Sailing clubs and yacht clubs Australia

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Tweed Valley Sailing Club (TVSC) is a volunteer-run dinghy club based at the Fingal Head boat harbour on the Tweed River, New South Wales. Operating from a modest clubhouse described as the “TVSC Container”, the club focuses on affordable, community-centred access to dinghy sailing, offering low-cost junior sessions, seasonal learning courses, boat hire and a Sail Pass that lets newcomers try sailing before joining. TVSC runs year-round racing (summer and winter series), junior programs, adult learn-to-sail courses and community Sailability-style outings, and regularly publishes results and event notices on its website.

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Williamstown Sailing Club is a community-focused, off‑the‑beach dinghy club on the Hobsons Bay foreshore in Williamstown, Victoria. The club combines active dinghy and trailer‑sailer racing, accessible learn‑to‑sail programs for juniors and adults, and a strong social calendar from its clubhouse overlooking the bay and Melbourne skyline. Facilities include twin concrete ramps, jetties, a rigging deck, limited storage and swing moorings, and the club hosts regular Saturday racing and novice programs during the sailing season.

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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.

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Woollahra Sailing Club is a sailing club based in Rose Bay (Sydney Harbour) offering organised club sailing, junior and youth programs, learn-to-sail courses and holiday camps, coaching and private lessons, windsurfing and foiling activities, junior pathway programs (Tackers, Green Fleet, Optimist pathway), powerboat courses, social events and venue hire. The club operates from premises at 2 Vickery Ave, Rose Bay and publishes office hours and a calendar of races and events.

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Gosford Sailing Club is a long-established waterfront sailing club on Brisbane Water at 28 Masons Parade, Gosford (NSW). Founded in 1932, the club runs a full sailing programme including keelboat and dinghy fleet racing, Wednesday twilight and Saturday racing, championship regattas, a comprehensive Sailing Academy with junior pathways and adult learn-to-sail options, Sailability and SheSails initiatives, and radio-controlled yacht racing. The venue also operates a protected marina, waterfront dining and function facilities.

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Albert Sailing Club is a community-based sailing club on Albert Park Lake (South Melbourne, VIC) that supports dinghy sailing year-round. The club offers membership options for adults, youth, juniors and families, runs regular club sailing (most Saturdays, some Sundays and midweeks), and promotes Learn to Sail / Discover Sailing programs. Clubrooms open from 10am on Saturdays; club sailing days are typically 10:00–13:00. Secure undercover boat storage is available to members. Contact details listed on the site include an email (membership@albertsc.org.au) and phone (03 9690 2374). The club posts race schedules, weekly news updates and guidance for visitors.

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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.

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Kogarah Bay Sailing Club is a family-friendly dinghy club based at Dover Park, Blakehurst (Kogarah Bay) on the Georges River. The club runs regular class racing for Sabres and RS Aeros plus an Open dinghy division, a well-established Sailability programme for sailors with disability, a Tackers learn-to-sail school for children, and an active Radio Yacht section (International One Metre and similar classes). Club facilities include a clubhouse with showers, a jetty and pontoon, and an elevated radio‑yacht control area overlooking the course.

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Sandy Bay Sailing Club is a volunteer-run family dinghy club at Long Point on Hobart's River Derwent, founded in 1948 to get young people — girls included — out sailing. It fields Optimists, International Cadets, ILCAs, 29ers, 49ers, WASZPs and windsurfers, runs Tackers, Cadet, OutThere and adult learn-to-sail programs, and hosts the 2026 International Cadet Australian Championships.

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St Leonards Yacht Club & Motor Squadron is a combined sailing and motorboat club based in St Leonards, VIC, focused on participation in recreational aquatic activities. The club runs off‑the‑beach sailing and Sunday afternoon club racing (October–Easter), offers Adult and Junior Learn to Sail programs, and operates social facilities including a café and licensed bar on summer Sundays. The club describes a child‑friendly bay beach location on the southern part of Port Phillip Bay.

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Port Denison Sailing Club (PDSC) is an off‑the‑beach dinghy club based on Front Beach, 1 Thomas Street, Bowen, Queensland. The club promotes junior and family dinghy sailing, runs an in‑house Learn to Sail program, stages the annual Sail Bowen regatta each November and maintains a long local sailing tradition the club dates to 1864.

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Shelley Sailing Club is a small, family-focused dinghy club on the Canning River at Shelley (Perth southern suburbs). Established in the mid-1970s, the club sails predominantly small, off‑the‑beach boats on Sunday afternoons and runs a relaxed junior development and learn-to-sail pathway. Facilities are modest and volunteer-run: a clubroom beside an original boatshed, an elevated start box with a fixed anemometer, club-owned hire Lasers, a safety boat and a canteen. The club is affiliated with Australian Sailing and appears as a stakeholder in Swan‑Canning riverpark boating planning.

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Oxley Sailing Club is a volunteer-run dinghy club based at 142 Leybourne Street, Chelmer, sailing on the Indooroopilly Reach of the Brisbane River. The club runs a September–April Saturday afternoon racing season focused on mixed off-the-beach dinghies (Pacers are a core fleet), offers junior Tackers courses and adult learn-to-sail sessions, and maintains a long-standing interclub rivalry with South Brisbane Sailing Club.

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South Brisbane Sailing Club is a community-focused sailing club on the Brisbane River near Orleigh Park in West End (QLD). The club runs organised Saturday racing (September–April), social sailing events and regattas, offers Learn to Sail programs for juniors and adults delivered by instructors, provides club dinghy hire and an active volunteer and social program, and makes a community hall available for hire.

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Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club (LCSC) is a volunteer-run dinghy and small-boat club based at Boreen Point on Lake Cootharaba, Noosa Shire, Queensland. The club runs weekly club racing throughout the season, a busy annual regatta calendar that includes Allboats (August), Cat Challenge (November), MonoMasters (December) and an Easter Regatta, and regular junior learn-to-sail programs through its Discover Sailing Centre operations. Facilities at 24 Boreen Parade include a clubhouse, boat storage and the club’s social Black Flag Bar.

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Southern Highlands Sailing Club is a small, volunteer-run dinghy and multihull club that sails on Fitzroy Falls Reservoir (Nowra Road, Fitzroy Falls, NSW). The club runs a mixed-fleet, yardstick-handicap Sunday racing programme each season (October–April) and welcomes dinghies, catamarans and trailer-sailers for day or season membership. There is no permanent clubhouse or accredited learn-to-sail school: racing, informal skills transfer and a family-friendly picnic-ground setting form the core of the club experience.

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Mackay Sailing Club is a mixed yacht and dinghy club based in Mackay, Queensland, operating a beach-launched dinghy (Off The Beach) section from Shoal Point on Mackay's Northern Beaches and a yacht/trailer-sailer section from Mackay Harbour. The club runs Learn-to-Sail, junior Sabot/O'pen Skiff activity, club racing, race training and social cruising, and organises the annual Mackay Festival of Sails.

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Brisbane Sailing Squadron is a volunteer-run, family-oriented sailing club based at Vic Lucas Park in Bulimba on the southern bank of the Brisbane River. The club runs organised dinghy sailing programs (Lasers, 16ft skiffs, 125s, Optimists and Sabots) and a comprehensive junior sailing program for ages ~7–16, with learn-to-sail and progression courses. Facilities described on the club website include a two-level clubhouse with change rooms, canteen/bar and deck, rigging areas, three launching ramps, limited on-site parking, and a small number of moorings available for short- to long-term hire. The lower clubhouse level stores over 40 boats and the hall is available for hire by members/community groups subject to committee approval.

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Wallaroo Sailing Club has been sailing on Wallaroo Bay on the Yorke Peninsula since 1964. The friendly club offers learn to sail, racing, radio-controlled yachts and Friday social gatherings, with easy beach launching and a clubhouse available for weddings and conferences.

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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.

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Griffith Sailing Club is a small, family-oriented volunteer club on the western shore of Lake Wyangan (Griffith, NSW) offering dinghy and catamaran sailing alongside rowing and kayaking. The club runs a Sunday sailing season from 1 September to 30 April, races using Yardstick handicaps so mixed fleets can compete together, and supports informal learn-to-sail mentoring plus occasional formal courses when instructors are available. The club and lake have experienced significant water-level volatility (drought, flooding and periodic blue‑green algae), and recent recovery work has been an active part of the club’s community role.

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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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IYC Sailing Incorporated is a volunteer-run sailing association based at the Illawarra Yacht Club, 1 Northcliffe Drive, Warrawong, on the northern shore of Lake Illawarra, NSW. The association organises dinghy sailing, windsurfing, trailable yachts and radio-controlled yacht racing, runs learn-to-sail activity for juniors and adults, and hosts regular regattas including the long-standing Lord Mayor's Regatta.

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Chipping Norton Lake Sailing Club is a community-focused dinghy sailing club on Chipping Norton Lake in south‑west Sydney. Established in 1995 and operating from the Lakes Boat Shed at Angle Park, the club runs regular Saturday afternoon racing, volunteer-led learn-to-sail programs for juniors and adults, Sailability and an Access dinghy for sailors with disability, and a strong social culture centred on post-race barbecues and fundraising.