Marine services in Augusta

Sailing club

Western Australia's far south-west corner is where two oceans meet — the Southern and the Indian — off Cape Leeuwin, and the nearest town to that meeting point is Augusta. It is an unlikely spot for anything half-hearted, and Augusta Yacht Club fits the setting: a small, self-reliant club founded in 1994 that has grown past fifty members and built its life on the calmer water behind the cape, along the Blackwood River and the broad estuary known as Hardy Inlet. The club is affiliated with Australian Sailing in category 21, the smallest-club band, and can be reached through its secretary at secretary@augustayachtclub.com.au or on 0419 953 369. Its clubhouse, opened in 2000, stands on the banks of the Blackwood, and in 2020 members renovated it themselves — recladding the exterior and reconfiguring the interior so it could house a fleet of St Ayles rowing skiffs alongside a clubroom for about fifty people. That skiff program, rowing from the yacht club three mornings a week, brought in roughly twenty-five new members in a single year and pushed membership close to seventy — a striking reinvention for a sailing club nearing its third decade. Add a Sunday racing rhythm that the local P