Marine services in Lake Argyle (Kununurra area)

Sailing club

Few sailing clubs in Australia can claim a home water quite like this one. Ord River Sailing Club sails on Lake Argyle, the vast man-made expanse created when the Ord River was dammed in the East Kimberley, roughly as far from the nation's metropolitan yachting circuits as a club can be while still flying the Australian Sailing burgee. In June 2026 the national body formally welcomed the Kununurra-based organisation into its affiliated network, listing it with twenty-two members — a modest number that says little about the ambition behind the club's revival. Weeks earlier, on Sunday 10 May 2026, fifty-six local people had turned out for the club's first Discover Sailing Day, a remarkable response for a small inland community better known for cattle country and the Argyle diamond story than for start lines and handicap sheets. The club is incorporated, GST-registered and has held an active ABN since 1 July 2009, with its postal address in Kununurra and a listing among the community groups at the town's Neighbourhood House. Its online footprint is thin — directory entries, government records and class association archives rather than a dedicated website — which makes the recent momen