Royal Melbourne Sail Training Academy in St Kilda, Victoria | Boat/sailing instructor

Royal Melbourne Sail Training Academy

Locality: St Kilda, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9534 0059

Address: Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, Pier Road 3182 St Kilda, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.rmys.com.au

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23.01.2022 Keelboat classes at Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron have returned with four classes started over the July 4 & 5 weekend. Lots of fresh non - apartment outdoors fresh air and great sailing conditions #sailing melbourne #stkilda #RMYS #melbourne oudoors

23.01.2022 Sail training resumes Sunday 5 th July at RMYS St.Kilda. A very focussed class of dinghy students stepping up to keelboat training and our bonus 3 months free sailing membership included with this Start Crewing course.# melbourneoutdoors# sailstkilda #RMYS #sailinginmelbourne

18.01.2022 More Keelboat sailing lessons at RMYS St.Kilda Sat 4 th July 2020.# melbourneoutdoors #stkilda #RMYS #sailing inmelbourne

15.01.2022 Keelboat "Start Crewing" course Sunday 15 Dec 2019 at RMYS, St.Kilda. Graduation day after sailing on J80 Cafe Latte.

14.01.2022 Keelboat Start Crewing course on J80 Cafe Latte. Sailing off Williamstown with Ewan, Marco, Rosario and Julian with instructor Leigh Brennan-Smith of Royal Melbourne Sail Training Academy.

13.01.2022 Just a quick update from Leigh at the Royal Melbourne Sail Training Academy. With sail training postponed indefinitely boat maintenance is in full swing whilst our yard is still open. Here is J24 Keelboat "Double Exposure" having its deck painted after being relaunched from RMYS on Friday. The gritty deckpaint we use is essential to stay onboard, but hard to apply as it is gunky (technical term) and readily clogs brushed and rollers. Lucky it's a once in 5 year job.... We had a good January to mid- March sailing period with lots of classes until about the 15 th March, when social distancing came in force for Covid -19. Schools (one of larger customer groups) have also closed early for the Easter holidays. Holiday programs for childten and youth, whilst needed by parents who work, have also been postponed. With luck we may get through this by Spring 2020. My thanks to my instructors and staff (who number over 10) for their support this year and wish them all the best through these tough times. Our small business will bounce back. To our customers, friends and families lets look forward to better times ahead. Please stay safe and healthy. Sailing is not over, it's just hibernating!

13.01.2022 Maintenance.One advantage of "not" sail training is to finalise those ongoing maintenance tasks. Our Columbia 27 "Via Mia" circa 1978 and Melbourne made is up in the RMYS yard at the moment. In today's rainy weather in my shed I was able to start to repair the two wooden lazarette covers. For those not in the know a "lazarette" is a locker at the back of a boat traditionally used for storing boating gear belonging to the boatswain on a sailing vessel.The C27 has two man sized... lazarette accessed from the cockpit. I say "man size because you can get into them and repair the motor from the side if necessary. My repair of the rotten wooden cover edges (as shown the photo) was achieved with two new hardwood strips glued with epoxy and screwed in place. To finish I will use a timber preserver on the bare wood, then an epoxy barrier coat followed by undercoating and two top coats.All International Paints. I am doing similar repairs to the companionway entry hatches (also wooden) to prolong their service. These repairs will last many years and whilst ongoing, are part of the joy of owning a boat particularly as I am more of a carpenter than electrician.Lucky most of the boat is GRP which is low maintenance. More photos when I finish. See more

11.01.2022 Mast maintenance Columbia 27 "Via Mia". Just few photos showing our progress re-rigging and maintaining the mast. Removal via mast crane @ RBYC (many thanks), new aluminium spreaders required due to corrosion and rebedding of the SS mast fitting with rivets and Duralac anti - corrosion paste. New SS rigging wire, plus new lights and instruments will finish the project off. Mast back up within 2 weeks.

10.01.2022 From keen yard observer. More like "Le Pink Poodle" than a Red Dog! Major paint job on Don' s yacht in the yard - undercoat phase only.Stay safe!

09.01.2022 Keelboat lessons @ RMYS, St.Kilda start again Sat 4 th July. After a long hibernation, we have 4 new fully booked Start Crewing courses starting next weekend abiding by social distancing and Covid - 19 regs. More keelboat courses planned from now on. See our website www.rmys.com.au or call Leigh for more details.

09.01.2022 Tackers holiday program Monday 13 the January. A fantastic group of young adventure sailors at ROYAL MELBOURNE SAIL TRAINING ACADEMY St.Kilda. Lots of fun and energy with bookings open for Term 1 2020 Sunday mornings starting 2nd Feb.

06.01.2022 Keelboat Start Crewing course Sat 11 th Jan 2020. A happy bunch of new sailors at ROYAL MELBOURNE SAIL TRAINING ACADEMY at RMYS St.Kilda.

01.01.2022 Graduating keelboat class of 22 December 2019. Paul, Robert, Emily and Steve with wind blown Leigh & J80 yacht "Cafe Latte".