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Dinghy/Multihull in Scarborough, WA.

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Mixed in Scarborough, QLD.

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Mixed in Main Beach, QLD.

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Mixed in Denham, WA.

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Half a century after three mates turned a chance encounter on the Canning River into an impromptu race, Shelley Sailing Club is still doing exactly what it was invented for: putting Perth families onto the water in small boats on Sunday afternoons. The club sails from the Canning River foreshore off Riverton Drive at Shelley, in Perth's southern suburbs, and it has never pretended to be grander than its 1974 origins — a club that exists, as community listings put it, specifically for family sailing. The scale today is comfortable rather than corporate: a social clubroom beside the original 1981 boat store, an air-conditioned start box fitted with a fixed anemometer, a safety boat, hire Lasers owned by the club, and a canteen whose vouchers come bundled into membership. Whole-family membership runs around $530 a year with no nomination fees — deliberately low barriers for a club whose racing classes are Lasers, Windrush 14 catamarans and Scow Moths rather than anything with a keel. Shelley appears on Australian Sailing's affiliation fee schedule as a WA affiliated club in category B, and it is listed among the stakeholders in the State Government's boating strategy for the Swan-Cann

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A naming note first, because Soldiers Point has three sailing identities and this is only one of them. The off-the-beach club on Seaview Crescent, facing Salamander Bay, sailed for decades under the name Port Stephens Sailing and Aquatic Club — PSSAC to locals — before Newcastle Cruising Yacht Club took up the licence to run it and gave the venue its new name, The Bay Sailing Centre. It is not the Port Stephens Yacht Club, the neighbouring keelboat club beside Soldiers Point Marina, and it is not Corlette Point Sailing Club, the club that founded Sail Port Stephens, though all three cooperate closely. What this club does, specifically, is dinghy, skiff, catamaran and sailboard sailing: launching off a long white beach, racing on Sundays, teaching children and hosting championships. That championship resume is striking for a community venue. PSSAC ran the 2016–17 Australian Tasar Nationals and the 2018 RS Aero Australian Championship, the latter so well received that competitors declared Port Stephens "the best venue" and the event was framed as a rehearsal for a world championship bid. Under NCYC management the centre has kept its elite calendar — it now stages the Off-the-Beach B

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By the numbers, Somers Yacht Club is one of the more remarkable off-the-beach operations in Victoria. When Australian Sailing profiled the club in 2022 it counted 781 members over the age of eight, split almost evenly between sailing and social members, with nearly two hundred juniors on the books. The statistic that really stands out, though, is gender: 48 percent of the membership is female, and around 40 percent of the sailors on the water are women and girls — figures most Australian sailing clubs can only envy. Club racing regularly puts sixty off-the-beach boats on the course, crewed by sailors aged from seven to eighty-four. The club calls itself a club for members run by members, and its stated mission is to be "a volunteer, inclusive community where sailing unites families and friends". It sits in Category B of Australian Sailing's affiliation scale, and everything about it — the foreshore clubhouse, the rescue boats crewed by volunteers, the Friday night bar — reflects that self-description. The location helps: Somers sits at the Mornington Peninsula's south-eastern tip on Western Port Bay, a bush-fringed shoreline where reliable afternoon southerlies blow in off Bass St

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Dinghy in Somerton Park, SA.

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On a peak summer weekend at Sorrento, the moorings and starting line fill with gaff-rigged wooden boats whose working lives began chasing barracouta along the Bass Strait coast more than a century ago. The Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club is the custodian of that fleet — Australia's biggest Couta Boat fleet, by the club's own account — and the centre of what The Wooden Boatshop ranks among the most significant maritime heritage revivals in the country. The club sits in Australian Sailing's top affiliation tier, Category A, and its honours shelf carries Yachting Victoria's Club of the Year award from 2005 plus both the Victorian and Australian Yacht Club of the Year titles for 2015–16. The club occupies a panoramic site on the Sorrento foreshore at the southern end of the Mornington Peninsula, where calm bay water and offshore summer breezes have attracted championship regattas in numbers few Australian clubs can match — world titles in the 49er and 29er, the foiling Moth, the RS:X windsurfer and the WASZP among them. A large membership supplies the skilled volunteer workforce those events demand, while the founding emphasis on a friendly family environment and opportunities for ju

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Few sailing clubs anywhere in Australia sit as close to a capital city's centre as South Brisbane Sailing Club. Its weatherboard clubhouse stands beside Orleigh Park in West End, on a bend of the Brisbane River barely three kilometres upstream from the CBD, and the distance from the back of the building to the water's edge is less than 16 feet. The club traces its beginnings to 1903, which by its own reckoning makes it Queensland's third-oldest sailing club, and it has spent more than a century as a family-based dinghy club racing on the same river reaches. The current membership sits at just over 100, a figure that stabilised after a dip following the 2011 flood, and the club points with some satisfaction to its composition: around 45 per cent female participation and roughly a quarter juniors and youth. The sailing calendar follows the rhythm of an earlier era, with training on Saturday mornings and races on Saturday afternoons from early September through to the end of March, and the front lawn still hosts sausage-sizzle picnics overlooking the river, a tradition the club dates to the early 1900s. Inside, the upper walls carry a dense collage of photographs, medallions, records

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Inverloch can fairly claim a place in world sailing history: the Moth class — the little scow that went on to circle the globe and eventually sprout foils — was born on Anderson Inlet in 1928. The South Gippsland Yacht Club sails that same water today, and it does so in a deliberately modest key. Southern Wooden Boat Sailing has called it an "archetypal community organisation", enthusiastically run by and for the locals, and the club's foreshore buildings have what the same observer affectionately termed a functional beach shack quality. Australian Sailing lists it as a Category B club. The club's own stated priority is participation — fun for every member regardless of skill level or the class of boat they sail — and the fleet reflects that: Impulses, Lasers, RS Aeros and Sabres in the monohull divisions, Taipans and Mosquitos among the cats, all launched off the beach into a shallow tidal inlet that keeps keelboats out and the focus firmly on small boats. The season runs from November, with Sunday racing between eleven and two and regattas programmed on every public holiday weekend. The event that has put the club on the national map is the Inverloch Classic Wooden Dinghy Regatt

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Dinghy/Trailer sailer in South Johnstone, QLD.

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Sunshine is a small settlement at the southern, quieter end of Lake Macquarie, and its sailing club matches the postcode: a family-friendly outfit run by members for members, staffed entirely by volunteers, and priced deliberately low so that, as the club puts it, as many locals as possible can come and enjoy the lake. South Lake Macquarie Amateur Sailing Club has been operating since 1948, and it has never pretended to be anything grander than a community club with a balcony, a canteen and a good stretch of water out the front. Yet this little club routinely hosts events that would stretch organisations ten times its size. The NSW/ACT Laser State Masters have come to Sunshine repeatedly — one edition attracted 131 Lasers split between 59 Radials and 72 Standards, with three current and five former Laser World Masters champions in the fleet — and another running put 107 sailors across three ILCA divisions. In January 2026 the club ran the 56th International Contender Australian National Championship, getting all ten scheduled races away and watching reigning world champion Mark Bulka take the title. Visiting sailors have singled out both the race management and the catering volunt

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Club marina at Applecross overlooking the Swan and Canning rivers to the Perth city skyline, with 473 water pens from 6 m to 25 m, 145 hardstand bays, an on-site travel lift for vessels 6-18 m, 24/7 fuel, a free black-water pump-out, a private launch ramp and a licensed restaurant and bars.

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High above the Shoalhaven lowlands, on a WaterNSW reservoir among the hills behind Nowra, sails a club that cheerfully calls itself the Sailing Club in the Clouds. Southern Highlands Sailing Club has been racing on Fitzroy Falls Reservoir since 1978, and it remains deliberately small: around forty members at last published count, roughly a dozen boats on the water of a Sunday, and an open invitation to families and new residents of the highlands to come and join in. This is not a class-racing club and makes no apology for it. The fleet is mixed and proudly so — multihulls dominate, with Hobie 16s and 18s, Nacra 5.8s and 14-squares, Windrushes and Maricats the most numerous craft on the reservoir, while the Laser stands as the preferred monohull alongside Spirals and the occasional trailer-sailer. Everything races together on yardstick handicap, and the club highlights the close quarters battles between catamaran skippers and Laser sailors as part of the fun. Even rowing boats are welcome at the club area. The atmosphere is casual country sailing in the best sense. The season runs from October to April, the club gathers every Sunday between half past ten and half past four, and a

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Queensland's largest yacht club (est. 1946) with a 300-berth marina at Main Beach and dedicated superyacht berths including Australia's largest floating megayacht berth for vessels to 135m. Australian Port of Entry for customs clearance, 24-hour fuel jetty and bunkering, 35t ship lift and 10,000t dock, waterfront restaurant and gym. A full marina redevelopment to 273 berths is underway; the club also operates the Hollywell Sailing Squadron and Oxenford watersports centre.

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Lake Macquarie has supported sailing clubs for well over a century, and Speers Point Amateur Sailing Club carries one of the oldest pedigrees on the lake, with roots reaching back to at least 1905. The club began on the point now known as Shipbuilders and today occupies a corner of Speers Point Park at Lake Macquarie's northern end, where the green space, the wide ramps and the long view across the water make it natural off-the-beach territory. There are no keelboats here — the location dictates the fleet, and the fleet is dinghies and catamarans. The modern club is a study in steady, volunteer-driven growth. Membership sat just under 120 in 2023 — thirty senior, twenty-three junior, twenty family and eleven SailPass members among them — with numbers climbing on the back of the junior and Friday twilight programs even during the COVID years. Female membership reached 34 per cent, and the club says plainly it wants that figure higher. The sailing fleet numbers 73 boats, 28 of them catamarans and 45 monohulls, and a healthy share of non-sailing members keeps race operations running. Recognition has followed. The club gained Discover Sailing Centre accreditation under Australian Sai

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Other (boat club) in Triabunna, TAS.

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Mixed in St Helens, TAS.

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Mixed in St Kilda, VIC.

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The name tells you the first thing about this club: it is two clubs in one, a sailing fleet and a motor squadron sharing a clubhouse on the Bellarine Peninsula's bay coast, united by a stated focus on "participation in all forms of aquatic activities". The Geelong community directory describes it as a family oriented sailing club, Australian Sailing lists it in Category B, and the doors of the club, cafe and licensed bar open each Sunday from October until Easter, with social functions and live local bands animating occasional summer afternoons. The sailing heart of the club is catamaran-shaped. An A Class catamaran fleet has raced here since 1972 and has produced State and National champions, making St Leonards one of the longest-running A Class homes in the country — a status underlined when the club hosted the 60th Australian A Class Championships in February 2026. The Heron class also has deep roots here: the club ran the 64th Heron National Championship over four days in January 2025. Founding details come with an honest asterisk — club directories date the establishment to 1964, while the commodore has spoken of the club celebrating its sixtieth anniversary in 2026, which po

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Inland sailing has a different rhythm to the coastal game, and few Victorian clubs illustrate that better than Stawell Yacht Club. The club sails on Lake Fyans, a shallow recreational lake lying between the towns of Stawell and Pomonal, beneath the foothills of the Grampian Ranges — Gariwerd — with mountain views framing both the clubhouse and the race course. It is a small, community-run organisation: the Australian Sailing affiliation-fee schedule places it in Category "B", and the office bearers named on the club website are Commodore Anthony Schellens, Secretary Tony Hillier, and Peter Knight, who combines the treasurer, rear commodore and publicity roles. The club was founded in 1954, established by the local community so that boating enthusiasts would have a way to share the pastime, and it began life catering to sailors and powerboat owners alike. Water has not always been guaranteed: sailing was curtailed during the millennium drought years, but the club reports what it calls a "healthy resurgence" since then, and Sunday afternoon racing once again anchors the season. For a small inland club, Stawell has produced some serious catamaran talent. It counts Noel Grellet, a no

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Mixed in Strahan, TAS.

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Melbourne's drinking-water reservoirs are not obvious places to find a sailing club, which makes Sugarloaf Sailing Club one of the more unusual operations in Victorian sailing. The club sails on Sugarloaf Reservoir at Christmas Hills, in the Shire of Nillumbik north-east of the city, and it does so under licence from Melbourne Water — the authority lists licensed sailing by the club as the only permitted water access on the reservoir. Everyone else admires the water from the surrounding park; club members get to race on it. The club's tagline is "Sailing for Everyone", and its own description backs the sentiment: many members arrive new to the sport, and new sailors often begin racing almost immediately rather than serving a long apprenticeship on the shore. Sugarloaf is an affiliated member club of Australian Sailing, and it maintains a strong commitment to Sailability — sailing for people with disability — through community partnerships that include Araluen Rosanna and the disability programs of Banyule City Council. Inclusivity here is not confined to a separate stream. Access dinghies race in the club's general weekly competition alongside classes running from Savage Dolphin