Safety Bay Windsurfing Club

Safety Bay Windsurfing Club is based at 248 Safety Bay Road, Safety Bay, south of Perth. Established in 2024, it aims to introduce people from Rockingham, Safety Bay, Waikiki, Port Kennedy, Shoalwater, Warnbro and surrounding suburbs to windsurfing through introductions, courses and lessons.

Instructors are Australian Sailing qualified, the club provides beginner equipment so members can learn and progress, and membership includes insurance. The club is affiliated with Australian Sailing.

It's a young club with an old home. It sails from the site used by the Safety Bay Yacht Club since 1947, so a new generation is now learning to sail from the same beach where locals have launched boats for almost 80 years. Safety Bay's shallow water and reliable afternoon sea breeze make it one of the best spots around Perth to learn, and the club's gear library means you can try windsurfing without buying anything first.

Find the club on Facebook and Instagram, or see our Safety Bay sailing clubs page and Rockingham page.

Learning is what this club is built for. Safety Bay Windsurfing Club runs introductions, courses and lessons for beginners, taught by Australian Sailing qualified instructors in calm, breezy conditions. You don't need your own board or sail to start: the club has all the beginner equipment members need to learn and progress, and membership includes insurance.

Once you're up and sailing, members sail together around Safety Bay and Shoalwater, and more experienced windsurfers can join events on the Windsurfing Western Australia calendar, which has included a Safety Bay slalom series.

Windsurfing rewards a gradual approach. Beginners start on wide, stable boards with small sails in light morning winds. From there they learn to steer and tack, then move to smaller boards and bigger sails as the sea breeze fills in. Using club gear lets you work out which board and sail sizes suit you before spending money on your own kit.

The club is at 248 Safety Bay Road on the shores of Safety Bay, near Rockingham, about 45 minutes south of Perth. The bay's shallow water and consistent sea breezes make it one of the best places around Perth to learn windsurfing, and members can cruise across to the Shoalwater Islands or out toward Penguin Island.

For keelboat sailing nearby, The Cruising Yacht Club of WA is based in Rockingham.

The afternoon sea breeze is the key ingredient. On summer days it typically fills in from the south-west, giving flat-water blasting inside the bay. Mornings are often light, which is perfect for lessons. Our guide to WA weather and the Fremantle Doctor explains how the breeze behaves along this coast.

Safety Bay Windsurfing Club was established in 2024 to bring more people into windsurfing across Rockingham and the surrounding suburbs. It sails from 248 Safety Bay Road, the former home of the Safety Bay Yacht Club, which held its farewell "Final Voyage" celebration in May 2025 after 78 years.

That yacht club had deep roots. It operated from the site from 1947, making it the oldest yacht club in the Rockingham area. Its first clubrooms were a Nissen hut near the water's edge that regularly flooded; community fundraising built the current clubrooms in the early 1960s on a peppercorn lease from the former Shire of Rockingham. The windsurfing club keeps that long tradition of sailing from this stretch of beach going.