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Royal Cape Yacht Club

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa • 23 Employees
Hospitality

Founded in 1905, the Royal Cape Yacht Club is one of our Country's most active and long-established yacht clubs with over 3 000 members. Located in the Port of Cape Town, the club is home to a first-class restaurant and a bar, as well as conference and event spaces overlooking an array of yachts, docked metres away.The Club hosts important sailing events including the Country's premier keelboat regattas. The Cape to Rio and South Atlantic Races have been hosted by Royal Cape Yacht Club since inception. Our sailing Academy is actively involved in equipping the next generation of sailing enthusiasts with skills while creating local and international job opportunities.The Club was founded as the Table Bay Yacht Club in 1905 and commenced operation as such in a waterside boatshed located some 50 to 60 metres northward of the foot of Loop Street. Surviving early vicissitudes, the club's name was changed in 1914 to the Cape Yacht Club which incorporated the Alfred Rowing Club and shortly after we received the Royal Charter to become the Royal Cape Yacht Club.It was not until the decade after the 2nd World War (1939 - 1945) that the shell of the present clubhouse came to be erected. It was added to when the local yachting boom, started by the first Trans-Atlantic Race from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro in 1971, took off and changed the Club from a small membership of around 300 to the present figure of some 3 000. Boat accommodation progressed from swing moorings to the marina of today.Membership opportunities are available, affording members with handsome discounts on all activities provided by the Yacht Club. The Club is open to the public on racing days, promotional days, food and wine pairing events and 1st Sundays, when we entertain our restaurant guests with the soothing sounds of local artists.