The Parramatta River Sailing Club (2005)
The PRSC started life as the River Sailing Club in 1934. In 1950, the Harbour Land and Transport Company donated the land on which the clubhouse now stands. Then, in 1952, the current building was donated by the Australian Gaslight Company.
27 June 1983, the Parramatta River Sailing Club, by then an amalgamation of the River sailing Club and the Parramatta River Yacht Club, was incorporated.
The current membership of sixty people with nineteen registered and twelve active yachts is a mixture of old and new. Some of the members are sons of men who skippered their yachts on the Parramatta River before World War II. To some, the river is their second home, where they learned and honed their skills.
The PRSC has close ties with other sailing clubs on the river this side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There is a spirit of co-operation, support, and camaraderie on the river.
The PRSC is a friendly, unpretentious club with a liquor license, open only on race days and special event days.
During the spring, summer, and autumn we race on Saturdays, and Wednesdays for twilight races.
There are two Divisions, one for small yachts and one for larger yachts, and we start our Saturday races after 13:30, when we hope a good wind will pipe in. We work on a handicap system.
During the winter we race alternate Saturdays only.
On any given race day, our course is determined by the Race Starter using a series of flags, unless we have a Special Trophies Race, which is the only race during which our course takes us down the Harbour. Other times we traverse the river from Putney to Hunters Hill, on the other side of the Gladesville Bridge.
After the Saturday races, we congregate back at our clubhouse for a beer or two, the race results, a debriefing, club announcements, and most importantly, a ribbing and a roasting of rival yachts, skippers, and crew.
We are competitive without being untrustworthy, and celebrate good skippering, wilyness, skill, and strategy.
The PRSC started life as the River Sailing Club in 1934. In 1950, the Harbour Land and Transport Company donated the land on which the clubhouse now stands. Then, in 1952, the current building was donated by the Australian Gaslight Company.
27 June 1983, the Parramatta River Sailing Club, by then an amalgamation of the River sailing Club and the Parramatta River Yacht Club, was incorporated.
The current membership of sixty people with nineteen registered and twelve active yachts is a mixture of old and new. Some of the members are sons of men who skippered their yachts on the Parramatta River before World War II. To some, the river is their second home, where they learned and honed their skills.
The PRSC has close ties with other sailing clubs on the river this side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There is a spirit of co-operation, support, and camaraderie on the river.
The PRSC is a friendly, unpretentious club with a liquor license, open only on race days and special event days.
During the spring, summer, and autumn we race on Saturdays, and Wednesdays for twilight races.
There are two Divisions, one for small yachts and one for larger yachts, and we start our Saturday races after 13:30, when we hope a good wind will pipe in. We work on a handicap system.
During the winter we race alternate Saturdays only.
On any given race day, our course is determined by the Race Starter using a series of flags, unless we have a Special Trophies Race, which is the only race during which our course takes us down the Harbour. Other times we traverse the river from Putney to Hunters Hill, on the other side of the Gladesville Bridge.
After the Saturday races, we congregate back at our clubhouse for a beer or two, the race results, a debriefing, club announcements, and most importantly, a ribbing and a roasting of rival yachts, skippers, and crew.
We are competitive without being untrustworthy, and celebrate good skippering, wilyness, skill, and strategy.