Port Navas Yacht Club is a friendly members club that welcomes visitors.
Founded in 1958, the Club is part of the picturesque village of Port Navas, set on the beautiful Helford River. From the Club you have access onto The Helford river and out into Falmouth Bay. Or you can go inland down the river to Gweek passing ancient oak forests on the way – but make sure you get the tides right.
We have 34 Pontoon berths, 12 Trot moorings, 7 Swing moorings, 27 beach moorings and racks for small dinghies. For more information on moorings, including prices, see MOORINGS section. Parking is, we are afraid, limited. Where possible, or when the car park is full, please could you park in the village and walk along the charming river front – it’s a three minute walk and good for you!
Visiting boats can use the pontoon, the shower and loos – see VISITORS section. All boat owners are members and we have a very loyal section of Social Members who, at £25 a year, help us to run the Club – see MEMBERS section.
PNYC is managed by Tom and Antonia (Ant) Ellemann.
PNYC is proud to be Patron of Clean Ocean Sailing.
The hours for the bar and restaurant during winter are Thursday to Saturday from 4 pm for drinks and bar food. The dinner menu kicks off at 6 pm.
We then resume normal hours for the rest of January and look forward to welcoming you to the bar and restaurant!
Seasons greetings! Melissa, Sarah and the PNYC team
Reservations: book@pnyc.co.uk or leave a message on 01326 340065
Ant, Martha, Nancy, Finn and I hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas and here’s to 2025 on The Helford.
Melissa and Sarah hosted a wonderful mulled wine and community carol singing event.
Apologies that Ant and I were not there as we were involved in complicated present deliveries in Winchester and child collection duties (Martha) at Heathrow.
We had a full turn-out for our last PNYC Quiz Night raising money for the PN Regatta. Sarah served up fab pizzas. Fran Ford’s Team, including Ant and Nancy, embarrassingly won the quiz. Embarrassing because half the winning team were related to the question master – ie me!
I will be sending out mooring forms for Summer 2025 in the next week or so. Your mooring is automatically yours again for Summer 2025. If you had a mooring and know that you DON’T want it next year, please could you let me know as we have a waiting list. We have decided not to increase the mooring fees for 2025 with the sole exception of beach moorings for boats over 10ft. These are going up to £32 a foot to keep them more in line with trot moorings.
The membership remains the same for 2025. Apologies again for last year’s poor management of memberships. I will be sorting out memberships for 2025 within the next two weeks. Members living in Cornwall will get a confirmation email from us and can then collect their 2025 cards from Melissa at the club. We will post cards to members living over The Tamar.We so value all our Social Members who each make a contribution of £25 to the club even though they don’t have a boat. All the membership contributions go towards maintaining and improving the club.To become a member please go to https://pnyc.co.uk/members/ and follow the instructions.
The campaign to rival the Christmas lights of Mousehole has taken a step forward this year thanks to Roger, Iain and Anna. Their boats are fabulously lit. Unfortunately Faith is not on her mooring at the moment so we couldn’t add lights to her. Instead we have provided a rather gaudy (Melissa’s word) deer. We will improve things for next year.
The club hosted the first ever Black Tie (mostly) Trengilly Bridge Club Christmas Dinner just before Christmas. Lots of festive drinks were downed followed by some very vocal – slightly cheaty – bridge. Thanks from all of us to Sarah and Melissa for hosting us. The perfect venue for any club, office or private do!
I have been really poor about sorting out the Membership Cards and doing more regular newsletters. I am afraid that we got some unfortunate family news in March and the thing that has “given” are these two tasks. My sincere apologies. We value every Member and their contribution to the club and its ongoing upkeep and improvement. I asked for some help with managing this in a previous newsletter and very kindly Cath Gradwell has volunteered to help. Hopefully this will make for smoother running of the membership. I have a stack of undelivered membership cards on my desk for which I am truly sorry. Tom
The Summer Season, such as it has been, is almost ending – 31st October.
We have spaces for this Winter on the beach or on a trot (£22.75 a foot) and on the pontoon (£36.75 per foot with no minimum size limit). Just contact Tom.
Please can those NOT staying for the Winter, make sure that their boats are off to their Winter berths before or by Thursday 31st October. Boats that aren’t moved will be charged a weekly charge.
If you already know that you want the same Summer Mooring for 2025 then I would be most grateful if you could let us know now. Equally, if you know you DON’T WANT your mooring next Summer that would be good to know as we have a waiting list.
Prices for Moorings and Membership will remain the same next year except for Beach Moorings for boats over 10ft. These will increase to £32 per foot to make them more in-line with trot and swing moorings.
The Helford Regattas have kindly been allowed to “take over” the maintenance of the Children’s Sailing Trust’s five Regatta rowing dinghies. They have been living outside for a number of years and haven’t really been used. Three of The Helford Regattas would like to use these boats each year for the benefit of locals and visitors. We have sourced an inside storage space for them in Port Navas for the immediate future and they are currently drying out. The next step is to review the boats, decide on what to do and to get a small team of volunteers to work on them (we have a few volunteers already and happy to have more – email Tom at admin@pnyc.co.uk). What we are really looking for is a Project Manager who is happy to co-ordinate (and not necessarily actually do the physical work) the restoration project. Is there anyone out there that would be interested? Email Tom at admin@pnyc.co.uk
Two gaff cutters owned by PNYC members have been successful in two Classic sailing events during the summer. “Mary Ritchie” owned by Don and Pauline Garman was first in class at Falmouth Classics in June, including the Saturday Teamac race, whilst Susan J, a Heard 28 owned by David and Julie Patuck, was placed third. The wind was blowing force 5- 6 for both race days and race two was abandoned owing to a 40 knot squall. Fowey Classics followed in early August and this time Susan J was first with Mary Ritchie second. Both vessels, having raced in two of three classics sailing events in the south west, are eligible for places in the West Country Classic Series. Places will be revealed at Saltash Sailing Club in November.
The top two outside picnic tables have been “levelled” – so now while EVERYTHING looks mis-aligned – floor, tables, wall, roof – at least your glass of wine won’t fall over. And a cage has been put around the gas bottles to make us super-douper compliant. Metal sides and a roof are to be added.
