Raffles Marina hosts a vibrant and exciting race program that alternates between three types of racing, which offers races approximately each fortnight. Racing in the waters surrounding Raffles Marina offers numerable advantages, including:

• An ideal site to enjoy the South West monsoon season winds, as well as consistent winds in the North East season as well.
• Sailing waters unencumbered by the notoriously heavy traffic of the World’s busiest port – RM is sited well away from the main traffic areas
• Superb facilities to sail from – from perhaps the best marina and club facilities in Singapore, up sail at the marina entrance, and you’re sailing!
• Geographically ideal for setting windward/leeward and passage courses.

Fun Races
Open to all sailing boats, with Portsmouth Yardstick (PY) ratings applied by the Race Committee to participating boats. While still competitive, the spirit of the fun races is captured in our slogan – ‘We Race for Fun’. As such, the format and makeup of the Fun Races can vary greatly, with traditional ‘round the can’ racing, or pursuit racing starting from the pub!

In late 2006, new participation records were set at 21 boats racing, which is certainly a club record, and is believed to be a record for club racing in Singapore.


International Racing Certificate (IRC) Racing
Open to all boats with valid IRC certificates, the IRC racing program is for those that wish to take it to the next level of competition. Boats racing range from 20’ to 50’+, with an interesting mixture of windward/leeward and passage races run by the marina Race Officers.

One Design Racing
Raffles Marina is home-base for the Singapore Laser Sb3 Fleet, an ever growing fleet of the largest production type Laser keelboat at 20’. At 10 boats in December 2006, this one design class is generating large amounts of interest in Singapore as well as around the World. Raffles Marina runs a One Design Race series for these Sb3s, as well other one design fleets in Singapore.


Crew
Supporting an ever growing race fleet requires a significant crew pool for skippers and boat owners. If you have a large amount of racing experience behind you from Singapore or overseas, or have some experience and are keen to learn, please post a brief summary of your experience and contacts in the form below.

If you don’t have any experience in sailing or racing, it would be helpful to undergo the Competent Crew (or Keel Boat 1) course to provide the basic skills to be a useful member aboard a sailing boat.

Please click here for a list of courses for more information.