Sailing Clubs across Australia

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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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Queensland Cruising Yacht Club (QCYC) at Shorncliffe is a yacht and sailing club that organises racing and events (including the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race), offers club membership and shore-based facilities, and promotes sailing programs and training. The club website highlights a waterfront restaurant and bar, regular sailing events and series, marina and hardstand facilities, and accessibility sailing (Sailability).

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Richmond River Sailing & Rowing Club is a community sailing and rowing club located on the Richmond River in Ballina, NSW. The club runs organised sailing programs including weekly races and a racing season (September–end of May), offers Learn to Sail courses and training boats, and supports a range of small-boat classes (dinghy, catamaran, skiff, gennaker and trailer-sailors). Contact and booking details are published on the club website.

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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 Perth Yacht Club is a long-established sailing club in Crawley, Western Australia, offering organised sailing programs, membership services, on-water events and a riverside marina. The club runs learn-to-sail courses for adults and kids (keelboat and dinghy programs), operates the Crawley Marina (with berthing for Swan River and ocean cruising) and promotes racing, social events and venue hire across its Crawley waterfront site and a Fremantle annexe.

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Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) is a sailing club on Pittwater at Newport, NSW offering club membership and organised sailing, racing and training programs plus waterside marine facilities. The club provides a 342-berth concrete marina with shore power and water, permanent and casual moorings, dinghy and hardstand dry storage, a 50-tonne travel lift boatyard, on-site vessel servicing tenants (including a chandlery), 7-day tender/berth assistance and shore facilities such as toilets, showers and laundry. RPAYC also runs learn-to-sail, youth development and powerboat/skipper training courses and offers visitor berthing and boatyard access.

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Royal Prince Edward Yacht Club (RPEYC) is a private yacht club at 160 Wolseley Rd, Point Piper on Felix Bay, on the south‑eastern shore of Sydney Harbour. The club (membership by invitation) provides clubhouse facilities, a jetty for member drop‑off/pick‑up (subject to vessel‑size limits), a boat shed for small sailing boats, dinghies and kayaks, and a davit for lifting boats to road level. RPEYC runs an active sailing and racing program on Sydney Harbour, including Wednesday and Sunday race series, regattas and race management services. Guests are welcome when accompanied by a member.

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Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron (RQYS) is a long-established sailing and cruising club located on the waterfront at Manly in Brisbane’s eastern Bayside, sailing on Moreton Bay. The Squadron runs club racing and state, national and international regattas, operates a Sailing Academy with youth and adult Learn-to-Sail and powerboat courses, and maintains marina and boatyard facilities including on-water and off-water boat storage. The website also lists fuel prices and event, coaching and cruising programs.

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The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (RYCT) in Sandy Bay, Hobart, operates a large marina and sailing club offering berthing and visitor moorings, marina facilities and fuel access. The club welcomes short-term visitors and long-term berth holders, provides power and water connections and secure, fob‑access pontoons, and runs sailing and boating training programs alongside club racing and events.

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The Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) is a Williamstown-based sailing club on Port Phillip offering club sailing, organised racing (including state, national and international regattas), junior and adult learn-to-sail programs, and a broad training calendar. The club site and clubhouse support marina access, an expansive hardstand and yard, slipping/haul-out services and storage for visiting and member boats. Clubhouse facilities include dining, a bar, function spaces and member amenities.

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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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Sandgate Yacht Club is a local yacht and sailing club based in Shorncliffe, QLD. The club runs regular racing programs and event series (summer and winter series, club championships, trophy races and state-level events), coordinates race operations (start boat, course setting and race officers), offers crew/skipper matchmaking support and occasional coaching, and hosts community activities such as post-race BBQs.

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Saratoga Sailing Club is a community sailing club on the Saratoga Peninsula, Central Coast NSW, organising casual sailing, racing (including Sundays and regattas) and social activities. The club hosts junior membership and welcomes new sailors of varying experience. The clubhouse includes a ground-level boat storage area and an elevated hall (refurbished 2023) with kitchen, deck and views over Brisbane Water that the club hires for functions (weddings, engagements, birthdays and community events).

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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.

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Somerton Yacht Club is a small, family-focused dinghy sailing club in Somerton Park, South Australia. The club runs organised Saturday sailing (October to Easter), club racing, training and coaching, “try sailing” days and a social calendar with barbecues and weekend trips. Facilities mentioned include a clubhouse with balcony, canteen, BBQ area, rigging lawn, showers and easy beach access.

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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.

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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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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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Sydney Amateur Sailing Club (SASC) is a long‑established sailing club on Sydney Harbour, based at Cremorne Point / Mosman Bay. The club runs organised racing, regattas and member events, offers membership and crew opportunities (including SailPass and skippers briefings), and provides on‑site boating facilities such as a tender service, boatsheds with dinghy and locker storage, a Green Shed for working on yachts, a slipway with shipwright services and weekend slipping, and club moorings.

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Sydney High School Sailing Association (SHSSA) is an incorporated school-affiliated sailing association that promotes yachting and sailing for students, alumni (Old Boys) and friends of Sydney Boys High School. The association organises and conducts sailing and racing activities, provides a vehicle for facility-use agreements on behalf of the school, and manages membership arrangements (the school pays fees for current students). Contact is via the school sailing MIC or the school phone number listed on the site.

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Sydney Flying Squadron is a long-established sailing club based in Kirribilli, NSW, that organises open-boat and skiff racing on Sydney Harbour (notably 18‑footer and 12‑footer events). The club website also references sailing courses and information for sailors, race results and calendars, plus on-site hospitality facilities (a restaurant and a café) and event/function hire.

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Tamar Yacht Club is a Launceston-based sailing club with a city clubhouse (7 Park Street), a slipyard and moorings at its Launceston site, and a 100‑berth floating marina operated at Beauty Point. The club runs organised sailing and racing programs, learn-to-sail and other training courses (including powerboat training and marine radio/operator courses), provides slipping/slipyard facilities, berthing and moorings (including pile moorings), and offers dinghy storage and short-term visitor berthing at the Beauty Point marina. Contact details and berth booking information are available via the club office and the marina caretaker phone number 0418 321 339.

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Teralba Amateur Sailing Club (TASC) is an amateur, family-friendly sailing club based at the northern end of Lake Macquarie. The club runs organised racing (typically Saturdays from September until Easter, with a break over Christmas/New Year), hosts regattas and events, and supports a range of dinghy classes (examples listed include Vee Ess, Vee Jay, NS14, Impulse, Contender, Sabot and O'pen Skiff). The club website also references Learn to Sail & Training and venue hire information.

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The Southport School Sailing Club is the school sailing program for The Southport School (Southport, QLD). Open to boys from Year 5–12, the program runs in Term 4 and Term 1 and operates from the school’s waterfront boat shed on the Nerang River. A fleet of dinghies (Tackers, Pico, Lasers and Pacers) is used for learn-to-sail and competitive racing. Coaches (many alumni) are accredited through Australian Sailing, and the school is an approved Discover Sailing Centre able to offer nationally accredited sailing courses. The club fields competitive teams in interschool and wider state/national events; more than 100 students take part each year.