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Club on the east bank of the Mersey River, Devonport, with gated alongside berths with power and water, two 40ft visitor berths, a volunteer-run slipway (10-tonne limit, keelboats to about 50ft) and club moorings in the river.

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Metung is one of those Gippsland Lakes villages where the water is the main street, and Metung Yacht Club sits at the centre of it. Based on the Bancroft Bay shoreline at Metung, some 260 kilometres east of Melbourne, the club has been sailing on Lake King and Bancroft Bay since 1934 — ninety years of continuous club life on the same sheltered waters. It is a sailing and boating club in the full sense: the membership spans sailors and power boaters, and the calendar mixes racing and cruising events with twilight sailing and social cruises. The club's reputation in Australian keelboat circles rests on its championship hosting. The Prince Philip Cup — the Australasian championship of the International Dragon class — came to Metung in January 2018 and returned in January 2024, when Nick Rogers claimed his thirteenth Cup title. The International Flying Dutchman national titles and the East Gippsland Etchells Championships also run from the club, and Dragon sailors speak warmly of the venue's flat water and reliable summer sea breezes. A growing fleet of classic wooden boats, Couta Boats among them, adds a heritage flavour to the scene. The physical club matches the on-water credentia

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Few Sydney clubs wear their speciality as openly as the skiffies of Middle Harbour. "Skiff sailing is the heart and soul of our Club," the members say, and with a 16ft skiff fleet they describe as one of the strongest in Australia, the claim carries weight. Founded at The Spit in 1902 — which, the club notes, makes it the longest established club in Mosman — this is where the great Australian skiff tradition meets a thoroughly modern junior pathway, and where a junior starting at age six can plausibly finish up racing in the bow of a 16-footer. The 16ft skiff itself is a serious piece of equipment: a high-performance carbon racing machine with a three-person crew, two on trapeze and a large masthead asymmetrical spinnaker. Alongside it races the 13ft skiff, the club's affordable entry-level skiff, favoured by youth sailors mostly aged thirteen to twenty-three, which takes to the water on Saturdays shortly after the 16s. The club also hosted the NSW 16ft and 13ft State Championships in November 2025. Off the water, the club runs a licensed bar and bistro at 237 Spit Road, Mosman, hosts weddings and events from its Deck Bar with water views, and brands its functions as "Skiffies Ev

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One class, raced properly, by people who own their boats and turn up — that is the essence of Middle Harbour Amateur Sailing Club, known simply as "The Laser Club". From its base on Lower Parriwi Road at The Spit, Mosman, the club sails only the ILCA dinghy (the boat formerly known as the Laser), fielding ILCA 4, ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 rigs so that sailors of different weights and abilities race on level terms. It welcomes younger and older adults alike, and the culture is built on what the club calls active participation: generally, every member owns an ILCA and sails on race days. There are no paid staff. The clubhouse, the racing and the social calendar are run and maintained entirely by members, whose volunteer contribution is explicitly expected and valued. Commodore Chris Kelleway has framed the club as a local community organisation encouraging adults to build health and fitness through sailing — Laser racing, he notes, can easily keep you in the top decile of your age group fitness-wise. The club's masters culture is a point of pride: a team of members travelled to the 2026 ILCA Masters World Championship at Kalamaki, Athens, and Nick Alexander took the ILCA 7 Masters division

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Member yacht club at The Spit with a 103-berth floating marina and 9 swing moorings, mostly allocated to members and race boats; visitors welcome with bar and bistro.

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Yacht Club (mixed) in Midway Point, TAS.

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Yacht Club (mixed) in Milang, SA.

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Dinghy in Mission Beach, QLD.

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Dinghy in Mollymook, NSW.

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Dinghy (Opti/ILCA) in Mona Vale, NSW.

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Dinghy in Montrose, TAS.

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Mooloolaba Yacht Club prints its priorities in three words — "Sailing, Fun and Friendship" — and that motto has carried the club from its 1967 founding to its present place at the centre of Sunshine Coast keelboat racing. Affiliated with Australian Sailing and based in the marina precinct at Mooloolaba, it is a yacht club in the literal sense: the emphasis falls on keelboats rather than off-the-beach dinghies, and the calendar mixes serious ocean-racing business with an unusually strong social program. The club serves as finishing authority and welcoming party for the Sydney to Mooloolaba Yacht Race, one of the classic east-coast passage races, a duty it has performed since the race's finish shifted north in 1973. It also organises the town's Christmas Boat Parade, which says much about how embedded the club is in local life beyond the start line. The achievement that has drawn the widest attention, though, is its women's keelboat pathway. What began in 2017 as a skills development program has grown into the Mooloolaba Women's Keelboat Regatta, which took out the national SheSails Award at Australian Sailing's 2022 awards night — recognition from the sport's governing body that the

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A hundred years is a long time for any volunteer club, and Mordialloc Motor Yacht Club has just crossed that line: established in 1925 and celebrating its centenary in 2025, it is among the first clubs organised on Port Phillip's shores. Its home is one of the more unusual in Victorian boating — Lambert's Island, a grassed island in Mordialloc Creek a short walk from the Nepean Highway bridge, reached on foot over a bridge from the Bridge Hotel car park. Despite the name, the club is a three-way proposition: sailing, fishing and power boating all have active sections, and the roughly 200 members range in age from their mid-twenties through to retirees. The sailing section races trailer-sailer and keel-type yachts on Port Phillip, with spinnaker fleets featuring on the club calendar, while the power section's navigation rallies take members to host clubs around the bay. The club pays respect to the Bunurong people of the Kulin nation, the Traditional Owners of the land and water it occupies. Club life has a settled, convivial rhythm. General meetings run on the first Tuesday night of each month, the Sutton Lounge hosts social evenings, and members swap contributions through the Sa

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Sailing club at 1 Nepean Highway, Aspendale, on the Mordialloc Creek mouth, providing about 93 swing moorings for members.

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Not every sailing organisation in this directory fits the traditional yacht-club mould. Moreton Bay Boat Club is a licensed club — restaurant, bar, gaming and live entertainment — with a 118-berth marina and an active sailing section attached, sitting at Scarborough, right at the Redcliffe Peninsula's northern tip. A boating directory describes the setting as enjoying spectacular views across to the Glass House Mountains, looking out over the marina berths. Founded in 1963, the club carries the dual character common to Queensland's licensed boat clubs: part community venue, part working sailing organisation, affiliated with Australian Sailing. The sailing section fields championship racing while the clubhouse hosts Friday-night entertainment in the main bar and Sunday sessions on the deck, and the club stages the annual Scarborough Blessing of the Fleet, to which every boat is welcome at no charge. A Gatsby-themed Mariner's Ball, listed for June 2026 at a $130 package price, illustrates the social calendar's range. The Coastal Cruising Club of Australia, writing in 2014, summed the place up as a long-established club carrying every facility a visiting cruiser could want, restaurant

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Mixed in Morgan, SA.

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Club at Schnapper Point, Mornington, providing about 40 swing moorings for members on Port Phillip's eastern shore.

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Dinghy in Mount Eliza, VIC.

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Off-the-beach sailing is the whole game at Mount Martha, and the club wears that identity plainly. Its declared aim is fostering sailing in Mount Martha and the surrounding districts, and it goes about it as an inclusive, family-oriented operation where kayaks and stand-up paddleboards share the yard with racing dinghies all year round. This is a club built for people who like their sailing simple: rig on the grass, launch off the sand, race, pack up, go home salty. That straightforward character has not stopped it hosting serious events. The RS Aero class, one of the fastest-growing single-handed dinghies in the country, has made the club something of a Victorian home base — state championships in 2020, an RS Aero Day in December 2021, and the 2024 Australian national championship, which drew more than 50 boats. The 2026 International Flying Dutchman Victorian titles are also on the club's calendar, and Flying Ants appear in local results alongside the Aeros. Each summer the cruising division of Blairgowrie's Petersville Regatta finishes its 23-mile second day off Mount Martha beach. Membership is priced accessibly — $145 for juniors in 2025-26, $610 for a family — and the seaso

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Sailing club at Crawley on Mounts Bay near the Perth CBD offering clubhouse, pen and dinghy facilities and regular dinghy and keelboat racing.

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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

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Beginners are the whole brief here. Nagambie Lakes Sailing Club describes itself as focused on the novice sailor, and it backs that up with a joining proposition about as gentle as Australian sailing gets: no experience required, a $50 annual social membership, and a sailing fee of just $5 per private boat per sailing day. It is a community-based, volunteer club, re-formed only in 2022, and it runs on friendliness rather than fleet lists. The scale is honestly modest. The club owns a single sailing boat, which needs an experienced skipper aboard, and as of 2025 it does not offer public sail rides. What it offers instead is a low-pressure doorway into the sport on one of Victoria's great inland stretches of water, Lake Nagambie, from a boatshed at the Nagambie Lakes Regatta Centre on Loddings Lane. Kayakers and stand-up paddleboarders are welcomed as members alongside the sailors, widening the club's reach across anyone who likes being afloat under their own steam. Bev Guest-Smith, who steered the re-formation as president and commodore and by 2025 carried the president, secretary and public officer roles, personifies the volunteer energy holding it together. The club sits inside

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Keelboats & dinghies in Narooma, NSW.

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Three generations of the same family sharing a Sunday start line is not a marketing slogan at Narrabeen Lakes Sailing Club — it is a fairly ordinary weekend. This small, entirely volunteer-run club on Sydney's Northern Beaches has built its identity around family dinghy sailing, describing itself as a place that grows sailors "from novice to experienced racer" across a lifetime. Nobody needs to own a boat or arrive with experience; club boats and a patient fleet of parent volunteers take care of both. The culture is deliberately open, with supporter badges for the Pride in Sport and Play by the Rules programs displayed alongside the class flags, signalling that newcomers of every background can expect a welcome on the rigging lawn. Underneath the gentle first-timer atmosphere sits a genuine racing pedigree. Adult and youth sailors from the club regularly contest state and national titles across several classes, and the club ran the Sabot Southern Zone NSW Championship in March 2025. The same lake that teaches an eight-year-old to tack on a Sunday morning hosts tightly fought Heron racing in the afternoon, and the pathway between those two experiences is the club's whole reason for