Welcome to this section of our website.

"The object for which the Club is formed is to encourage all forms of yachting, sailing, motor boating and fishing and to provide good fellowship"

To give you some background information about our Club:

Penarth Motor Boat and Sailing Club was formed in 1932 and in 1999 changed its name to Cardiff Bay Yacht Club t/as Penarth Motor Boat and Sailing Club.

Our memberships are made up of families, couples and individuals all of whom have a common aim and that is to enjoy themselves both on and off the water in a wide selection of boats ranging from cruisers, fishing boats, motor boats and dinghies.

The Club offers its members a wide range of facilities both nautical and social, and has extensive mooring rights for 500 boats on the River Ely with a fully piled pontoon system i.e. 400 pontoon berths and 100 river moorings. We also offer limited dinghy storage on shore and have adopted a “Use it or Lose it” policy to ensure that our limited storage space is allocated to members who use their boats regularly whether it be for racing or purely recreational. Consideration in allocating space is also given to the type of dinghy used; Optimists, Lasers, Dart 15s, Classic Flying Fifteens and Laser 2000s being among the preferred boats of the Dinghy Section.

If you are interested in joining the Club our application form can be printed off this website. However, if you would like some more information before completing the form then please do not hesitate to contact me on either 029 2051 4915, 07974 561514 or you can e mail me at jh@janie.f9.co.uk

Once you have printed off and filled in your application form to join Cardiff Bay Yacht Club you will need to send it in to the Club’s administration office, together with the appropriate joining fee. Applications for Junior Membership should be made on a separate application form.

Once received, your name will be published, for a period of two weeks, on our notice board for all members to read and it is at this stage that if anyone has an objection they will notify me.

During this two week period your application will be passed on to me, when I will contact you to arrange a mutually convenient time, usually in the evening, to meet at the Club for an informal discussion to answer any questions you may have regarding your application. Sometimes the interview process can take up to four weeks, depending upon the number of applicants waiting to be interviewed so please be patient I will contact you as soon as I can.

It is my responsibility to explain how the Club is run, the role of the Council of Management within the Club, and what is expected of you as a member. It is also important that your level of experience or inexperience on the water is also discussed and if needed, to improve your knowledge of boat handling etc, Courses can be recommended, whether in-house or organised by reputable local organisations. If appropriate, I will then recommend that your application be accepted at the next Council of Management meeting, normally held on the third Monday of every month. If applicable, it is only when your application has been approved by the Council of Management that arrangements can be made with our Marina Manager to bring your boat to the Club. However, at the moment we are operating a waiting list for both pontoon berths and moorings – the criteria to be included on this list is that you have to become a member of Cardiff Bay Yacht Club and already own a boat.

This procedure may seem rather outdated to any prospective new members but we think it important to uphold this long standing tradition, thus ensuring that the groundwork laid down by our founder members, both past and present, continues into the future for our benefit and that of our children.

Regards

Jane Hall

Membership Secretary