Yacht Club Facilities

Adequate facilities for university yachtsmen are at last available. Beginning this coming season, members of the University Yacht Club will be able to use the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club as a "base," storing their boats there and participating in RPNYC centreboard races.

Until now, the university club has existed mainly to pick a team for Tournament. With no place to store their craft, student yachties from centres outside Wellington leave them at home when they come back from the summer holidays—and later summer sailing can be the most enjoyable part of the season.

Under an agreement with the RPNYC officials, the VUW club becomes an affiliated club and can thus hire the sheds at normal club fees. The RPNYC have also offered storage space, free of charge, for any boats owned by the club to be used as training boats. The university club can now go ahead with fund-raising schemes knowing that they will have a place to put the yacht.

It should be interesting to watch the progress of the club. The facilities are now there—all that is required is support from all those interested in sailing, whether they be diehard racing fanatics for whom the season never ends, fine weather Sunday afternoon social sailors, or anybody who wishes to take part in an activity that is the most elemental and yet graceful of sports.