page_title: Sport in Cardiff
section_title: Sailing
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Cardiff / Individual sports / Sailing
caption_attribution_description: English: Sailing Tuition taking place at Llanishen Sailing Centre
context_page_description: Sport in Cardiff is dictated by, amongst other things, its position as the capital city of Wales, meaning that national home sporting fixtures are nearly always played in the city. All of Wales' multi-sports agencies and many of the country's sports governing bodies have their headquarters in Cardiff and the city's many top-quality venues have attracted world-famous sport events, sometimes unrelated to Cardiff or to Wales.
  The city hosts numerous international sporting events, be it independently or on behalf of Wales or the United Kingdom. Rugby fans around the world have long been familiar with the Cardiff Arms Park and its successor the Millennium Stadium, a visible presence from in and around the city. Early this century, hundreds of thousands of English football and rugby league supporters visited Cardiff during the six years it took to rebuild Wembley Stadium, as the FA Cup and Rugby League Challenge Cup finals were played at the Millennium Stadium. In 2009, Cardiff hosted the first Ashes cricket test, between England and Australia, to be held in Wales.
context_section_description: Cardiff has a long history of sailing, with the city host to two Yacht Clubs:
  Cardiff Bay Yacht Club (CBYC) (founded 1932) was founded as Penarth Motor Boat and Sailing Club, but changed to Cardiff Bay Yacht Club in 1999. The club sits within Cardiff's International Sports Village and boats an extensive pontoon system, moorings and two slipways. Activities include yacht racing, yacht cruising, dinghy sailing, dinghy racing and fishing, CBYC is also an RYA training centre for powerboating and sailing courses offering various courses in powerboating and dinghy sailing inc race training in optimists and toppers up to double hander advanced dinghies, which are very popular and reasonably priced to enable you to learn to sail and drive powerboats, and is one of the largest yacht clubs in the country.
  Cardiff Yacht Club (CYC) (founded 1900) has a clubhouse in Butetown, Cardiff Bay, complete with moorings, a pontoon system and a slipway,
  Royal Yachting Association recognised sail training is provided by a number of providers in Cardiff, with Cardiff Sailing Centre, a local authority run facility being the main provider, who have been providing RYA sail training in Cardiff since 1974. CBYC offer tuition to both club members & the public.
  Cardiff also hosts a number of national and international sailing events, from youth championships and BUCS fleet championships to the Extreme Sailing Series since 2012 and the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race.
caption: Tuition at Cardiff Sailing Centre
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