Buffalo River Yacht Club

24/05/2026

24/05/2026

And they off

19/05/2026

Here is your list of entries for this year's Vasco Da Gama Ocean Race for 2026. May they have safe sailing and following seas. See you all at the finish line!

19/05/2026

You want to watch this entry for possible handicap honours.

19/05/2026

This team joined us last week and has already made the newspapers, as well as quite a stir, being an all-ladies team and a mother-daughter pairing. Fair winds.😀😀😀

11/05/2026

Now here is a dark horse if ever we have seen one. Dale and his team are on a J 111 called AWEH. All will be revealed on race day 🤫🤫🤫😮😮.

10/05/2026

BRYC Family, wishing all the mother's out there Happy Mothers day, And to all the dad's doing double duty, Happy mothers day. You all rock. Fair winds to all 🍾🍸🍺🥂🥃🍻⚓️⛵️

05/05/2026

Our first double-handed entry, very sorry for the delayed post.

05/05/2026

One of our new entries.

29/01/2026

“Talking Sailing” From My Archives. The Graduate Dinghy

By Richard Crockett

Today it’s time to share some dinghy news - with the Graduate dinghy appearing in the pages of the March/April issue of SA Yachting magazine.

I personally don’t ever recall having seen a Graduate dinghy, but have a single photo in my archives of one. Maybe an alert old salt will recall these and can tell us more about the local fleet?

The feature, whose author is nameless, said this: “In 1952, Dick Wyche who, with his partner Digby Coppock, had been designing and building racing dinghies in England for many years, was commissioned by the magazine “Light Craft” to design a racing dinghy which, though a thoroughbred, would retail at less than £100 including sails. The result was the “Graduate” which was in fact sold for some years in England at between £90 and £100.

“The Grad is really a hard-chine version of the British National Twelve or the Firefly dinghy. It has the same basic characteristics (other than being chine-built and not round-bilged) and has a similar performance.

“In South Africa, besides the Island Sailing Club (in Durban), there are two or three other Clubs with Grads in their fleet and it is understood that there are a few in the Rhodesia. A Class Association was formed in Durban last year.”

READ MORE HERE: http://sailing.co.za/talking-sailing-from-my-archives-the-graduate-dinghy/