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Sailing club

Parkdale Yacht Club is a community sailing club on the long beach of Port Phillip Bay in Parkdale, VIC. The club runs organised racing (summer and winter Sunday series, twilight sailing), hosts regattas and events, offers Learn to Sail programs (junior, adult and windsurfing) and operates a SailPass casual-sailing option. The clubhouse and new facilities are also promoted for venue hire and club social events. Contact details and event calendar are available on the club website.

Sailing club

Point Leo Boat Club is a community sailing club at 33 Western Parade, Point Leo, VIC. The club runs organised sailing activities, social events and regattas, and offers training programs including Tackers, adult learn-to-sail courses and powerboat training. The site also references boat storage and membership information.

Sailing club

Port Albert Yacht Club is a local yacht and sailing club based in Port Albert, Gippsland, Victoria (31 Bay Street). The club organises sailing and kayaking activities and runs member events such as regular social gatherings and lunch-club days.

Sailing club

Port Fairy Yacht Club is a local sailing club in Port Fairy, VIC offering primarily keelboat ocean sailing including racing and cruising, and a sailability program. The club publishes a seasonal race program and visitor/crew registration information, and lists a contact email for enquiries.

Sailing club

Port Melbourne Yacht Club (PMYC), established in 1889 and located on the Port Melbourne foreshore on Port Phillip Bay, is a sailing club offering organised racing, a sailing school, recreational sailing and boat storage. The club runs regular races (typically Saturdays in season), provides club boats for members on race days, welcomes visiting sailors for a small fee, and has an Events Room available for hire. Contact emails listed include membership@pmyc.asn.au and office@pmyc.asn.au.

Sailing club

Portarlington Sailing Club is a community sailing club on the Bellarine Peninsula at Point Richards, Portarlington (VIC). The club runs organised racing (typically Sundays from September to April), welcomes members and visiting sailors (visitors can join with a SailPass; non-members listed fee $10 per boat), and offers a Learn to Sail program and trailable cruising days. The club also hosts state and national titles for a variety of classes and provides opportunities to volunteer in race management. Contact: info@portarlingtonsc.org.au, 0492 859 686.

Sailing club

Portland Yacht Club is a community sailing club on the foreshore at Portland, Victoria. The club runs social sailing, learn-to-sail and competitive sailing programs for adults and juniors (including a junior sailing project and women’s courses), hosts regattas and welcomes cruising yachts. The club describes facilities and programs for members, and invites volunteer roles such as rescue-boat operators.

Sailing club

Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club (QCYC) is a sailing club located on Swan Island at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, adjacent to Swan Bay Marine Park. The club operates an extensive wharf and a refurbished clubhouse with kitchen, bathrooms, dining/meeting rooms, an upstairs reading room/bar and viewing decks. QCYC accepts visiting yachts for overnight stays with wharfage fees, runs organised races and events, and provides a launching ramp and dinghy storage. The club operates as a volunteer, self-help organisation and requires prior booking for wharf berths.

Sailing club

Queenscliff Lonsdale Yacht Club (QLYC) is a community sailing and boating club in Queenscliff, Victoria. The club runs organised on-water activities including keelboat and Couta boat racing on Port Phillip Bay, dinghy sailing, and paddling (kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards) on Swan Bay. QLYC operates a clubhouse that hosts social events, offers a live clubhouse weather station, and provides bookings for vessel storage and venue hire. Membership and day-by-day SailPass options are offered for participation.

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Sailing arm of the private Ranelagh Club at Mount Eliza, set in a 1920s estate designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, with beach access, tennis, a bar and a restaurant over Port Phillip.

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Volunteer-run, family-friendly yacht club on the foreshore at Rhyll, on Phillip Island's north-east corner, racing dinghies, multihulls, trailerables and keelboats from October to April.

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A beach club at heart on Port Phillip at Rosebud: racing under a "fun, friends and frivolity" ethos, with free use of club paddleboards and gear for members and plenty of social life on the sand.

Sailing club

Royal Brighton Yacht Club is a sailing and yachting club based in Middle Brighton, Victoria. The club runs organised sailing programs, regattas and club sailing activities, and publishes sailing notices, calendars and race management information. The site also highlights learn-to-sail pathways and youth programs (Little Tackers, Tackers and school holiday programs), training and development materials, and club facilities such as a gym and events/calendar pages for members.

Sailing club

Royal Geelong Yacht Club (RGYC) is a waterfront sailing club in Geelong offering a large member clubhouse and organised sailing programs alongside marina and yard facilities. The Club operates a 270-berth marina with temporary and permanent berthing, three public swing moorings nearby, on-site 24-hour EFTPOS fuel pumps supplying diesel and unleaded, a 3,000 kg SWL crane, mast hoist and a slipway (available subject to bookings/fees). RGYC runs a Sailing Academy and a range of practical courses and training including learn-to-sail programs, powerboat courses and radio/first-aid courses. The Club also offers visitor berthing arrangements and recommends phone booking ahead.

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Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (RMYS) is a sailing club based on Pier Road in St Kilda, Victoria, about 20 minutes from Melbourne CBD. The club runs organised sailing programs, training and membership options (including Sail Pass day membership), and operates a 250-berth floating marina offering casual and long-term pens. RMYS provides marina facilities, berth booking and marina terms, locker and boat storage options, slipping/yard storage and antifouling services, and a program of on‑water racing and training courses for juniors and adults.

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Royal Victorian Motor Yacht Club is a Williamstown yacht club with an 80-berth marina for vessels up to 18 m. Current club material advertises permanent, casual and visitor berthing, with water and shore power available to all berths, alongside the club's boating, dining and events facilities.

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Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) is a large, long-established yacht club based at 120 Nelson Place, Williamstown (Hobsons Bay / Port Phillip), with a marina, expansive hardstand and an on-site training centre. The club runs active keelboat and off-the-beach racing programs, junior and youth pathways, and delivers a broad range of practical courses from Australian Sailing and RYA syllabuses. RYCV regularly hosts state, national and international regattas and combines a busy social calendar with member facilities including dining and function spaces.

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Off-the-beach club on the Mornington Peninsula's bay side at Rye, whose sailing school has won state and national instructor awards three times. Welcoming, inclusive and community-driven.

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Safety Beach Sailing Club is a community yacht and sailing club at 185 Marine Drive, Safety Beach, Victoria. The club runs organised on-water programs for keelboats, off‑the‑beach classes and junior sailors, stages racing and event regattas (including Sail Peninsula), offers a junior Learn to Sail program and social/venue facilities (dining and bar, venue hire). The club website provides race calendars, results, membership info and contact details.

Sailing club

Sandringham Yacht Club is one of Port Phillip's great sailing clubs, with roots going back to 1903 and a burgee flown ever since. From its modern clubhouse and 360-berth marina on Jetty Road, it runs keelboat racing, a J/70 youth program, women in sailing programs, Tackers and OutThere learn to sail, Discover Sailing, cruising courses and SailPASS daily access.

Sailing club

Shepparton Sailability is a not-for-profit, self-funded community service helping people of all ages and abilities learn to sail on Victoria Park Lake in Shepparton. It sails a fleet of six Access yachts, designed for easy, dry boarding and wheelchair access, supported by volunteers and a safety boat.

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Somers Yacht Club is a community sailing club on the Mornington Peninsula (Somers, VIC) focused on off‑the‑beach yacht racing and member activities. The club runs Somers Sailing School (a recognized Discover Sailing Centre) offering beginner and progression sailing courses for juniors (minimum age 9) and adults, operates club boat hire and patrol/volunteer programs, and hosts regular social events, newsletters and training/volunteering opportunities.

Sailing club

Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club (SSCBC) is a waterfront sailing club at the southern end of the Mornington Peninsula in Sorrento, Victoria. The club hosts Australia’s largest Couta Boat fleet with regular weekend racing (November to June), runs a Sailing Academy and Learn to Sail programs for children and adults (including youth and coaching programs), and operates a waterfront clubhouse used for dining, members’ events and private functions.