Capricornia Cruising Yacht Club

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Local details at a glance

Keelboat sailing on the Capricorn Coast orbits around one organisation: Capricornia Cruising Yacht Club, based at Rosslyn Bay just south of Yeppoon. Australian Sailing, profiling the club in its Club in Focus series, went so far as to call it the centrepiece of its local sailing community — the governing body's words, not the club's — and pointed to close ties with Keppel Bay Sailing Club across the bay, which covers the dinghy side of the local scene. The numbers behind that description are solid. At the time of the profile, around 2022, the club reported 334 members, with women making up 34 per cent of the total — a notably strong female participation figure for a keelboat club. Bruce Sagnol was Commodore when the profile was written. The club's scope is cruising and racing rather than off-the-beach sailing, and its calendar is built around three signature fixtures — the Keppel 100, the 3 Island Race and the Brass Monkey Series — each of which, according to Australian Sailing, pulls in large fields of competitors and spectators alike. The club also carries an unexpected brush with sailing's highest level. Capricornia is the home club of Joey Newton, an RC44 World Champion and s

Service area: Rosslyn Bay, QLD