Cruising Information
A March 2013 morning on the Myall Lakes – 4 days of TS heaven
The Geelong Trailable Yacht Club Cruising Page
Welcome to our cruising page!
Cruising contact: Paul Graham 0432 248969
What’s new?
Many members have joined our club for cruising or have expressed an interest to go cruising, but have found the dates of the organised cruises haven’t suited them or their family. This is meant that some members miss out and the numbers that join the cruise can be small.
We have all heard members talk about their experience of going cruising through the week or between school holidays, where places like Gippsland lakes are much quieter and perhaps more enjoyable. Many members have noted that they would have liked to have joined in, if they had only known…
Our cruising page aims at facilitating this very thing. Instead of just promoting club organised cruising events, it provides a place for members to announce a cruise that they are planning and the opportunity to join in with them. Having extra boats being part of the cruise increases the fellowship, the knowledge base and of course the safety.
We have a full calendar of cruising events for this year: which includes a new type which we are calling a ‘Tag-a-long’ cruises throughout the year. This is held on the same day as the racing but allows cruisers to follow a similar path to the racers, but at a cruising speed. This will help develop sailing techniques to sail in the points of the compass, become familiar with navigation as well as a great opportunity to test out new gear you may have added to your yacht.
To make sure everyone has the best experience when cruising, this year we are holding a ‘Cruising Workshop’ at St Helens on Saturday February 24th: Cruising Workshop 2024
We are hoping that all members who have any interest in cruising will join us. It will be a great time of sharing, learning and benefiting from the wisdom of experienced cruisers. Also, any trailable yacht owner is welcomed, we can all learn from each other! From here we aim to build a Cruising community to further develop this great way of exploring and experiencing our beautiful country in an unique way.
The other thing that we are keen to offer our members is a cruising knowledge base so that that the first time trip down the Yarra, cruising to Port Arlington or to Westernport Bay, is not so daunting! This is a developing page and so is not exhaustive by any means.
I encourage you to visit this page regularly to see how this page is developing and more importantly using it, so that we all can enjoy fabulous cruising.
(cruising Corio Bay on a still winter’s evening 2013)
