Sailing club
Geelong Trailable Yacht ClubGeelong, VICEverything about the Geelong Trailable Yacht Club starts from a single idea: the boat lives on its trailer. Rig it in the morning, launch at the ramp, race on Corio Bay, winch it back on and tow it home — no marina berth fees, no permanent mooring, no fixed overheads beyond the essentials. That philosophy, deliberately low-cost and open, has defined the club since twenty-eight people founded it in a technical school library in 1973. Racing is based at the St Helens Marina precinct on Corio Bay's northern shore at East Geelong, with courses built from the club's own marks and buoys and the start and finish near the marina. The fleet covers trailable yachts and small ramp-launched keelboats, and the club is emphatic that you don't need to own a boat to belong: owners regularly look for crew, and visitors are welcome to sail a handful of races before being asked to join. Alongside the racing sits an extensive cruising calendar — trailer-sailers being, after all, boats built to go places — and the club promotes a Discover Sailing pathway for newcomers. The club's voice is its newsletter Even Keel, published since 1977 and once judged the best club newsletter in Victoria. Fifty years on
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