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Sailing club

Brisbane's bayside suburb of Manly packs more sailing clubs into a few hundred metres of foreshore than almost anywhere in Queensland, and among them sits one of the district's oldest sporting institutions of any kind. Darling Point Sailing Squadron — DPSS — is a volunteer-run community club based on Norfolk Point, at Manly Boat Harbour's northern end, and its motto states its terms plainly: affordable, family-friendly sailing on the bay. A heritage record credits it as one of the longest continuously operating sporting clubs anywhere in the Wynnum-Manly district. The squadron's specialty is off-the-beach sailing — dinghies and skiffs raced on Waterloo Bay — and its lineage in the 16ft skiff class is long and genuine. The club raced the class as its senior fleet from 1946, hosted the national championship on its home waters in the summer of 1982–83, and still sends skiffs to the Australian titles: the DPSS boat RW Retail, sailed by Carlton Smith, contested the 2021/22 championship at Belmont on Lake Macquarie. Sharing is built into the club's operations. Its facilities at Norfolk Point are used by other sailing organisations, most notably Sailability Bayside, which runs sailing f

Sailing club

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Sailing club

Multihull Yacht Club Queensland does exactly what its name promises: it is the Brisbane home for sailors who reckon two hulls — or three — will always beat one. Based at Manly on Moreton Bay, the club styles itself, in its own directory listings, as the country's leading multihull club, and points to a membership that has counted most of the country's principal multihull designers, builders and industry figures among its ranks, together with sailors holding championships, world voyages and Australian and world circumnavigations. The claim rests on real substance: the modern club was formed in 2001 by amalgamating south-east Queensland's various multihull groups, whose roots reach back to 1965, when a dozen multihull owners first organised to race their own Brisbane to Gladstone. It remains a totally voluntary organisation, dependent on active member contribution rather than paid staff, and is affiliated with Australian Sailing. The program centres on offshore multihull racing — headlined by the multihull division of the Brisbane to Gladstone — alongside cruising-in-company and social events, run from a clubhouse in Trafalgar Street, Manly, in the heart of Brisbane's bayside sailing

Sailing club

Prestigious yacht squadron established 1885 at Manly; 5 Gold Anchor marina and MIA Club of the Year 2025. 597 floating berths (mono 10-33.5m, multihull 12-18m), 151 hardstand spaces, 35t travelift, 2.5t slew crane, 24-hour fuel pontoon, marina concierge and on-site Marine Trade Centre. Also operates the Canaipa retreat on Russell Island.

Sailing club

Few Australian sailing clubs can point to a trophy older than organised racing on their home waters, yet the silverware at the heart of Wynnum Manly Sailing Club's season was crafted in England in 1890. The sterling cup originally rewarded marksmen at a rifle-shooting contest held on St Helena Island, Moreton Bay's former penal settlement, and it entered yachting when member Mick Patterson offered it from his family's collection. Patterson, together with Stan Davey and Rod Florence, had conceived a teams regatta modelled on the Admiral's Cup, first sailed in 1976; half a century later, in 2025, the St Helena Cup marked its fiftieth anniversary with the club as proud custodian of the event. Around that anchor sits a club with an unusually clear purpose. Wynnum Manly Sailing Club describes itself as a friendly, inclusive organisation devoted to safe and enjoyable yacht racing on Moreton Bay — racing is the whole brief, and the club makes no apology for it. It was incorporated in 1997 by sailors from the separate Wynnum Manly Yacht Club, an older all-boat body whose Manly grounds the younger outfit still calls home. The two share a harbour precinct and much of a name, which occasiona