Vaucluse Yacht Club Functions & Events - Celebrate that special event on the most beautiful harbour in the world!

Vaucluse Yacht Club's premises are available for functions such as wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate functions and similar events.

The club is situated on the Eastern Shore of Watsons Bay and faces west. It offers wonderful views across Sydney Harbour to the skyline of the city. To be on the club verandah in the late afternoon, with the water of the bay lapping beneath your feet, and watching the sun set behind the city and the skyline light up as night falls, is to be in the perfect location to celebrate that special event.

The clubroom is a single large room of approximately 144 square meters with a verandah of approximately 36 square meters,plus an outside deck area of approximately 45 square metres. The area is completely open with no supporting pillars intruding. In the back corner of the room is a kitchen/bar facility that has just been completely renovated.
It contains a new commercial refrigerator, oven and cook top and provides ample counter space for the preparation and serving of food and drink. A BBQ is available for use on the verandah. Tables and chairs for up to 80-90 people are included at no additional expense. Full separate male and female toilets are located in the boat storage area adjacent to the clubroom..

Wheel Chair access is perfect. There are no steps to the Club.

Unless the hirer can supply their own logistics, large functions normally require the separate hire of a commercial caterer: Who will supply glasses, crockery, cutlery etc, clean and tidy in terms of the function. The cost of hire includes a pre-clean and post cleaning of the Club room and floor area..

NOTE: Hire dates are limited by the Club’s sailing program. All Saturdays and limited Sundays from mid September up to Easter are reserved for sailing and racing activity, as is the last Saturday of the month from April to September each year..

The Club is available for 6 days from Sunday to Friday during the summer, and 7 days during the winter, subject to specific negotiation with the Club’s hirers:  Contact either Peter McNeill ( 0410 448 155) or Rob Green (Home) 9371 1378, or ( 0401 157 562) . Please leave a  message if they are not at home, and they will  call you back..

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Catering & Entertainment

The club does not offer catering facilities, hirers will need to make separate arrangements for food and drink. Hirers may provide music or other entertainment during their function. However the club is located in a residential area where noise can be a problem.

Accordingly any entertainment cannot be overly loud. Hirers may bring extra tables and chairs into the clubhouse along with glassware, crockery, cutlery and the like.

Hirers will also be given access to the premises to set up for the function and may put up any decorations they wish. Hirers will be fully responsible for removing all additional equipment and decorations at the conclusion of the hire..

Restricted Areas

There is an open boat rigging deck and launching ramp adjacent to the verandah. For safety reasons this area is out of bounds to hirers. Access is also prohibited to the dinghy racks and other storage areas in the boat storage area other than as necessary to transit to and from the club house area..

Security & Cleaning

The hirer is responsible for the security of the club's property and dinghies stored on the club premises at all times during the hire. The hirer should make proper arrangements to ensure that no damage occurs.

The hirer will be responsible for the collection of all bottles, cans food scraps and other rubbish. These items should be left in bins located just inside the boat shed door for collection by the council. Entry to the clubhouse is via the doors in Marine Parade and then through the boat storage area to the clubhouse.

The club is adjacent to residential areas and all hirers are requested to ensure that noise is kept to a minimum when entering and, more particularly, when leaving the premises..

Rates

The cost of hire for the Club is negotiable at very reasonable rates per afternoon or evening. Reduced rates apply for club members also.  In addition, a security deposit will be required.

To secure a function, a deposit is required. The remaining club hire charge & security bond is required not less than 10 days prior to the function.

In the event of any damage to the premises or other property of the club or its members, arising from the hire, funds will be withheld from this deposit to rectify that damage. Otherwise the deposit will be returned to the hirer at the conclusion of the function..