Royal Brighton Yacht Club
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The Royal Brighton Yacht Club (founded in 1875) is located at Brighton, Victoria
, Australia, on Port Phillip
at Lat:37° 54.58`S – Long: 144° 59. 15` E.
Prominent Members:
Brighton, Victoria
Brighton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651...
, Australia, on Port Phillip
Port Phillip
Port Phillip Port Phillip Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay, is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne. Geographically, the bay covers and the shore stretches roughly . Although it is extremely shallow for...
at Lat:37° 54.58`S – Long: 144° 59. 15` E.
Prominent Members:
- John Bertrand - Skipper of the victorious Australia II in the 1983 America's Cup
- Mark TurnbullMark TurnbullMark Turnbull is an Australian sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 Class with Tom King at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He went to St. Leonard's College in Brighton East, Victoria.-References:...
- Australian Gold Medalist in the Sydney 2000 Olympics (Double-Handed Dinghy 470470 (dinghy)The 470 is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. The name is the overall length of the boat in centimetres . The hull is fibreglass with integral buoyancy tanks. The 470 is equipped with spinnaker and trapeze, making teamwork necessary to...
class) - Sarah BlanckSarah BlanckSarah Blanck is an Australian sailor .In 2002 she won the Olympic class Europe World Championships.Blanck won the ISAF Youth World Championship in 1995 and the Laser Radial Women's World Championships in 1997...
- Represented Australia in the Athens Olympics in 2004 in the Europe Dinghy one class design