Marine services in Clermont

Sailing club

Four hundred and twenty kilometres from the nearest coastline, a sailing regatta runs each winter on a dam in Queensland's coal country — and the host is a water-ski club. Theresa Creek Water Sports Club Inc is a community water-sports organisation based at Theresa Creek Dam, also known as Lake Theresa, near Clermont in the Isaac Region of Central Queensland. Water skiing is the club's primary sport, with jet skiing close behind; by any ordinary measure it would not belong in a book of sailing clubs at all. What changed that was the Clermont Outback Regatta. The idea surfaced in August 2021, when the Clermont Community Business Group floated a sailing event on the dam and teamed up with the club to make it real; with guidance from Australian Sailing and the practical muscle of Keppel Bay Sailing Club from Yeppoon, the inaugural regatta ran in August 2023 — an occasion the national body characterised as bringing sailing to the bush. The club then served, jointly with Keppel Bay Sailing Club, as the Organising Authority for the 2024 edition on 3-4 August. There is no standalone club website; the club's public footprint runs mostly through its event partners and community directories,