Black Rock Yacht Club
Yacht club in Victoria, Australia
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Black Rock Yacht Club is a Yacht club for off-the-beach sailing boats (mostly dinghies) on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, seventeen kilometres south of Melbourne, Australia. The club was founded in 1904 and has a proud history of Olympic, world and Australian champions. Classes sailed include International 14, OK, Sabre, 125, 420, Moth, Sabot, Optimist, RS Aero, and Australian Lightweight Sharpie.
In 1926 the nineteenth century warship HMVS Cerberus was scuttled to form a breakwater in front of the club and as a result launching is quite easy in most wind conditions.
Black Rock Yacht Club hosts many national and international regattas such as the Moth World Championship (2004–05), the 470 World Championships in 1999, the Finn Gold Cup (world champs) twice, and the RS Aero Worlds (2019–20). The fleet of International 14s sailing out of Black Rock is particularly strong and 2005 World Champion Lindsay Irwin is a BRYC member.