Sailing clubs and yacht clubs Australia

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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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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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Belmont 16ft Sailing Club (trading as Belmont 16s) is a purpose-built skiff club on the western shore of Lake Macquarie, NSW. Founded in 1922 and centred on 16ft skiff racing, the club runs a broad season of skiff and dinghy competition, formal learn-to-sail and junior development pathways, and regularly hosts state, national and international championships from its redeveloped waterfront clubhouse.

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Greenwich Flying Squadron (GFS) is a volunteer-run sailing club at Bay Street Wharf, Greenwich, on the Lane Cove River entrance to Sydney Harbour. Established in 1924, the club runs year-round keelboat and dinghy racing — including popular Wednesday twilight series — and an active junior Sabot learn-to-race programme. GFS hosts moorings, clubhouse facilities and community social events, and preserves a long local sailing heritage while campaigning competitive modern boats.

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Brisbane Valley Sailing Club is a small, volunteer-run off‑the‑beach club based on the northern shore of Lake Wivenhoe (Hayes Landing / Billies Bay area) in South East Queensland. The club runs a season of trailer-boat racing for single‑hulled dinghies and multihulls and organises an annual Winter Marathon (first weekend in June) that draws up to around 100 visiting boats. Membership is deliberately small (around 10–15 active members) and the club welcomes competent visiting sailors and trailerable boats for its events.

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Port MacDonnell Sailing Club is a small, community-focused dinghy sailing club based at Sea Parade in Port MacDonnell, South Australia. The club runs regular club racing during the sailing season, organises championships and welcomes new members and volunteers. Its primary public presence is a club Facebook page and local community listings.

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Capricornia Cruising Yacht Club (CCYC) is a keelboat-focused yacht club at Rosslyn Bay on the Capricorn Coast, Queensland. The club runs regular racing and cruising events (including the Keppel 100, 3 Island Race and Brass Monkey Series), operates a Discover Sailing Centre specialising in keelboat training, and provides shore facilities such as a clubhouse, jetty, hardstand and haul-out/storage area for keelboats. The clubhouse lies adjacent to Keppel Bay Marina and the Coast Guard at Rosslyn Bay, making Keppel Bay and the nearby Keppel Islands the club's local sailing waters.

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Jervis Bay Cruising Yacht Club (JBCYC) is the keelboat and trailer-yacht club based at Callala Bay on the northern shore of Jervis Bay, New South Wales. The club shares a volunteer-built clubhouse at 42 Boorawine Terrace with Jervis Bay Sailing Club, Sailability Callala and an outrigger canoe club. JBCYC runs a keelboat racing and social programme, supports local trailer-boat owners, and contributes to junior sailing in the precinct via the Callala Junior Sailing School and broader community partnerships.

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Queensland Cruising Yacht Club (QCYC) is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit keelboat club based at Sinbad Street, Shorncliffe on Brisbane’s bayside. Founded in 1948 to create an ocean race from Brisbane, QCYC is best known as the host and registered trademark holder of the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race (B2G). The club operates a 62-berth marina and hardstand, a Sinbad Street clubhouse with bar and restaurant trading on selected days, and an active calendar that mixes club racing, night series, passage events and traditional gatherings such as the Vintage Yacht Regatta.

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Barwon Heads Sailing Association (BHSA) is a community sailing club on the Barwon River that runs social sailing, learn-to-sail programs for juniors, teens and adults, and organised racing (including class racing and events such as the Barwon Safari and Australia Day Aggregate). The club offers limited equipment storage, a small shed, and moorings for members on a first-come, first-served basis, and operates a rescue boat to support safe racing and events.

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The Southport School Sailing Club is the school-based dinghy sailing programme run by The Southport School (TSS) on the Nerang River at Southport, Queensland. Open only to enrolled boys from Year 5–12, the club operates from the school’s waterfront Boat Shed and runs Tackers, Pico/Laser and Pacer pathways. The programme combines nationally accredited Learn-to-Sail courses (as an approved Australian Sailing Discover Sailing Centre) with regular competitive racing for state, national and GPS school events.

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Vaucluse Amateur 12ft Sailing Club is a volunteer-run dinghy club based at the end of Wharf Road, Vaucluse (Kutti Beach), on Sydney Harbour. The club focuses on junior sailing and youth development, running a sailing school, holiday camps and Sunday fleet racing during the official season. Fleet classes include Sabots, Flying 11s and Cherubs, with club boats (Pacers and Pittwater Juniors) used for beginner instruction.

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Clarence River Yacht Club (CRYC) is the keelboat- and trailer-sailer-focused club based at Grafton on the Clarence River, Northern New South Wales. The club runs a regular racing programme (twilight and weekend racing), an annual Easter regatta tied to the Highland Festival, social post-race events at its North Street clubhouse, and organised cruises along the lower Clarence from Grafton toward Yamba. CRYC publishes a Clarence Cruising Guide for the river and welcomes visiting yachts and beginner crew who want to learn by crewing on club racing and cruises.

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Hawkesbury River Yacht Club (HRYC) is a mooring-based keelboat club sailing from Parsley Bay, Brooklyn (NSW). Established in 1992, the club runs year‑round racing and social sailing across the lower Hawkesbury River, Cowan Creek, Broken Bay and Pittwater. The fleet is primarily keelboats of about 6–11 metres, with trailer sailors and sports yachts also welcome. Regular programmes include monthly Passage and Windward‑Leeward series, sprint races, trophy events and the Broken Bay Interclub Series, while beginners typically learn by crewing with members.

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Kurnell Catamaran Club is an off‑the‑beach multihull‑focused sailing club based at Silver Beach, Kurnell, on the eastern shore of Botany Bay (Sydney, NSW). The club runs a weekend racing program through the sailing season, supports a lively junior monohull division, provides long‑term boat storage, and operates race support craft for event safety and starts. It describes itself as a fun, family‑oriented club welcoming novices and experienced multihull sailors alike.

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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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Multihull Yacht Club Queensland (MYCQ) is a specialist multihull club based at Manly on Brisbane's bayside. The volunteer-run club centres on racing and cruising for catamarans and trimarans, administers an Offshore Multihull Rating (OMR) system, and organises the multihull division of the Brisbane to Gladstone alongside regular bay series, cruising-in-company and social events. Meetings and clubhouse activities are held in Trafalgar Street, Manly, with club mail handled through a Wynnum PO box.

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South of Perth Yacht Club (SoPYC) is a large, mixed yacht club located at Coffee Point, Applecross, with on‑water facilities for keelboats, dinghies and powerboats and an extensive sailing academy. The club runs broad coaching and learn‑to‑sail pathways for children, teenagers and adults, operates keelboat and off‑the‑beach racing programs, and provides marina pens, hardstand and travel‑lift services from its clubhouse on the Swan and Canning Rivers.

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Sussex Inlet & Basin Yacht Club (SIBYC) is a local sailing club based on St Georges Basin, NSW, promoting social sailing and club racing. The club runs a weekend racing program (typically Saturdays) during its season from November to May, hosts an annual regatta (traditionally the first weekend in February) and welcomes members interested in trailer-sailer racing and recreational sailing on the Basin. Contact is via the club email for membership, race information and general enquiries.

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The Trailer Sailer Club of Queensland (T.S.C.Q.) is a Brisbane-based, volunteer-run club for trailerable sailboats that operates without a fixed clubhouse. Focused on trailer-sailer racing, cruising and family sailing around Moreton Bay and occasional inland venues, the club runs a frequent calendar of events, welcomes visitors to attend and sail, and emphasises seamanship and safety in its event documentation.

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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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ANU Sailing Club sails on Lake Burley Griffin from its boatshed in Yarralumla Bay. Open to ANU students, staff and graduates, it has a fleet of around 15 boats — Lasers, Tasars, Sharpies, Pacers, a 470, a Contender and windsurfers — plus Introduction to Sailing Days each semester, Tuesday twilight racing and Saturday racing.

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Bay Sailing Centre — formerly Port Stephens Sailing and Aquatic Club — is a sailing club at Soldiers Point on Salamander Bay, now run as part of Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club. With a sandy launching beach, grassy reserves and a 40-year history of dinghy racing and championships, it runs junior Discover Sailing and Learn to Sail, summer point-score racing, and an upstairs café and function space.

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Wagga Wagga Sailing Club is an inland dinghy club on Lake Albert in Wagga Wagga, NSW. A small, community-focused club of around 40 members with regular Saturday racing, the club runs learn-to-sail courses each summer and supports radio-controlled yacht racing. Visitors are welcome to bring their own boat, use club boats or take a crew position.