Black Rock Yacht Club

The Black Rock Yacht Club is a yacht club for off-the-beach sailing boats at Black Rock on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club was founded in 1904, mostly accommodates dinghies and has a history of nurturing Olympic, world and Australian champions. Classes sailed there include International 14, OK, Sabre, 420, Moth, Sabot, Optimist, RS Aero and the Australian Lightweight Sharpie. In 1926 the nineteenth-century warship HMVS Cerberus was scuttled to form a breakwater in front of the club, which makes launching easy in most winds. The club has hosted the Moth World Championship, the 470 World Championships in 1999, the Finn Gold Cup twice and the RS Aero Worlds.