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Mannering Park Amateur Sailing Club is a volunteer-run community yacht and dinghy club on the Grace Street peninsula at Mannering Park, on the southern basin of Lake Macquarie, NSW. The club runs regular Saturday and Wednesday twilight racing across a mixed fleet of trailer sailers, small fixed‑keel yachts, dinghies and catamarans, and provides learn-to-sail programmes for juniors and adults alongside community Discover Sailing events.

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Manning River Sailing Club is a family-focused dinghy club based on the Manning River at Taree, NSW. The club has a strong junior development tradition (Sabots feeding into VJ two-person racing boats), supports Sailability programs, and operates from a clubhouse and rigging area on William Wynter Drive with river access and a concrete launching ramp.

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Merimbula Sailboard Club was formed in 1980–81 by local wave sailors and is based at Main Beach, Merimbula, on the NSW Sapphire Coast. It runs the Merimbula Classic every November — held every year since 1981 and one of the longest-running wave-sailing events in the world — and the PenneMal in May.

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Middle Harbour 16ft Skiff Club (Middle Harbour Skiffs) is a Mosman-based skiff club on the Middle Harbour foreshore at The Spit. Founded in 1902, the club specialises in high-performance 16ft skiff racing and runs a full junior pathway from beginner Poppies/Optimists through Manly Juniors and Flying 11s up to 13ft and 16ft skiffs. The clubhouse at 237 Spit Road houses a licensed bar and bistro, event facilities (Deck Bar) and supports regular weekend and twilight racing.

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Middle Harbour Amateur Sailing Club (MHASC), known locally as The Laser Club, is a volunteer-run dinghy club based at The Spit, Lower Parriwi Road, Mosman, on Sydney’s Middle Harbour. The club is single-class focused — racing ILCA/Laser dinghies across ILCA 4, ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 rigs — and promotes active member participation, competitive one-design racing and a strong masters presence rather than formal beginner tuition.

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Middle Harbour Yacht Club (MHYC) sits on the shores of The Spit in Mosman, about seven kilometres north of Sydney CBD. MHYC is a large, active yacht club with an extensive keelboat racing programme, an on-site sail-training school and youth programme, a 103-berth marina, and the Australian Sailing Team National Training Centre. The club runs weekly inshore and twilight racing, major regattas including the Sydney Harbour Regatta and the Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship, and year-round learn-to-sail and instructor programmes.

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Narrabeen Lakes Sailing Club (NLSC) is a volunteer-run dinghy club based at Jamieson Park on Narrabeen Lagoon in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. The club focuses on family-friendly, lifetime pathways in small-boat sailing — from beginner Learn to Sail programs for children through to competitive youth and adult racing in classes such as Optimist, Sabot, Heron and Laser. NLSC operates on calm, enclosed lagoon waters and maintains an inclusive community culture with club boats, coaching squads and active parent participation.

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New England Sailing Club is a small, community-focused dinghy and multihull sailing club based at Loch Malpas (Malpas Dam) on the New England Tablelands, near Armidale, NSW. Perched at about 1,175 metres elevation, the club sails on a cold high-country reservoir and runs a season of weekend racing, junior development and social events. The club is incorporated and affiliated with Australian Sailing and supports a mix of dinghies, catamarans, windsurfing and foiling craft rather than keelboat racing.

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Newcastle & Hunter Trailer Yacht Association (NHTYA) is a volunteer-run sailing club for trailer sailers based on Lake Macquarie. The association organises social cruising weekends, local and off-the-beach racing, a year-round racing and cruising calendar, monthly meetings, and member social events. The club welcomes novice and experienced trailer-sailer owners, offers peer help with rigging and sailing, and publishes a monthly newsletter and race program.

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Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club (NCYC) in Wickham, NSW is a waterfront sailing club offering organised sailing programs, a sailing academy (junior and adult courses, powerboat and instructor courses), marina facilities with multiple marina arms and visitor information, and a clubhouse with dining and function spaces. The club precinct also includes a boatyard/shipyard and maintenance facilities and a commercial centre.

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Northbridge Sailing Club is a community-focused dinghy club on Sailors Bay at the head of Middle Harbour in Northbridge, NSW. The club runs learn-to-sail courses and a long-established January “Live-In” junior camp, supports social sailing and regular club racing across a range of dinghy classes and maintains a waterside clubhouse with deck facing calm, protected water.

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Nowra Community Sailing Club is a small, community-run dinghy club on the Shoalhaven River at Nowra (NSW South Coast). The club races a mixed dinghy fleet including Spirals, Finns, Lasers, Manly Graduates and Hansas, and is notable for an inclusive sailing culture that races Hansa accessibility dinghies alongside other classes. The club lost its long-standing clubhouse to fire in June 2017 but continues to run regular Saturday sailing from a public wharf precinct south‑east of the Nowra road bridge.

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Oak Flats Sailing Club is a small, family‑oriented dinghy club on the southern shore of Lake Illawarra at Deakin Reserve, Oak Flats (NSW). Founded in 1949 as the Illawarra South Yacht Club and renamed in the mid‑1950s, the club runs weekly sailing from a modest waterside clubhouse, operates a shared fleet of Spiral dinghies and focuses on accessible, community‑based training and racing rather than large regattas.

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Palm Beach Sailing Club (PBSC) is an off‑the‑beach multihull‑focused sailing club based at Sand Point / Sandy Beach, Palm Beach (Pittwater), New South Wales. It welcomes catamarans of all classes, windsurfers and small dinghies, runs regular Saturday racing and Sunday learn‑to‑sail sessions, and maintains a strong history of producing state, national, world and Olympic multihull sailors. The club operates from a modest clubhouse and beach rigging area at 1 Iluka Road, Palm Beach, and its sailing calendar centres on the summer nor‑east sea breeze and the long‑running Beware the Bullets regatta.

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Palm Beach Yacht Club (PBYC) is a small, member‑run keelboat club based at Palm Beach on Pittwater, New South Wales. The club deliberately operates without a clubhouse or marina: members keep yachts on moorings in the estuary and use shared club casual moorings. PBYC focuses on friendly yacht racing and cruising, with a full seasonal calendar of twilight, Sunday and sprint races and an active social program centred on post‑race dinners and raft‑ups. Membership is structured to keep fees low and to welcome less experienced sailors through small fleet racing and a crew (non‑boat owner) membership option.

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Parramatta River Sailing Club (PRSC) is a small, keelboat-focused sailing club based on Looking Glass Point at the end of Wharf Road, Gladesville (Parramatta River / Sydney Harbour). It runs two-division handicap keelboat racing (spinnaker and non-spinnaker formats), a Wednesday twilight series in daylight saving months, and occasional harbour courses. The club emphasises competitive but friendly racing, social debriefs in the clubhouse and an informal ‘try-before-you-buy’ approach for newcomers.

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Port Hacking Open Sailing Club (PHOSC) is a family-oriented dinghy sailing club based at Yowie Bay on the Port Hacking River, Sutherland Shire, NSW. Established in 1945, the club runs seasonal dinghy racing, member coaching and lessons for juniors and adults, offers a SailPass day option for newcomers, and hires a waterfront clubhouse for events. PHOSC supports a mixed dinghy fleet including Herons, NS14s, Manly Juniors, Flying 11s, Optimists and BIC O'pen Skiffs, and maintains member moorings for deep-water access.

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Stockton's 16ft skiff club, racing across the harbour from Newcastle since 1909 and one of Australia's oldest continuously operating skiff clubs, with 16-footers, MG14s, catamarans and Flying Ants.

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Port Kembla Sailing Club Co-op is a volunteer-run dinghy and trailer-yacht club on the northern shore of Lake Illawarra (Berkeley, NSW). The club runs an active learn-to-sail and junior coaching program, regular Saturday club racing, and hosts state- and national-level off-the-beach regattas — its signature event is Sail Illawarra (incorporating the Kembla Klassic). Facilities include an expansive clubhouse with canteen and bar, large grassy rigging area, sandy beach launching for off-the-beach boats, nearby ramp for trailable yachts, parking and hot showers.

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Port Macquarie Sailing Club is a volunteer-run dinghy and catamaran club based at McInherney Park, Settlement Point, on the Hastings River in Port Macquarie, NSW. The club runs an active off‑the‑beach racing program for mixed fleets (monohulls and cats), long-distance marathon events and community come-and-try sailing in partnership with the Port Macquarie Yacht Club and Sailability.

Sailing club

Port Macquarie Yacht Club (PMYC) is a keelboat-focused sailing club on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. PMYC runs year‑round inshore racing on the Hastings River and an active offshore programme into the Tasman Sea, with Sunday races every week and twilight pointscore racing during daylight saving. The club operates as a member club of Yachting NSW and meets at the Port Macquarie Sailing Club premises at Settlement Point.

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Port of Yamba Yacht Club is a friendly, mixed keelboat and dinghy club based at Yamba Marina on the lower Clarence River, New South Wales. Founded in 1998, the club runs regular midweek and Sunday racing, twilight events in warmer months, twice-yearly regattas (including an established Easter regatta) and a welcoming social programme centred on its licensed clubhouse, the YAMBAR. Visitors and novice crew are actively invited to join sails and racing.

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Keelboat club at Soldiers Point on Port Stephens, running around 119 races and events a year across four seasons, from Saturday pointscores to offshore sprints beyond the heads.