Club Events

This is a family friendly event for HYC members and associated groups, with junior and Learn to Sail fun racing in the morning, and Green Fleet and [ more… ]

HYC organised two successful sailing regattas last week, with the Burgess Trophy interschool sailing regatta on Friday 28th February, and the [ more… ]

Welcome to the 2025 Burgess Trophy at HYC! Registration: 0900-1000hr and Briefing 1000hr Friday 28th February at the HYC Clubrooms. Racing [ more… ]

Optisail 2025  is scheduled for  Monday 13th January to Thursday 16th January  if enough interest is expressed. Monday [ more… ]

See here for a NOR and Entry Form Hamilton Yacht Club Christmas Regatta 2024 14th December 2024 The Organising Authority [ more… ]

Friday 13 Dec is our last Learn To Sail Day for 2024. You are very welcome to join us for our Christmas Regatta on Saturday 14th December.  [ more… ]

HYC 2024-2025 season is well underway and today was not a bad sailing day at all for our first Sprint Series. NW 10kt average, with a fair amount of [ more… ]

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Hamilton Yacht Club Open Day is on Saturday 12th October 11am - 3pm at our Club House on the Lake in Innes Common.  Come along and join [ more… ]

HAMILTON YACHT CLUB INC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday   July 24 th  2024 1930hrs, at HYC Supper at the [ more… ]

Prizegiving Friday 3rd May Nibbles at 6pm Junior Prizes 6:30pm Guest Speaker 6:45pm: Bryan Smith, HYC Patron. Senior Prizes [ more… ]

HYC End of Season Event Fun lighthearted racing in the morning for Learn to Sail groups and more serious racing for more experienced sailor. [ more… ]

Like last year the Waikato Thames Yachting Association chose to run this years Burgess Interschool Regatta at Raglan. The plan was to deliver [ more… ]

Final results HYC hosted an excellent regatta over the weekend, the westerlies arrived, the rain petered out, the food was plentiful, and the [ more… ]

Burnsco HYC Regatta SI

Forecast looks encouraging. Wind from the morning both days. WSW Saturday, NW Sunday. Some cloud cover both days with a chance of rain, especially [ more… ]

Please use the link below to enter the regatta. You will still be able to enter at the clubhouse on the day of the regatta, but entering online will [ more… ]

Because of the clash with the Tauranga Regatta racing will be Points Races (2 races) this weekend rather than the scheduled Mark Foy race. We will [ more… ]

Welcome to the HYC Burnsco Centreboard Regatta 2024 at Hamilton Yacht Club on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd March. The club will be open for [ more… ]

Apologies for the short notice change to our sailing programme. This Saturday there will be a paddling regatta running all day on the lake. The [ more… ]

HYC Christmas Regatta is on Saturday the 16th of December 2023 . Registration is open from 9am for senior sailors all dinghy classes welcome. [ more… ]

Tomorrow, 9th Decemember we have 3 scheduled races. This will be the A Series in a day, with two of the races also scheduled as Club Champs races. [ more… ]

Time to get back in the habit of going for a sail on Wednesday evening. The wind is forecast to be 5-7kt from SW so not too taxing for those out of [ more… ]

Reconfigured sailing calendar will have Sprint Races this weekend on Saturday. Although the cyanobacteria (algal bloom) problem hasn't [ more… ]

Sadly the Lake Rotoroa remains closed due to high blue green algal counts. We will update the website as more information comes to hand. For the [ more… ]

Time to blow off the dust and clear off the cobwebs for the 2023/2024 season! Please come and give a hand to help us get the club ready for the [ more… ]

A further reminder about our AGM next week. See previous News item for details. You can find the minutes of last year's meeting here; 2022 AGM [ more… ]

HAMILTON YACHT CLUB INC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY   June 20 th  2023 1930hrs, at HYC Supper at the conclusion [ more… ]

Wednesday evening 1st March looks to be a pleasant introduction to autumn sailing 2023. Forecast is for 6kt W or WSW and an absence of rain. Nothing [ more… ]

Looks like it will be an nice evening sail tomorrow. WSW 8kt average wind. Lake water level remains very good. Everyones back in town after [ more… ]

Announcing the 2023 HYC Burnsco Centreboard Regatta on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of March. Open to all monohull centreboard dinghies under 4.5m. [ more… ]

The next Waikato Yacht Squadron Nog-n-Natter is at HYC on Tuesday, February 28th. Daniel Fong, sail designer with Doyles and a TP52 series sailor, [ more… ]

Due to the heavy rain washing debris, and bacteria from paddocks or sewerage into waterways the Public Health authority sent out a red alert [ more… ]

When: Feb 11-12th Where: Raglan Sailing Club, 95 Lorenzen Bay Road, Raglan, Waikato REGISTER NOW Boats available for hire from RSC: 6 [ more… ]

The Tauranga Radio Sailing Club is trying to revive model yachting on Hamilton Lake, which has all but disappeared. All the older Hamilton club [ more… ]

The HYC Starling fleet has had a successful start to the season. We took our four more experienced Starling sailors to Taupo for the second in the [ more… ]

Believe or not, tomorrow evening should be on for a decent race. The wind will be about 20km/hr from the West, and the rain should have disappeared [ more… ]

Some hardy souls took on the forecast and sailed the first day of the A Series. We had sun, we had rain, we had calm, we had wind. We had [ more… ]

There were some tight battles in the Lasers, Laser radials, and Starlings during the opening points races on the 1 st of October. Despite the [ more… ]

HAMILTON YACHT CLUB INC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TUESDAY   June 21 st 2022 1930hrs, at HYC Supper at the conclusion of [ more… ]

The summer season is winding down, but there are some formalites to attend too and the Winter Series to kick off!   Prizegiving, Saturday [ more… ]

Closing Regatta results Maybe the biggest battle of the day was between two light winds, a gentle morning sou'easter competing with an even more [ more… ]

Our final regatta for the year will be Saturday April 9th. Here is the  NOR Registration between 0900 - 1000, Briefing 1015, aiming for [ more… ]

Follow the link below to the see a pdf of the C Series results. C Series 2021-2012 The 3 weekends of the C Series produced a good mixture [ more… ]

Just about got the hang of this website news article system now. Click on the link below for the regatta results. The other link is to a file [ more… ]

Apologies for not getting the results up last night. I am struggling with technology. The HYC Burnsco Regatta concluded on Sunday with the sailing [ more… ]

45 sailors, 39 boats, 13 schools represented. Not a bad turn out for these interesting times we live in. The wind let us down. A fitful [ more… ]

Here are the details for the upcoming Burnsco Hamilton Regatta! NOR Entry Form

With New Zealand recently going into the red level there will be some minor changes in the way Hamilton Yacht Club (HYC) operates. Coaching, [ more… ]

Scheduled for Saturday 18th December. The Christmas Regatta is fast approaching so the details are attached in the links below. Note we [ more… ]

By uploading your Vaccine Pass to Friendly Manager, we can easily keep track of your vaccination status for faster sign-in. Log in to your [ more… ]

The risk of Covid 19 spread is greatest in crowded indoor environments, making sailing at HYC generally “safe”, except where we [ more… ]

Optisail 2021 is scheduled for Sunday 16th January to Wednesday 19th January if enough interest is expressed. Optisail is our annual HYC [ more… ]

Signing in Everyone must sign in using NZ Covid Tracer App and paper sign in sheets (sailors, non-sailors & visitors). Maintain social [ more… ]

Level 2 rules for this week Changing rooms open, other facilities closed. BYO snacks, water bottles, sunscreen and life jackets. [ more… ]

During Alert Level 3 Steps 1 and 2, Hamilton Yacht Club cannot run events such as normal club racing and Learn to Sail activities. Therefore, the [ more… ]

The Spring weather has arrived, but not Spring sailing. It is a bit frustrating sitting out the early part of the sailing season but, with any luck, [ more… ]

We have shifted our web site to a platform run by Friendly Manager, our new club management provider. Still getting used to the rules around adding [ more… ]