Marine services in Broome

Sailing club

Tides run the show in Broome. This Kimberley town sits on some of the most dramatically tidal water in Australia — as general context, the ebb and flow off Cable Beach is measured in metres, not centimetres — so it is no surprise that the local sailing club arranges its life around the tide tables. Broome Sailing Club meets on Sundays every second week, with session times that shift to suit the water, launching off the beach at Gantheaume Point, the red-rock headland closing off Cable Beach's southern end. It is a club without a permanent clubhouse: as of 2019 it was collaborating with the Shire of Broome and the Broome Turf Club on designs for a permanent base at a proposed Gantheaume Point location, and its old website has since gone quiet. Honesty requires a caveat here: the club is absent from Australian Sailing's present affiliation fee schedule, so its formal status is unverified, and much of what is publicly known dates from a 2019 Australian Sailing feature and Shire of Broome documents. What those sources show is a small, welcoming, beach-launched operation — public sailing days with hire boats available, day membership from ten dollars, a barbecue after the afternoon sail