Sailing club
Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania
Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania (MYCT) is a waterfront yacht club and marina at Lindisfarne on the River Derwent near Hobart. The club operates a floating marina with about 150 berths, offers moorings, dinghy storage, cages and hardstand facilities, and has a slipway/slips for member slipping (two slips; the larger accepts up to 15 tonnes). A fuel wharf supplies diesel and unleaded fuel (stated as available to members and non-members). The clubhouse includes dining and a function room. The site also lists on-site tenants and contractors such as boat brokers, marine services and mooring maintenance contacts.
About
Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania at a glance
Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania (MYCT) is a waterfront yacht club and marina at Lindisfarne on the River Derwent near Hobart. The club operates a floating marina with about 150 berths, offers moorings, dinghy storage, cages and hardstand facilities, and has a slipway/slips for member slipping (two slips; the larger accepts up to 15 tonnes). A fuel wharf supplies diesel and unleaded fuel (stated as available to members and non-members). The clubhouse includes dining and a function room. The site also lists on-site tenants and contractors such as boat brokers, marine services and mooring maintenance contacts.
Service area: Lindisfarne, Hobart / River Derwent, TAS
- Region
- Hobart / River Derwent
- Club type
- Yacht club
- Australian Sailing
- Not listed as affiliated
- Primary classes
- Yacht club
A good club to explore for
- Keelboats and yachts
About Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania
Club founded 1924 at the entrance to Lindisfarne Bay on the Derwent's eastern shore, with a 150-berth floating marina behind a breakwater, fuel wharf (diesel and unleaded), two slipways (larger to 15 tonnes) and the Reflections restaurant.
Sailing waters
Lindisfarne Bay opens on the eastern side of the Derwent immediately north of the Tasman Bridge, so boats coming up the river from Storm Bay pass the entrance before reaching the bridge, with no opening span to negotiate at any hour. The bay shoals in its southern reaches, and the marina sits in the deeper water near the entrance behind its breakwater, sheltered from the westerlies that can make the western shore lumpy on a summer afternoon. Visiting crews find the logistics easy: buses run across the bridge into Hobart's CBD, supermarkets and shops in Lindisfarne village are within walking distance, and permit needs are fewer than in the city marinas. The location also works as a base for exploring both shores. Bellerive Yacht Club in Kangaroo Bay lies just south of the bridge, the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and Derwent Sailing Squadron face the club from Sandy Bay, and the anchorages and beaches of the eastern shore, from Geilston Bay down to Bellerive, are day-sail territory. Upriver, the Derwent continues past the Bowen Bridge towards New Norfolk, while downriver the cruising grounds of Frederick Henry Bay, Norfolk Bay and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel open out. Powerboat race days bring noise and spectacle to the bay between November and April, which some visitors plan to catch and others to avoid. Crews staying over New Year should note that Hobart's race-finish festivities are a short taxi ride across the bridge rather than a walk, a trade-off against the calm and free movement the eastern shore offers.
Club history
The Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania has occupied the entrance to Lindisfarne Bay, on the Derwent's eastern shore just north of the Tasman Bridge, since 1924. It began as a powerboat club and never lost that identity: runabout and offshore powerboat racing, run in conjunction with the national powerboat association, still shapes the summer calendar between November and April, and the club hosted one of Australia's first safety cell inversion test days in 1999. What surprises many visiting yacht crews is how complete the facility has become. Behind its breakwater lies a 150-berth floating marina, one of the largest in the state, complemented by swing moorings, a hardstand, dinghy storage cages, a boat ramp, two slipways and a fuel wharf, while the two-storey clubhouse above it all runs the Reflections restaurant, a daily bar and cafe and a function room with views across the river to the western shore hills. Cruising guides have long singled the club out as one of the few places in Tasmania where a visiting yacht could step straight onto a floating dock, and its position north of the bridge means no opening spans stand between the marina and the sea. The membership mixes powerboat racers, cruisers and social members who come for the weekday lunches, and the on-site marine tenants, from boat brokers to mooring contractors, give it the feel of a small working marine precinct rather than a pure social club. Ford Parade's foreshore and the Lindisfarne village shops are a short walk away.