Marine services in Shorncliffe

Sailing club

Yacht club marina on Cabbage Tree Creek at Shorncliffe, established 1948 and start point of the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race. 62 berths to 15m plus a large hardstand, 8-tonne boat ramp and nine pile moorings for multihulls; waterfront licensed restaurant and bar.

Sailing club

A death on the water, rather than a race or a regatta, brought Sandgate Yacht Club into being. After two sailors drowned when their boat capsized during an informal contest near the Brisbane River mouth in November 1911, the local community resolved to organise sailing properly, and the club was founded on 14 February 1912 to give the sport a disciplined home on Bramble Bay. By its own account it is the oldest established boating club in Sandgate and among the most senior sailing clubs in Queensland, and it still occupies the same waterfront strip at 95 Allpass Parade in Shorncliffe, on Cabbage Tree Creek's northern side near where the creek enters the bay. The club describes itself as a community icon of the Sandgate and Shorncliffe bayside, and the claim rests on more than longevity: since its inception it has maintained a safety and rescue operation that has looked after sailors and the wider public alike, a commitment that eventually grew into a separate volunteer marine rescue organisation. On the sailing side, Sandgate is the Queensland home of the Flying Fifteen class, and its keelboat racing on Bramble Bay runs every second Sunday through the September-to-April season with

Sailing club

Few Australian sailing clubs leave as faint a trace on the internet as Upper Cabbage Tree Creek Yacht Club. There is no club website to browse, no Facebook page to scroll, and no newspaper archive recording its races — a researcher in January 2026 found essentially nothing beyond official registers. What those registers do show is a small, genuine, affiliated sailing club on Brisbane's northern fringe. The club holds an Australian Business Number (79 435 915 072) as an unincorporated entity, active from 20 August 2020, with the business name registered a day later; it is not registered for GST, which fits a volunteer-run outfit of modest turnover. Its recorded location is postcode 4017, the patch of Brisbane's northside that takes in Shorncliffe, Sandgate and Deagon. Most tellingly, the club appears in Australian Sailing's affiliation schedule for Queensland, placed in category 21 — the fee band reserved for the smallest clubs in the national system, which it shares with outfits such as Warwick Sailing Club on the Darling Downs. That listing matters: whatever its size, this is a club recognised inside the sport's governing structure, not a casual gathering of mates with boats. The