Ballyholme Yacht Club is located on Ballyholme Bay within the town of Bangor, and at the entrance to Belfast Lough.

The location is superb with a sheltered bay allowing safe sailing and racing for the numerous dinghies and “big boats” within the club. As well as regular Sunday racing for dinghies all year and Tuesday evening racing during the summer season, we regularly host a number of other sailing events including Ballyholme Regatta, Sea Bangor, the Optimist Ulsters, Topper Traveller, Laser Masters and Multi-hull Northerns last summer.

Our racing pedigree has provided sailors and officials to the last 5 Olympic Regattas as well as the last Volvo Round the World Race and many international events. We currently have 4 members training for selection to London 2012 in Lasers and 49ers.

Ballyholme is an RYA recognized training centre and offers courses throughout the year to adults and cadets (age 6 and upwards) with sailing  and power boat courses, including Race Officer, mark laying and many others.

We also have a very buoyant cadet membership which last year had Wednesday evening “try sailing” sessions under “Dolphins and Sharks” during May and June, as well as numerous other family events such as the Corinthian Cup and Pirates Raid throughout the summer.

BYC is also home to the North Down BSAC, our very active diving section, who provide training and diving throughout the year with facilities that are “second to none”.

Our Social Committee work hard to provide numerous events throughout the year including the Regatta, Wine tasting, Murder Mystery, Beetle Drive and many others. We also have Sky and Setanta television and followers of Ulster and Irish rugby can find many fellow supporters for the screening of all the matches in the Lounge Bar and also a large projection screen in the Jubilee Room.

Overall, Ballyholme Yacht Club is a family sailing club run by its members encouraging sailing of all types, and diving, to be enjoyed by all. Please navigate your way through our new web-site for more information on the various parts of BYC and upcoming events. For further information, please contact Helen at the club office on 028 9127 1467 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .