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Dinghy/Multihull in Runaway Bay, QLD.

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On its own website Humpybong Yacht Club bills itself as the leading off-the-beach sailing club serving north Brisbane and the southern Sunshine Coast — and in 2023 Australian Sailing handed that claim external weight, naming Humpybong the first-ever national Club of the Year winner in Category B, the small-club division, at the 2023 awards after it had first taken out the Queensland title. The clubhouse stands next to Woody Point's public boat ramp, a short stroll west of the jetty on the corner of Hornibrook Esplanade and Oxley Avenue, looking over Bramble Bay on the Redcliffe Peninsula. Few small clubs anywhere in the country can point to a comparable combination of location, program range and national recognition. It is an unapologetically grassroots operation with an unusual breadth of programs: junior and adult learn-to-sail courses, an active SheSails contingent, an association with Deaf Sailing Queensland, a famously low-cost "Sh*t-box Laser" entry point for anyone with an old backyard boat, and a women's and girls' regatta that stands alone in south-east Queensland. The club's stated values — fun, integrity, community, sustainability and respect — read like a summary of ho

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Dinghy/Multihull in Innisfail, QLD.

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Mixed in Jacobs Well, QLD.

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Mixed in Karumba, QLD.

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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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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/Trailer sailer in Mount Isa, QLD.

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Dinghy/Trailer sailer in Kurwongbah, QLD.

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Dinghy/Trailer sailer in Moogerah, QLD.

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Very few Australian sailing clubs can claim an entire reservoir to themselves. Lake Samsonvale Water Sports Association, known to members simply as LSWSA, enjoys exactly that privilege on North Pine Dam, a drinking-water storage in the Samford Valley roughly 45 minutes from the Brisbane CBD. Because the reservoir is managed by Seqwater, the region's bulk water authority, one designated zone of the lake is set aside exclusively for association members, and neither public sailing nor motorised boating is permitted anywhere on the water. The outcome is a sheltered, uncrowded expanse of freshwater that the club promotes, on its own account, as Brisbane's nearest venue for lake sailing and water sports. Established in 1976, the same year the dam was finished, the association has spent decades shaping around 4.5 hectares of the southern bank into a grassed, tree-shaded base with a covered clubhouse deck, showers, wood-fired barbecues and direct water access off the lawn. It presents itself as a family-oriented organisation that welcomes sailboats of any class alongside kayaks, canoes and windsurfers, and its calendar blends relaxed competition days for trailer boats, skiffs and multihul

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Dinghy/Trailer sailer in Somerset Dam, QLD.

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Some sailing clubs measure their history in trophies; Lourdes Hill College Sailing Club can measure its in boats built by schoolgirls. The club's first craft, a timber 125-class dinghy named ENID, was constructed in 1977 by teacher Enid Ginn and her students at a cost to the school of about $800, and the boat still rests in the club shed carrying sail number 613 on the Australian 125 National Association register. Two decades later, school sailors were back in the workshop helping builder Kenny Webber complete the fleet dinghies No Man's Land and Leeward Behaviour in August 1999, hulls 3101 and 3102 on the same register, which also records Xhiller8 and Roche Racer against the club's Hawthorne address. The club is the sailing arm of Lourdes Hill College, a Catholic independent school for girls established by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan back in 1916 and sitting on Hawthorne Road, on the bank of the Brisbane River opposite New Farm Park. The college educates girls from Years 5 to 12, with enrolment above 1,200 students; the Queensland Department of Education recorded 1,139 students across Years 7 to 12 at July 2023. Sailing holds a place among the school's representative sports

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Mackay Sailing Club runs its sport from two very different front yards. The dinghy section, billed as Off The Beach, launches from the sand at Shoal Point on Mackay's Northern Beaches, while the yacht section operates out of Mackay Harbour, from where crews head out to island anchorages and offshore race starts. The club pitches itself to everyone from veteran keelboat sailors to juniors heading out in their first Sabot and those who simply love a quiet day on the water — and its program list backs that spread, running from Learn to Sail through Race Training and Club Racing to Adventure Sailing. The incorporated club, reachable by post at PO Box 8821, Mount Pleasant, maintains an active online presence and invites prospective members to come and meet the sailors on the beach during dinghy days. Its signature fixture is the annual Mackay Festival of Sails: published results survive from the 2021 edition, and a 2026 running has already been flagged for April on the club's calendar. That 2021 festival drew Lasers, Laser Radials and Laser 4.7s in the monohull divisions, Arrows, Taipan 4.9 catamarans and foiling Moths among the multihulls, and Optimists, Sabots and Open Skiffs in the

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Mackay Yacht Club occupies one of the more enviable clubrooms on the central Queensland coast: a clubhouse on Breakwater Access Road at the marina's southern end, at Mackay Harbour, looking out over the same water where its race finish lines have been drawn. The club appears as Mackay Yacht Club Inc on Yachting Australia's affiliated-club listings for Queensland, yet its present-day profile is an unusual one. Its long-standing website, listed by the Queensland Cruising Yacht Club among reciprocal clubs, refused connection at the time of research, suggesting the club's web presence may have lapsed, and no current office bearers, membership figures or active social channels could be verified. What the record does show, clearly, is a club that punched well above its weight in offshore racing administration. Mackay Yacht Club co-conducted the 530-nautical-mile Southport to Mackay ocean race alongside the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and Southport Yacht Club, an event described in 2004 by CYCA's Offshore magazine as the longest race on the east Australian coast at that time. It also co-organised the annual Yeppoon to Mackay Ocean Yacht Race with the Capricornia Cruising Yacht Club,

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Mixed in Nelly Bay, QLD.

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Dinghy in Manly, QLD.

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Getting to Maroochy Sailing Club requires a short walk — there is no other way in. The clubhouse sits on Chambers Island in the Maroochy River, reached by a pedestrian-only footbridge from Bradman Avenue in Maroochydore, and the club reckons that absence of road frontage makes it unique. Volunteer-run and family-oriented, it sails under the motto Friendship through Sailing, and the club estimates around 2,000 people have held membership across its lifetime. Formed in 1959, this is the original organised sailing body on the Maroochy River and appears on Yachting Australia's affiliated-club listings as Maroochy Sailing Club Inc, Maroochydore. It is sometimes written up as Maroochydore Sailing Club — an Optimist sailor was listed under exactly that name at the 2024 Zhik Youth Sail Queensland — but it should not be confused with the Mooloolaba Yacht Club, which runs keelboat and offshore racing on the coast, nor with any other Sunshine Coast body. Commodore Norm Richards heads the 2025–26 committee, with Steve Cook as Rear Commodore (Sailing), Gärd Saunders as Secretary and David Thomson as Treasurer. The club carries Australian Sailing Discover Sailing Training Centre certification,

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Sailing Club in Maroochydore, QLD.

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Some clubs take their name from the water they sail; this one carries the name of a city roughly thirty kilometres from its launching beach. Maryborough Sailing Club is a volunteer-run, family-oriented dinghy club whose racing has unfolded on Hervey Bay, off the sand at Scarness, since 1929 by its own account. The title is less a map reference than a historical souvenir, kept from an era when the regional city gave the club its identity even though the sailing happened down the coast. Affiliated with Australian Sailing, the club keeps a deliberately modest footprint: a stretch of beach, a fleet of small boats and a calendar built around families learning and racing together. Club Marine's trailerboat guide to the region pairs it with the neighbouring Hervey Bay Sailing Club, describing the two as the hubs for trailable dinghies and catamarans along the strip between Scarness and Torquay. Continuity is the striking theme. The club's Easter regatta reached its 84th edition in 2015, a run few sporting bodies in Queensland can match, and the organisation has outlived its own clubhouse: after flooding in early 2022 the ageing building was demolished, yet the sailing never stopped. For v

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Dinghy in Mission Beach, QLD.