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Dinghy/Multihull in Buddina, QLD.

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"Your Club Since 1957" runs the tagline, and Keppel Bay Sailing Club wears that longevity prominently. Standing on Anzac Parade on the Yeppoon foreshore, it is a not-for-profit organisation that Australian Sailing describes as one of the country's leading off-the-beach dinghy sailing venues and the central hub for sailing in Central Queensland. The description is hard to argue with: in 2023 the club took out the national Club of the Year award in Category A after first being named Queensland Club of the Year. Its operations extend well beyond the beach. By its own figures the club is the second-largest employer in the Yeppoon region, running multiple venues with more than 100 local staff, and its five venues — The Clubhouse at Yeppoon, The Spinnaker, Kracker's Bar & Grill, the Sail Inn Cafe & Bar, plus Club Emu Park — make it as much a hospitality organisation as a sailing one. The sailing numbers are equally striking: 280 active sailing members as of 2023, roughly half of them under eighteen, eight life members, and an associate membership exceeding 12,000. A landmark redevelopment has transformed the foreshore site into a three-storey clubhouse and conference centre of some 2,8

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Yacht Club (mixed) in Kettering, TAS.

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Yacht Club in Kew, VIC.

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Dinghies & keelboats in Kiama, NSW.

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Dinghy in Kincumber, NSW.

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Dinghy/Multihull in Albany, WA.

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Other (boat club) in Currie, King Island, TAS.

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Dinghy in Kingston Beach, TAS.

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Three quite different sailing tribes share the waterfront at Dover Park, Blakehurst, and all of them call Kogarah Bay Sailing Club home. The first is the dinghy fleet — class racing for Sabres and RS Aeros, plus an Open division that typically fields RS Quests, Herons, Lasers, Sharks and Nacras, with briefings at 1 pm and a 2 pm start in summer shifting an hour earlier through winter. The second is one of the larger Sailability operations in Sydney, taking people with disabilities sailing at minimal cost. The third launches nothing at all: the Kogarah Bay Radio Yacht Club, whose members race International One Metres and other classes from an elevated control area beside the clubhouse, as Associate Members of the parent club. The radio sailors describe their fleet as the largest IOM contingent in Sydney, with membership they rank third among NSW radio-yacht clubs — big claims, but the silverware and national titles hosted here give them weight. The club's own pitch is a friendly place where the whole family can sail and race together, whatever their ages, and the calendar backs the tone. The KBSC Aero Wettie Warmer Winter Series keeps RS Aero sailors racing through the cold months,

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The judges of Western Australia's 2021 Sailing Club of the Year award could hardly have missed the numbers coming out of Bunbury: membership up 114 per cent, an expanded junior program, and two women — Commodore Sarah Twigger, with Deri Price as her Vice Commodore — running the show. Koombana Bay Sailing Club took the honour, and the citation's emphasis on inclusive opportunity captured what this volunteer-run South West club had been quietly building for years. By 2022 the roll stood at 496 members, 189 of them social members whom the club actively encourages onto the water through SailPass, Australian Sailing's introductory membership. What distinguishes Koombana Bay from many regional clubs is breadth. Under one burgee it fields keelboats, catamarans and off-the-beach dinghies, all racing under handicap, and its Saturday program splits into four classes so that juniors in training dinghies, senior dinghy sailors, cat crews and keelboat teams each get meaningful competition. The keelboat scene is built around the S80, a Swarbrick design of eight metres familiar across WA waters, racing alongside bigger cruiser-racers, while the catamaran fleet carries a long Nacra tradition that

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Few sailing clubs have reinvented themselves as completely as Koonawarra Bay. Founded in the 1950s as a conventional dinghy and catamaran club on the western shore of Lake Illawarra, it now centres its sailing on two very modern niches: radio-controlled yachts and foiling windsurfers. The radio fleet is the heartbeat — International One Metres racing on Saturdays and Tuesdays, the big A Class boats on Thursdays, everything starting at midday — while the windsurfers bring speed and spectacle when the westerly gets up. The club is quick to note that all classes remain welcome, a holdover from decades in which its members sailed just about everything that floats, from dinghies to the small catamarans the club once owned for members to use. The character is small-scale and welcoming rather than corporate. Commodore Ralph Skea and Secretary Jon Pinkerton head a club affiliated with the NSW Radio Yachting Association, and the membership count isn't published — but the activity level speaks clearly enough, with organised sailing three days a week all year. Midday starts leave the morning free for boat preparation and tuning on the club's big grassed rigging areas, and the elevated point

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Dinghy/Trailer sailer in Kununurra, WA.

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Catamarans rule the grass at Silver Beach. Kurnell Catamaran Club, on the southern headland of Botany Bay, is Sydney's dedicated off-the-beach multihull club, and its rigging area reads like a catalogue of the breed: Tornados, Taipans, Hobie Cats, NACRAs, F16s and F18s, A Class cats, Maricats, Paper Tigers, Stingrays, Windrush and more, with cruising multihulls and junior monohulls welcome alongside. The club calls itself "a fun, family oriented Club" and says it looks after raw novices and seasoned experts in equal measure; the racing program — most weekends from early September to early May — serves both ends of that range. For a beach cat club, the competitive reach is remarkable. KCC sailors Pete and Bailey Skewes, racing as Team Australia 2, finished second in the 2024 running of the Worrell 1000 — the legendary thousand-mile dash up the American east coast — aboard an F18. Archie Gargett sails the NACRA 17 — the Olympic mixed multihull — alongside crew Sarah Hoffman, and contested the 2026 European Championships, while other members lined up at the F18 World Championships in early 2026. At home, the KCC Top Gun Regatta each November draws the state's cat sailors to Botany Ba

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Mixed in Kwinana Beach, WA.

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A lobster on the trophy table says something about a sailing club's sense of place. At Kingston SE on South Australia's south-east coast, the Lacepede Bay Sailing Club has made its annual Lobster Regatta — held in early January — the centrepiece of its calendar, a fixture documented as far back as 1987 and still drawing fleets of catamarans, monohulls and sailboards into Lacepede Bay. The clubhouse stands on the foreshore at Marine Parade, listed by the Kingston District Council at number 94, about a kilometre south of the caravan park and barely a hundred metres from a sandy beach that runs, almost unbelievably, some 180 kilometres from Cape Jaffa to the Murray Mouth. The club holds Australian Sailing affiliation in Band 22, the smallest of the fee bands, with the SAcommunity directory recording Yachting South Australia as its parent body, and it holds its own entry in the Geoscience Australia place-name register — a club literally on the map. When exactly it was founded, no available source records, but newspaper evidence shows it well established by the mid-1980s, with a commodore, a vice-commodore and a full trophy presentation at the 1987 regatta. The club markets itself today

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Dinghy/Trailer sailer in Sheffield, TAS.

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Every Easter, a small town sixteen kilometres south of Swan Hill turns into one of Victorian sailing's busiest addresses. Caravans and tents fill the grassed parklands around Lake Boga Yacht Club, catamarans rig along the shoreline, and for four days the lake hosts a regatta that Australian Sailing has described as one of the largest and best-run in the state. Competitors mostly camp beside their boats, wandering the park with a beer or a coffee before and after sailing — the social fabric of the event is as much a drawcard as the racing. The rest of the year, Lake Boga is a classic inland off-the-beach club, sailing dinghies and catamarans most Sundays from mid-September to the end of April. The regular classes tell the story of Australian small-boat sailing across the decades: Micron, Mirror, Paper Tiger, Fireball, Impulse, Sabre, Pacer, Arrow and Mosquito all appear on the club's list. The membership travels well, too — the club records that its sailors compete Australia-wide with plenty of success, and it has hosted numerous National and State titles for various classes over the years. Positioned roughly 300 kilometres north of Melbourne in the state's North West, the club dr

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Yacht Club (mixed) in Barmera, SA.

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Dinghy in Lake Cargelligo, NSW.

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Dinghy/Trailer sailer in Lake Clarendon, QLD.

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Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club makes its home at Boreen Point, on the lake's western shore, in the Noosa hinterland on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. It is one of Australian sailing's genuine survivors: Australian Sailing's 2023 Club in Focus feature noted that, established in 1946, the club has kept the same easy-going spirit for more than 75 years — and the club is now documenting its story for an 80th anniversary planned for February 2026. Only a handful of Australian sailing clubs can point to eight unbroken decades on the same stretch of water. Everything here runs on volunteer labour. The club states that all on- and off-water operations are handled by members on a volunteer basis, and its membership exceeds 300 — a figure that has roughly doubled since the 175 members recorded at the 50th anniversary in 1996, with junior training cited as the driver of that growth. The sailing is lake sailing of a particular kind. Cootharaba is Queensland's largest coastal lake, a broad, shallow, tidal sheet of water in the Noosa River system, and the club credits the lake's predominant sea breezes with producing flat-water conditions it rates among the finest anywhere. The regatta calendar is

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Dinghy in Eppalock, VIC.

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Dinghy in Windang, NSW.