Club Sailing

Up to 2003, Volunteer, the yacht of the RNVR Yacht Club, provided sailing opportunities for non-yacht owning members. However, owing to an increasing level of ownership of yachts by Club members, her usage has fallen to the extent that it is not viable to continue with Club ownership of a yacht. Accordingly, Volunteer will not be replaced until such time that a suitably sound case is established for the Club to revert to yacht ownership. In the meantime, the Club's resources for Club Sailing will be directed towards yacht charters for Club events and to organised Club sailing weekends. Such weekends will be arranged so that yacht owning members could make their yachts available to other members to gain crewing opportunities. Dates and details of the Club Sailing weekends will be announced in due course.

To facilitate yacht owning Club members inviting crew from within the Club, a "Crew Register" section is included in the Members' Area of this website. Club Members, who wish it be known that they are available as crew for Club Sailing or any other sailing activities, are encouraged to contact Martin Alexander to have their details included in this "Crew Register"

Also, Members are encouraged to make use of Impian , a very well-equipped Bavaria 38 new in 2004, which is operated commercially by our Commodore Jeremy Donne.

Impian is berthed at Mercury Yacht Harbour on the Hamble River. She is available for charter by suitably qualified members* of the RNVR YC or any member provided they can provide a qualified skipper*. She is MCA coded and insured for bare boat charter and is equipped to a very high specification including radar. (*Insurers require the owner to ensure that skippers are of RYA Coastal Skipper standard and competent to act as master of the yacht)

Impian availability:- See the Impian booking chart in the Members Area of this website or contact Jeremy Donne (Contact details are in the Member's Area of this website)

Private sailing fees for Impian, including VAT, are below: These fees are as printed in the RNVR Yacht Club member's Blue Book:

Month		Weekday  £/day	Weekend  £/2days
Apr, Oct, Nov		120	290
May to September		175	400
Less discount of 5% for 5/6 days, 10% for 7 days or more
Note that all fuel, gas, berthing and mooring fees are to be paid by the user
Impian Sloop Rig Fin Keel 7000kg Displacement 12.30M LOA 10.25M LWL 3.87M Beam 1.70M Draught 6 Berths in 3 cabins Volvo 29 hp saildrive Built 2003 (commissioned 2004) Sail No GBR 8588T SSR 109494 ICS MDYW5