Royal Cape Yacht Club

Founded in 1905, the Royal Cape Yacht Club is one of our Countrys 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 Countrys 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 clubs name was changed in 1914 to the Cape Yacht Club which incorporated the Alfred Rowing Club and shortly...