Western Australian Yachting Foundation

Swan River Sailing

The Western Australian Yachting Foundation Inc. (WAYF) was established in 1988 in the wake of the America's Cup Challenge in Fremantle with the aim of promoting Perth, Western Australia as a world acclaimed yachting venue.

After two decades in the yachting business, the Foundation has grown from strength to strength, now attracting top corporate companies from around the globe for their Swan River Sailing events.

Whilst building and maintaining a core corporate clientele, the Foundation has developed many sailing and youth match racing events.

Founded to help promote and develop youth sailing, the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta was established in late 2002 in memory of the late Warren Jones, an Australian sailing legend and has become a very success annual event. Hosted by Royal Perth Yacht Club on odd years and Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club on even years, the event's success included the recent promotion of the 2009 event to an official World Match Racing Tour Qualifier Event and as such, is recognised as the World's best youth match racing event.

Operating from the grounds of the prestigious Royal Perth Yacht Club, the Foundation is ideally located on the shored of the beautiful Matilda Bay, just 8 minutesfrom Perth's CBD.

The WA Yachting Foundation offers corporate regatta and team building, training for community groups, liesure sailing and twilight races on their fleet of Peter Milner built Foundation 36 yachts. The sailing outings are designed to cater for all levels of sailing experience.

The success of the Foundation over the years has led to their upgrade, expansion and recent replacement of their fleet of yachts. They currently have 12 Foundation 36 yachts and can cater for groups of over 200 people at any one time.