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Ballaarat Yacht Club

Locality: Ballarat, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5331 2208

Address: Wendouree Pde 3350 Ballarat, VIC, Australia

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24.01.2022 Diners enjoying the view.....thanks Eric Johnston

24.01.2022 A couple of boys on their Lasers enjoying the last rays of light yesterday at Lake Wendouree.

23.01.2022 Don’t you just love the enthusiasm of our youth! Check out Jensen & his Laser on the lake in the middle winter Great photo Angelique Coelho

23.01.2022 On my walk to the Ballaarat Yacht Club last night to catch up with friends, such a stunning evening.

23.01.2022 Great to see our boys taking advantage of the sunshine & fair winds today!

22.01.2022 Good Luck Alison Weatherly.

22.01.2022 REMEMBERANCE DAY

21.01.2022 Looking forward to being back on the water...

21.01.2022 Ben Lodge & Cooper Brown having fun on the 420 at Cairn Curran on their Opening Day.

20.01.2022 Ballarat Yacht Club Ballarat Yacht Club LogoSailing for all to resume as per easing of Covid restrictions Hi All...Continue reading

19.01.2022 Beautiful still day on Lake Wendouree...dining views & on water entertainment included with lunch

19.01.2022 Any cat lovers out there?

18.01.2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDg51k_F5B8/

16.01.2022 Bookings are essential.

15.01.2022 More great photos of the Junior Coaching clinic last Friday afternoon. Photos courtesy of Pat Hutton & Michelle Styles.

14.01.2022 A couple of great photos of Valdera, our grand old 25 footer in desperate need of restoration. Does any know any wealthy benefactors that would like to help us out? Do you recognize anyone on board? I think I can see Webby’s shorts??

11.01.2022 Ballarat Yacht Club Races 11 and 12 of the spring pennant 14/11/2020 Saturday saw a fine day with again a great turnout of boats with moderate winds 14km/hr gusting to 20 coming in from the west later on from the West North West. These lighter winds test the capability of all sailors especially when the odd gusts come and you don’t read the water ahead. The seniors this week had a good tussle with juniors sharing the spoils. What was great to see today was two sets of brother...s and one of our junior girls returning. Great to see Jacobi Dunn back on the water partnering with Ryan Harbour after sustaining a broken forearm ( Not In Sailing).and it was a good tussle between the Coelho and Bellette brothers. Have to check the History files to see if thishas happened before. More fun ahead I bet. All in good day of sailing. Race 11 Laser Scratch !st NIF Jason Hegert 2nd Gusto Peter Coburn 3rd Cake by The Ocean: Neville Bilney 4th Into the Blue Ben Lodge 5th See you later David Youlden 6th Wind Wisperer David Wilson 9th. Race 11 Laser Handicap !st Gusto Peter Coburn 2nd NIF Jason Hegert 3rd Wind Wisperer David Wilson 4th See You Later David Youlden 5th Cake by The ocean: Neville Bilney 6th Into the Blue Ben Lodge Race 11 Juniors Scratch Laser 4.7 Pacer and Opti !st No Name Tristan Coelho 2nd Lachlan Bellette 3rd Cooper Bellette 4th Jacobi Dunn /Ryan Harbour 5th Jensen Coelho Race 11 Juniors Handicap Laser 4.7 Pacer and Opti !st No Name Tristan Coelho 2nd Ryan Harbour/ Jacobi Dunn 3rd Lachlan Bellette 4th Cooper Bellette 5th Jensen Coelho Race 12 Laser Scratcht 1st Into the Blue: Ben Lodge 2nd Cake by the Ocean: Neville Bilney 3rd NFI Jason Hegert 4th Gusto Peter Coburn 5th Wind Wisperer 6th See You Later David Youlden Race 12 Laser Handicap 1st Cake by the Ocean: Neville Bilney 2nd Into the Blue: Ben Lodge 3rd NFI Jason Hegert 4th Gusto Peter Coburn 5th Wind Wisperer David Wilson 6th See You Later David Youlden Race 12 Juniors Scratch 1st Jacobi Dunn/Ryan Harbour 2nd Jensen Coelho 3rd Tristan Coelho 4th Lachlan Bellette 5th Cooper Bellette Race12 Junior Handicap Laser 4.,7 Pacer and Opti 1st 13 Ryan Harbour/Jacobi Dunn 2nd No name Jensen Coelho 3rd Tristan Coelho 4th Lachlan Bellette 5th Cooper Bellette

09.01.2022 Well done Alison Weatherly & what a Champion you are, congratulations from all of us at Ballaarat Yacht Club.

08.01.2022 Check out the Start of the Lasers on Saturday. Thanks Russell Hawkes. Watch with sound.

05.01.2022 Some very old yacht club photos featuring Valdera & some yacht members that are no longer with us, some great memories were had on the Deck after racing.

05.01.2022 Beautiful weather on the lake(glad we’re not sailing) Thanks Eric Johnston

05.01.2022 Sail training in the Minnow, Opti & Laser juniors yesterday & a small fleet of Lasers today for the 1st race of the season.

05.01.2022 Angelique Coelho captured these photos of the Juniors in their close racing on Saturday.

04.01.2022 Some great photos from yesterday’s racing, even a remote contrlolled yacht off View point! Thanks for the photos Cynthia Davidson & Russell Hawkes.

04.01.2022 Fabulous day for a blast across the Lake with Eric Johnston, Alex Hughes, Pat Hutton, Colin Bailey & Lesley Davies

03.01.2022 Check out this great night time shot of the Yacht Club taken by Mitchell Harris Wines.

03.01.2022 The Lawn, Lake Wendouree 1887 Lake Wendouree, the modern name of Yuille's Swamp, very truly indicates by its name the transformation which has come over that sc...ene of one time alternate swamp and mud or dust hollow. By conserving the water and pouring in additions from catchwater drains and overflow from the forest reservoirs, a permanent lake has been created, which has for some years now been the great home of local aquatic sports and pleasure taking. It is the only inland water resorted to for aquatic contests of any note, and the beauty of its shores, the safe depths of its water, and the large fleet of steam, sailing, and rowing boats at all times available, have made the lake the favorite trysting place not only of boating people but, during the summer season, of picnic parties from nearly all parts of the colony. Since the early sixties, when Bob McLaren and Ned Williams led the way in boating, or Town-clerk Combe and Town-surveyor Baird pushed out in a flat bottomed punt through the masses of reeds that then covered the "swamp", the changes effected there have been many and great. To-day the visitor sees a nearly cleared sheet of some 300 acres of water, jetties, boathouses, yachts, and boats in profusion, and a fine fleet of steam pleasure boats plying from shore to shore at fares within the reach of all kinds of pleasure seekers. The City Council, with wise sagacity, has done much to improve the shores, and the walks round the well-planted borders are now among the pleasantest resorts of the pedestrian, who always has, as a permanent, strong attraction to healthful exercise, the botanic gardens as the western margin of the lake, and on the lake itself a host of vessels going hither and thither as may suit the fancy of private parties or the routine of the steam companies and others plying for regular traffic. The Ballarat Yacht Club was formed at a meeting held at Gill's Lake View Hotel, on the 29th May, 1877. Extract above is from: The History of Ballarat, from the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time. Author: William Bramwell Withers. Published by F. W Niven. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Image: The Lawn - Lake Wendouree 1887. Francis Wilson Niven (1831 - 1905) Niven was a lithographic printer and mariner. At the age of 13 he went to sea and was apprenticed to John Sargent, captain of the Stebonheath. After prospecting with limited success, Niven decided upon the occupation of printing, specifically lithography, because it suited the artistic disposition he had inherited from his father. He purchased presses for 40 from Alfred Ronalds, a nurseryman at Ballarat who had formerly been a lithographer at Geelong. Niven taught himself to use this equipment with the aid of Ure’s Dictionary of Arts. His first known commercial work was assisting with illustrations on Ballarat Punch in 1857. In the 1860s he trained with the lithographic artist Hermann Deutsch in his Bridge Road office. They produced many prints of Ballarat scenes. Between 1863 and 1865 Deutsch sold him the business. Innovation in lithography was a significant part of the firm’s success and in 1873 Niven imported one of the earliest known commercial steam lithographic presses in Australia. F. W. Niven & Co. became a large printing business and at its peak employing seventy hands and having some 7000 worth of machinery.

02.01.2022 Plenty going on at The Yachty this week...using the downtime to do some improvements

02.01.2022 Anyone else been doing some boat maintenance over the lockdown? This is my 52 year old Arafura Cadet built by former Commodore Bill Matthews. A bit more work to do yet.........