Greenwich Yacht Club is one of a small number of organisations invited to visit Tower Lifeboat Station on the 28th March. This is a dress rehearsal before the station is opened to the general public later this year. Who can attend? Although other fundraising for the RNLI takes place at GYC, this invitation is specifically in...
Day: Sunday Briefing: 09:15 Start:10:45 Tides: HW | 11:41 Course: Club House The Baker Challenge Trophy Inaugurated in 2007, the Baker Challenge Trophy commemorates ex-Commodore Richard Baker and his father Graham. It's one of the most entertaining events on the GYC calendar — a chaotic, fun relay race where teamwork (and a good sense of...
Are normal trips too easy for you? Do you still have a few ounces of energy left at the end of a row? Do you feel that it's all about the journey, not the destination? Do you want to hone your skill as a rower, not just make it to lunch break and back? Then...
GYC members welcome new and applying members interested in sailing and rowing. Every Tuesday from 1930, enter the club via the pedestrian entrance next to the main gate at the end of Peartree Way. Ring the bell if closed.
A nice gentle row up Bow Creek to Three Mills studios, home to MasterChef, Big Brother and RuPaul's Drag Race, and where Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Isle of Dogs, and 28 Days Later were filmed. We can't promise you'll see Kanye West or Paloma Faith rehearsing there this time, but there is a...
Come find out how you earn your promotion to the best seat in the boat, from where you can command your minions to row you to anywhere on the Thames! As long as they're happy to, that is. And the tide's going the right way. And isn't so far out we can't launch. And the...
This will be a two-hour session for members who have the VHF/SRC licence - but who need some revision about procedures and operation. The session will be run by Tony Mason (Thames Active) Start time: 1900. Maximum number: 8 Location: Committee Room/ tbc The session is free.
GYC members welcome new and applying members interested in sailing and rowing. Every Tuesday from 1930, enter the club via the pedestrian entrance next to the main gate at the end of Peartree Way. Ring the bell if closed.
One-way race to Erith. Lady helm required North Woolwich HW/LW (Local Time): 13:46 Earliest Start: 11:00
Day: Saturday Briefing: 10:15 Start:11:45 Tides: LW | 13:46 Course: Erith
A medium length row downriver to Crossness, home of perhaps the best-fertilised nature reserve in London. It's a major site for water voles and allegedly has the largest reedbeds in Bexley. I don't know Bexley well so can't tell you how strongly contested a competition that is. Safety Briefing: 12:45 Ropes Off: 13:15 Finish: 17:30...
This event is for members & applying members only. Christine is running a workshop on a Tuesday night every other month, to learning different types of “knots” and learn parts of the boat, on the dates at the top of this poster. Sailors learn many types of nautical knots because different tasks demand different combinations...
