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Welcome to the Royal Forth Yacht Club. We are an established water-sports club with over 150 years of history. The Club is based at Granton Harbour within easy reach of Edinburgh city centre and provides fast access to the beautiful sailing waters of the Firth of Forth, for day sailing or for ventures further afield.
A varied racing and cruising programme is offered for members’ participation and the Club has its own fully serviced moorings for members’ boats and a manned launch service to access them. Our extensive boatyard is available for secure boat storage and basic maintenance. There are several club boats for members to use, as well as providing the opportunity to crew for other boat owners.
Our onshore facilities include a welcoming clubhouse, function room and patio with licensed facilities and hospitality seating for up to 70 persons to accommodate the busy, varied social programme throughout the entire year.
Whether an experienced sailor or beginner, boat owner or just seeking the opportunity to get out on the water, please get in contact and we would be delighted to welcome you to the Club. For more information click here .
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Live Jazz and Sunday Roast: Sunday 24th March
Last call for tickets! Don't miss out on an afternoon of live trad jazz followed by an informal Sunday roast. The jazz band is 'Brian Robertson's Forth River Ragtimers' accompanied by some talented singers. The jazz will be followed by a delicious roast dinner and optional dessert. This is a great opportunity for members to bring family and friends and to make and afternoon/ evening of it! More »
15 Mar 2024
WINTER TALK - Easter Island by Reed Boat - Nick Thorpe, Thurs 21st March, 7pm
Back in the early months of the new millennium, travel author and RFYC member Nick Thorpe set off on an experimental voyage to Easter Island on a slowly-sinking boat made of bundled reeds. On Thursday 21st he will recount the hair-raising details of his 2500-mile voyage, as well as subsequent boat-hitching circumnavigation of Scotland and how themes of improvised navigation and intentional drift continue to inspire his life and work. www.nickthorpe.co.uk More »
14 Mar 2024
WINTER TALK - Sailing to Antartica - Gordon Campion, Thurs 7th March, 7pm
This is the story of sailing in Antarctica in a 70' steel expedition sailing yacht "Global Surveyor" from Largs. Gordon joined the boat in Ushuaia for 21 days at sea, first crossing Drakes Passage then visiting research stations and ex-whaling stations. He saw penguins, whales, and a lot of icebergs. Gordon will show slides, a short film and entertain you with his story. The bar will be open from 19:00 hrs with the talk More »
RFYC Boat Jumble, Sat 16th March, 10-12 noon
If you find that the amount of sailing/boat spares and jumble is taking up valuable space, here is your chance to offer it for sale to others. The Club will host a Boat Jumble Sale which will be open to the public and a table can be booked by clicking the link at the bottom of this page , or via the Book online Social tab on the website. More »
16 Feb 2024
WINTER TALK - RYA Green Blue & Restoration Forth, Thurs 22nd Feb, 7pm
Brighten up your Thursday evening with a talk from the RYA's environmental programme, The Green Blue . The presentation will be delivered by RYA Scotland 's Regional Development Officer (East), Rhys Gorman. He will cover key environmental topics such as habitat protection, water pollution prevention and waste reduction, as well as pointing you to helpful resources and further opportunities to engage and help protect our waters. Rhys' presentation will be More »
15 Feb 2024
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Forth Corinthian Yacht Club
Affordable sailing for all.
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The Forth Corinthian Yacht Club was founded in 1880 in the Granton Hotel, now known as the Claverhouse TA Centre, in Granton Square. It is a self-help club (we're a registered Community Amateur Sports Club) and our motto is "affordable sailing for all". Members are expected to contribute to the functioning of the club by serving on the ...
The Forth Corinthian Yacht Club is about amateur sailors coming together to make sailing affordable for all. Wherever possible, members contribute their own skills and labour to the work of the club and the experience of long-standing members is shared with new members and beginners. Corinthian Yacht Club.
Forth Corinthian Yacht Club badges can also be added to garments. Newsletter, Website and Internet Noticeboard. The Club newsletter, Fairwind, is produced several times a year. Contributions and notices from members are welcomed. Moorings. The club has swinging moorings leased through the Edinburgh Marina Ltd in the East harbour.
The Annual General Meeting of the Forth Corinthian Yacht Club will be held on Sunday the 30th October 2022 at the Trinity Bowling Club, Lomond Road, commencing 14:00 prompt. All Members are invited to attend. Members in good standing are entitled to vote in accordance with the Club Constitution; voting will be by a show of hands. AGENDA
The Forth Corinthian Yacht Club page on YachtsandYachting.com - the first place to stop for reports, results, fixtures & photographs from racing sailing
We've moved over to using WordPress as this will allow more club members to act as contributors, rather than relying on our Webmeister for everything. Having said that, much of the inital content has been lifted from the previous website, and it's only right to acknowledge Jim Sime's work over many years in keeping the club out there on ...
Delighted to receive 26 entries as the event happens for the first time since 2019 Posted on 29 Jun 2022 Forth Corinthian 125 anniversary by Nigel Duncan A raft of activities this Saturday Posted on 15 Jun 2005 MSPs sail with under-threat club by Willie Barr At Forth Corinthian Yacht Club Posted on 20 Sep 2004
Extracts from 'The Forth Corinthian Yacht Club' by Jack Haldane. In 1880 several gentlemen met in a room at the Granton Hotel (now HMS Claverhouse) and formed the Forth Corinthian Club. FCYC yachting started to take shape with the 1887 Portobello Regatta. A method of handicapping was decided and 'balloon canvas' (used as a spinnaker ...
The Forth Corinthian Yacht Club was founded in 1880 in Granton. It is a self-help club and our motto is "affordable sailing for all". Friends of the Forth Corinthian Yacht Club
Visiting crew are very welcome to use the facilities of the Royal Forth Yacht Club and the Forth Corinthian Yacht Club. To gain access to the RFYC facilities (daytime hours): Either attend at the RFYC club office or phone +44 131 552 8560 (09:00 hrs to 13:00 hrs Tuesday to Friday, or 09:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs on a Wednesday) and the access code ...
Congratulations to intrepid Forth Corinthian, Morag Edward, who has successfully sailed the Atlantic. She left Cascais in Portugal on 18th September on The Europa, a tall ship training vessel and landed in Puerto Madryn in Patagonia on 17th November 2022.
Friday 1 March - Anna Gebruk (Tyche) will be talking about Walruses in Spitzbergen. Friday 29 March - Paul Taylor (Hirta) and David Cox (Moonshine) on sailing from Puerto Rico to Scotland. All talks will be at Trinity Bowling Club. Doors open at 7 for 7:30 start. This entry was posted in 29th January 2024 by .
Welcome to the Royal Forth Yacht Club. We are an established water-sports club with over 150 years of history. The Club is based at Granton Harbour within easy reach of Edinburgh city centre and provides fast access to the beautiful sailing waters of the Firth of Forth, for day sailing or for ventures further afield. ...
As well our racing program, we usually have a program of social sailing events, and of course all year round we have social events - though in truth, those are concentrated over the winter months.
Firth of Forth. The Firth of Forth is a fine stretch of water for day sailing and there are good opportunities for cruising longer distances either up river to Bo'ness and Charleston or down river towards the harbours of the East Neuk of Fife on the north side and Dunbar on the south. The waters off Granton are superb for racing.
Contains -. Club Constitution and Rules. Minutes of Council Meetings. Copies of Annual Accounts.
A full calendar of racing events ranging from short and long 'round the cans' courses to passage and more 'social' races has this year been supplemented by a few cruising events to entice you all out of the harbour! It's all in the Club Handbook.
Racing. Sailing Instructions. Race Marks. Race Mark Positions Chart. Race Results 2023. Leaderboard: Joint Passage Races 2023. Leaderboard: Friday White Sail Early. Leaderboard: Friday White Sail Late. Leaderboard: Weekend Short Race Series Early.
Extracts from 'The Forth Corinthian Yacht Club' by Jack Haldane. Granton Harbour was an enterprising Victorian achievement by the Duke of Buccleuch, who owned the site. The middle pier was called Victoria Pier, as it was started in 1837, the year Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne.
Commodore's Notes by Linda Pennycook, Corinthian goes from Sailing to Bowling by Melvyn Bond, Granton Developments by Graham Russell, Sailing News by Malcolm Blyth September 2000 Cruising the Nile by Charles Jedrej, Sammie J in Gibraltar, Blyth Spirit story of a yacht delivery Denmark to Granton by Malcolm Blyth, Russia that's where! by ...
01.3 Forth Yacht Clubs Association (FYCA) Safety Regulations for Yachts will apply. 01.4 These are general sailing instructions. 01.5 Specific event rules, detailed within the FCYC Handbook, may over rule any of the rules. 02.1 Closed Club events are open to all yachts belonging or chartered to and under the control of members of FCYC. 02.2 ...
The Club may wish to publish a membership handbook, yearbook or directory. This would include member's (or in the case of a household membership the lead family member's) [name, email addresses, phone/ mobile number, addresses boat name, call sign, mooring location] and will be available to all members, in either electronic or paper versions.
A collection of hopefully useful links. If you've found something that you think we could add to this section, please get in touch.