North West Radio Yacht Club

North West Radio Yacht Club RC Yacht Racing North West Radio Yacht Club is based around the Devonport area on the North West Coast of Tasmania.

We sail primarily "A" Class Yachts (the largest class), however on club days anything with a sail will do! Our members love to have a good laugh (especially at each other) and club race days are a pretty relaxed affair. Currently we use two different venues: WInspears Dam - there are two dams here suitable in different conditions. They are located on Winspears Road, East Devonport. Robinsons Dam is on the Bass Hwy at Lillico (Don Hill) and is approx 250 metres east of the railway overpass. Visitors are most welcome and there is always a boat to give a go! Come out anytime, check the roster on the wall.

Today the North West Radio Yacht Club members returned to the Penguin Rd Dam, to host the Leven Yacht Club in an introdu...
19/07/2026

Today the North West Radio Yacht Club members returned to the Penguin Rd Dam, to host the Leven Yacht Club in an introductory day to Radio Controlled sailing.
Member of both clubs Colin Tunn organised the joint event, with the decision to sail one of the most popular new RC classes, the Dragon Force 65's.
The 7 club members attending were able to gather 12 well presented 65's for the day, which allowed for just about everyone to start in a series of scratch races, Colin flew the drone for some great photos and action video , and some well received coaching advice.
We had 11 yachts racing with coaching from the bank to start with, then some handicapped races with the LYC heading off and the NW crew trying to chase them down..
Their sailing knowledge was on point, and plenty of technical ??'s asked, and once the conversion of changing from a tiller to a thumb toggle, and standing on a bank, not actually sitting on the boat was achieved the LYC members acquitted themselves extremely well. After a short lunch adjournment, a couple more sailors arrived, and we engaged in an afternoon of handicap( or pursuit) races. With a good light breeze holding all day, all boats were rigged with the A rig to show how they sail straight out of the box. We had a fleet consisting of a V2 through to a couple of V6's, and all were very even.
There were plenty of laughs, big smiles and great banter between everyone, with plenty of ribbing if one ended in a tangle or in the reads.
Huge thanks to all NW club members who were able to attend and assist in a great fun day, we hope the LYC members had a great memorable experience also... Hopefully another event in the future, or a visit to one of our race days is on the cards.

2025 DF65 Tasmanian state champs. Day 1.. A fleet of 15 DF65's hit the start line right on scheduled, unfortunately the...
06/09/2025

2025 DF65 Tasmanian state champs. Day 1..
A fleet of 15 DF65's hit the start line right on scheduled, unfortunately the early southerly was just starting to drop out and shift to the forecast Northerly, which meant the first 3 races had some unpredictable light fluky shifts, Catching everyone at some time on the wrong side of the course.
By race 4 the wind had all but disappeared and lunch was called after with the hope the sea breeze would fill in. Thankfully it did. So good racing prevailed. 14 races were completed for the day, with 8 different skippers saluting at the line. Many thanks to our RO John Pearse( Devonport Boat N Tackle ) and his helpers today , as many course buoys were needed to be shifted throughout, and thanks to Peter Haworth for his assistance all day. Lisa Blackwood has a slight overnight lead over Richard Fisher , Stu Dawes and Wayne Behrens . The score sheet has been posted for everyone to see how they went, and some photos from Peter.
See you all back tomorrow for day 2...

A few photos from our IOM Club Championship round on 1st June at Brookfield dam, Thirlstane in NW Tasmania. A good field...
01/06/2025

A few photos from our IOM Club Championship round on 1st June at Brookfield dam, Thirlstane in NW Tasmania. A good field of 11 IOMs faced some VERY light wind but all good fun...

13/02/2022

The first hit out for the year certainly put a few of us rusty crews to the test. A good strength breeze, but from the NE which caused directional deviations through the trees. A couple of sailers didn't seem to have many difficulties, Andy Hamilton with his RG65 flyer, and returning member Geoff Wiseman DF95 showed us up, both consistent results . The day was sailed under handicapped starts as we had different classes sailing together. Colin Hills took awhile to dial in the RG65, even changing to a DF65 for a few races, but got up to pace when brining back the RG, Nigel Cropp showed both Jack Russell and myself around the course in the DF65's, Nigel and I switched to 95's after lunch, but neither of us could catch Geoff, who showed that a year off hasn't slowed him at all. A failed rudder servo ended my day early, but overall craft and skippers all behaved well for the day.
Not only did Jack bring his big camera, he also bought along a recent Marblehead purchase which looked fast, and will be very hard to keep up with in the all classes days.
Thanks for a good day on the water fella's.
Next sail 27/2/22 @ Winspear's.

15/09/2020

NWRYC held the 2020 Tasmanian A Class Championships recently. Ten entries from around the state, Two days of very contrasting conditions. Day 1, little to no wind, racing abandoned after 3 races. Day 2, racing started with 6knts, building to 15-18knts with significant big gusts^ 22knts. The fleet was reduced after race 13 to 5 yachts, who bravely continued on for 5 more challenging races with one more DNF in the last. Congratulations to all , on your conduct over the weekend, and to those who assisted in the event.

NWRYC held the 2020 Tasmanian A Class Championships recently. Ten entries from around the state, Two days of very contra...
15/09/2020

NWRYC held the 2020 Tasmanian A Class Championships recently. Ten entries from around the state, Two days of very contrasting conditions. Day 1, little to no wind, racing abandoned after 3 races. Day 2, racing started with 6knts, building to 15-18knts with significant big gusts^ 22knts. The fleet was reduced after race 13 to 5 yachts, who bravely continued on for 5 more challenging races with one more DNF in the last. Congratulations to all , on your conduct over the weekend, and to those who assisted in the event.

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