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13 - 18 May 2012 Royal Cornwall Yacht Club

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The Royal Cornwall Yacht Club (Organising Authority RCYC Events Ltd)

The Royal Cornwall Yacht Club was formed in 1871, and is the 15th oldest “Royal” yacht club in England. The founder members included a survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, and the first patrons of the Club were Queen Victoria and the Duke of Cornwall (the future King Edward VII). The current patron of the Club is HRH Prince Charles who succeeded his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1977.

Since 1880 the Club has been located in an idyllic waterfront setting in the Greenbank area of the town.

Falmouth has long been a venue for major regattas, and organising them has been an important part of the Club’s activities since before the Second World War.

Large yachts of the J-Class visited in the 1930s, and the Club is looking forward to welcoming them back in 2012.

The International Fourteens visited in 1934 and again in 1938 when Sir Peter Scott and John Winter won the Prince of Wales Cup, aided by the first use of the trapeze in a championship event. Their winning boat, Thunder and Lightning, is now on display in Falmouth in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. The class promptly banned the trapeze and it was not until 1968, again at Falmouth, that the trapeze was allowed. The Fourteens and other prominent classes such as the National Twelve and the Merlin Rocket were regular visitors until commercial redevelopment of the waterfront precluded routine berthing of large fleets of dinghies.

However, every cloud has a silver lining, and redevelopment in the form of marinas paved the way for keelboat events. In 1995, 2000 and 2009 the Club organised the International Dragon Edinburgh Cup (British National Championship), and in 2004 the Gold Cup (World Championship). Other major events held at the Club include the Quarter Ton World Championship, J80 World Championship, International Six Metre European Championship, and the British National Championships of the Six Metre, J/24, J/80 and SB3.

Every fourth year since 1975 the Club has organised the AZAB Ocean Yacht Race, a short-handed race to the Azores and back – a distance of some 2,500 nm.

In 2011 the Club set up a limited company to manage major competitive events.