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Where the Dawesville Cut meets the Harvey Estuary, on the waterway's southeast corner, a young club has built a sailing culture around two craft most organisations would never pair: racing yachts and outrigger canoes. Port Bouvard Yacht Club bills itself as a club "for Sail and Outrigger Canoe," and it operates not as a standalone body but as a division of the Port Bouvard Recreation and Sporting Club Incorporated, sharing the broader community facility at 1 Thisbe Drive, Dawesville. The geography places it twenty kilometres south of Mandurah and about eighty kilometres south of Perth, on the foreshore of the Mandurah estuary system, with the clubhouse outlook sweeping down the Harvey Estuary — panoramic, in the club's own assessment. The Australian Flying Fifteen class association dates the club's establishment to the late 1990s, making it one of the younger sailing organisations in Western Australia, though the exact founding year does not appear in the public record. Seven Flying Fifteens are registered at the club, giving it a meaningful stake in that classic keelboat class, and the fleet mix extends well beyond it. Office bearers listed by the club have included Commodore Kevi

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Mixed in Dongara, WA.

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Mixed in Port Hedland, WA.

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Mixed in Port Kennedy, WA.

Sailing club

On Wickham Back Beach in the Pilbara, within sight of the conveyors and ship loaders of Rio Tinto's Cape Lambert iron ore port, a volunteer-only yacht club has kept recreational sailing alive since 1973. Port Walcott Yacht Club Inc, a not-for-profit organisation, describes itself as a volunteer-only operation providing facilities for water sports — sailing and kayaking above all — and the description is literal: there is no paid staff, and visitors' reviews praise the hospitality while gently warning that opening times depend on who is available to unlock the doors. When the doors do open, the club becomes a social anchor for the coast between Wickham and Point Samson. Its volunteer-run fish and chips have their own following, with Fish and Chips Sundays drawing locals to the marina-side setting, and the club's Facebook page carries the running updates that substitute for a formal calendar. The club also holds a Western Australian liquor licence, underscoring its role as the district's waterfront gathering place. Some of the biggest days on its calendar are not sailing days at all: the club plays host to the weigh-in and presentation evening for the Pilbara Fishing Extravaganza, de

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Club marina on the sheltered southern side of Princess Royal Harbour offering small, large and catamaran pen hire, club moorings, hardstand boat storage and undercover dinghy storage, with visiting boats accommodated at a nightly rate.

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Mixed in Rockingham, WA.

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Mixed in Rottnest Island, WA.

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Founded in 1896 on Freshwater Bay, Peppermint Grove, and a founding member of the International Council of Yacht Clubs, RFBYC operates a fixed-pile marina and swing moorings in Freshwater and Mosman Bays accommodating approximately 400 vessels. It has a fuel wharf dispensing diesel and premium unleaded petrol and a hardstand maintaining boats up to about 14 m.

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Yacht Club (mixed) in Crawley, WA.

Sailing club

Ask the City of Rockingham's heritage officers which sailing club came first in their district and the archival record points to a single address: 243 Safety Bay Road, where Safety Bay Yacht Club has occupied the same foreshore site since 1947. Community directories describe it as the Rockingham area's oldest yacht club, and its three-level clubhouse — boatshed at the lower level, bar and clubroom above, a lookout tower scanning Warnbro Sound from the top — is entered on the WA State Heritage Office inHerit database and the City's 2025 Local Heritage Survey. In its postwar prime, the heritage record says, the club hosted regattas and State Titles that put more than 120 boats onto the water at once. Today the picture is harder to read. The club's former website domain is parked, no active social-media presence surfaced during research, and its current sailing activity remains unverified — yet Australian Sailing's affiliation fee schedule still carries Safety Bay as a WA affiliated club (category B), and the City's recent archival work treats the site as a continuing sports and community venue. What can be said with certainty is that this ranks among Western Australia's most thorough

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Dinghy/Multihull in Scarborough, WA.

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Mixed in Denham, WA.

Sailing club

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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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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Every Australian sailing club keeps a favourite story about itself; Sun City Yacht Club's happens to involve the America's Cup. The club was founded at Two Rocks, roughly sixty kilometres north of Perth, on 11 November 1974, and its best-known founding member was Alan Bond — the entrepreneur who would go on to assemble the Australia II team that lifted the Cup for Australia in 1983. Before that triumph, Bond had originally planned to challenge out of Two Rocks itself, and the waters off Two Rocks and Yanchep watched Southern Cross, trial partner Gretel and Australia I train and compete through the defeated campaigns of 1977 and 1980. Half a century on, the club is very much alive: an Australian Sailing affiliated club and an accredited Discover Sailing Centre operating from the Two Rocks marina, it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a White Party on 23 November 2024. A February 2024 news feature — syndicated nationally after a multimedia journalism project between Yanchep News Online and Google Australia — portrayed a club focused on introducing newcomers to sailing, inside a community agitating for heritage recognition of its extraordinary coastline. One research quirk deser

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Large club marina on the Swan River at East Fremantle with 236 wet berths, a licensed clubhouse and marina security. A replacement floating Jetty 5 with wave attenuation was approved in 2023, with provision for floating dry docks across berths.

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Sailing and social club on the Rockingham foreshore of Cockburn Sound offering members a mooring area, racing, training and hospitality amenities in protected waters.

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Mixed in Two Rocks, WA.

Sailing club

By its own account — and no counterexample has yet been produced — Walpole Yacht Club is the only yacht club in Australia sited inside a marine park. The club stands at Coalmine Beach on the Nornalup Inlet, on Western Australia's remote south coast, surrounded by the karri, red flowering gum and peppermint forest of the Walpole-Nornalup National Park; sailors, the club reports, reckon the spot among the top ten sailing locations on the planet. That is a bold claim for a small club, but the setting argues the case unassisted: two connected inlets fed by the Frankland and Deep rivers, offering sheltered wilderness water that canoeists have long celebrated for its untouched character. The club itself is an Australian Sailing affiliated club in fee category B, serving the Walpole, Manjimup and Denmark shire communities and encouraging swimming, canoeing, fishing and power boating among individuals and families alongside the sailing itself. Its signature fixture, the In the Trees Regatta, takes over Coalmine Beach on the Labour Day long weekend each March — 149 boats across nine divisions turned up in 2018, and more than a hundred dinghies again in 2024. For a club founded in the late 1

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Windsurfing, WA.