racing, fishing and social events and activities.

A spirit of kinship and camaraderie has always been evident at our club and continues to evolve. We welcome not only those who own a boat but also those who just want to socialise and enjoy the Club’s atmosphere.

The Royal Motor Yacht Club Broken Bay offers a world-class marina facility with permanent and casual berths available. The Club provides secure safe parking for boat owner members and access to a range of services from fuel sales, on board catering and slipway facilities for vessels up to 100 tonnes.

The Club boasts 256 fixed berths of all sizes, 38 swing moorings, 17 Club moorings and a 300mtr floating break-wall of 11 casual visitor berths.

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Welcome to the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club , an iconic Club nestled in picturesque Broken Bay on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Affectionately known as the “Alfreds,” our Club stands as a testament to a rich nautical legacy, being one of Australia’s oldest and most esteemed yacht clubs. Proudly hosting the coveted Admiral’s Cup, a sought-after trophy in the yachting realm, we invite boating enthusiasts to experience the allure of our historic Club.

As one of Australia’s largest club-based marinas, Alfreds boasts an array of premier facilities tailored to enhance your sailing lifestyle. Featuring 341 berths, 18 moorings, two expansive hardstands with cranes, dinghy storage, sail lockers, kayak racks, showers, laundry, and a clubhouse with a vibrant bar and bistro, our marina is designed to cater to the diverse needs of all sailors.

The Boatyard proudly houses a state-of-the-art 50-tonne travel lift, offering services such as antifoul servicing, prop speed, top-side polishing, and more. Complemented by on-site tenants who specialise in vessel servicing, we ensure your servicing experience is seamless and easy.

We would like extend a warm invitation to the boating community (sail or power) to stay with us on our marina or moorings, to enjoy the Club’s amenities, including our restaurant that has unparalleled views and to explore the beautiful waterways at your leisure.

Our marina can accommodate vessels up to 27 meters (88′).  Berth fees include access to the Club facilities and services include 7-day berth assistance, power, water, and ship-to-shore pump-out. Alternatively, our convenient moorings, located in proximity to the marina, includes a complimentary 7-day on-demand tender service.

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Visiting Pittwater north of Sydney? Caroline Strainig previews what you can expect if you call in at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club.

If the word “royal” makes you think of “stuffy,” think again, at least in the context of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club at Pittwater. The club is one of the most prestigious in Australia, but has an open-door policy and welcomes visitors. It is located at 16 Mitala Street, Newport, ph (02) 9997 1022, email [email protected], website www.rpayc.com.au

Onshore facilities

Land facilities include Halyards Bar and Café, a bistro-style restaurant popular prior to and after racing, which has a large lawn area outside, complete with undercover barbecue and children's play area. Halyards prides itself on its weekend breakfasts. For that special occasion, the fine-dining Quadrant Restaurant (bookings essential) is open Friday nights. You can find opening hours for Halyards and the Edinburgh Lounge on the website under “trading hours”.

Club regulations stipulate a minimum of shirts, shorts and footwear for Halyards and for the top level of the clubhouse smart, casual attire and suitable footwear. Hats or singlets are not allowed in either area.

Member-only facilities include a gymnasium, billiards room , and archives room – the latter being a small nautical library.

The premises have security parking for members only, but there is plenty of extra adjacent parking for visitors.

The small township of Newport is an easy if hilly walk away for groceries.

On-water facilities

The marina complex today boasts 352 marina berths, moorings, hardstand storage, work berths, visitors' berths and a boatyard. The slipway facility was redeveloped in 2007 and incorporates a 50-tonne travel lift, hardstand for up to 15 boats, custom-built cradles and a 1000kg crane. Visiting boat owners are welcome to book into the boatyard facility and there are comprehensive marine services on site, including rigging, electrical, shipwrights and chandlery.

The club also owns 18 swing moorings, and there are a number of recreational moorings in popular bays in Pittwater for member use.

Fuel (24-hour, credit card) and water are available at the marina. A casual berth for a 12m yacht will cost you $45 a night, but book well ahead, especially during holiday periods. A key to the showers and toilets is available for a refundable deposit. Visit the website, click on ” waterfront facilities” and then “marina & moorings” for more details. Space-permitting, you are welcome to call in with your boat at the marina for a couple of hours to have a drink or a meal, but avoid Wednesdays and Saturdays, which are busy sail-training/ race days.

Cruising and racing

The club has strong cruising and racing divisions and operates a comprehensive sail-training program, including a youth development program that has fostered many champion sailors. The premier racing event is the Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Offshore Series.

Organised cruising activities range from short weekend trips within the Pittwater/Hawkesbury area through to major cruises to the Whitsundays and Lord Howe Island, an extended Christmas cruise and an overseas cruise every couple of years. There is a lot of excellent cruising and passage-planning info on the website and dozens of photos. The cruising division also gets together for a very popular social dinner once a month known as “First Friday”.

The history

The club was established “to promote the sport of yachting and boating.” The forerunner was The Mosquito Yacht Club, founded in Sydney in 1856. The name was later changed to the Prince Alfred Yacht Club to commemorate a visit by Prince Alfred to Sydney, and in August 1911 King George V gave the club permission to use the royal prefix.

In 1919 the committee decided that Sydney Harbour was becoming too congested for yacht racing and resolved to move to Pittwater. The first facilities on the current site were opened on December 17, 1938, and apart from World War II, the club has continued to grow and expand ever since.

Today the stated vision is: “Excellence in sailing and to provide a world-class yachting facility that attracts and involves members in the enjoyment of the sport and leisure activity that is sailing.”

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Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club ( RPAYC ) is one of Australia's leading yacht clubs with a strong elite sailing focus located in Pittwater Newport, New South Wales .

The club was formerly located at Kirribilli before relocating to its present location on Green Point, towards the southern end of Pittwater . The club is situated to the north of Crystal Bay and across from the Newport Arms Hotel . The club maintains an adjacent slipway, hardstand and other maintenance facilities on the northern shore of Crystal Bay.

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Welcome to the alfreds, royal prince alfred yacht club, berthing, moorings and storage, casual enquiry + permanent berth/mooring application, storage options.

Large storage lockers are available for the storage of your sailing needs such as sails. Air conditioned and secure storage. 

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This website is provided for the benefit of Members and their guests at the RPAYC. Photos are available to download in high resolution and we endeavour to capture as many photos as possible of Club events. If there are any issues with any of the photos, please contact us through the Contact Page.

Please visit the links above to find photos of recent club events that you have participated in. Photos can be downloaded by clicking on the shopping cart icon in the bottom right hand corner of the photo. You can then choose what size file you would like to download. Add as many photos to your cart as you like.

The Centreboard photos are focused on youth, and therefore protected by a password and access is only granted to parents of centreboard youth or committee members. Please ask the Sailing Office for the password.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Moscow Nightlife

• Posted on April 14, 2018 July 26, 2018
• by Kings of Russia
• 8 minute read

Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM  you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

Weekday jokers: if you’re on the hunt for some sexy Russian girls during the week, here are two tips to make your life easier.

Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.

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