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Clubs Listed : 62

Albert Park Yacht Club —- Visited: 174 Times

South Melbourne

Listing id: 10965

Our History Albert Park Yacht Club is the oldest continuing inland yacht club in Victoria. We’ve been around since 1871. Albert Park Yacht Club offers a safe and convenient place to sail year round in the heart of the city. Website

Albury Wodonga Yacht Club —- Visited: 96 Times

Listing id: 10966

Located on the border between NSW and Victoria, the club offers great facilities for hosting Regattas from State to National Championships. Coaching and sail training is run throughout the season and is open for all age groups and levels of experience. Website

Angelsea Motor Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 10995

Angelsea Motor Yacht Club is located at Point Roadknight Boatramp, Melba Parade, Angelsea VIC – PH# 0419 296464.

Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 83 Times

Listing id: 11007

Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron may be reached thru PO Box 45, Black Rock, VIC 3193 – Ph# 03 9589 5156 or email [email protected]. Website

Beaumaris Yacht Club —- Visited: 132 Times

Listing id: 10968

Beaumaris Yacht Club (BYC) was established on the Ricketts Point foreshore in 1950. The club was started by a group of local sailors who were keen to begin their organised sailing in the local area. Website

Bendigo Yacht Club —- Visited: 80 Times

Lake Eppalock

Listing id: 10892

Bendigo Yacht Club is located at 45 Sunset Drive, Lake Eppalock VIC 3551 – Ph# 03 5439 2552 or email at [email protected]. Website

Black Rock Yacht Club —- Visited: 125 Times

Listing id: 10969

Black Rock Yacht Club is located at Half Moon Bay, Black Rock, VIC 3193 – Ph# 03 9598 0570 or email at [email protected]. Website

Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 0 Times

Blairgowrie

Listing id: 10894

Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron is located at 2900 Point Nepean Road, Blairgowrie, VIC 3942 – PH# 03 5988 8453.

Chelsea Yacht Club —- Visited: 97 Times

Listing id: 10971

Chelsea Yacht Club may be reached thru PO Box 4, Chealsea, VIC 3106 – Ph# 03 9772 2854 or email at [email protected]. Website

Colac Yacht Club —- Visited: 53 Times

Listing id: 10902

Colac Yacht Club may be reached thru PO Box 308, Colac, VIC 3250 – Ph# 03 52311180 or email at [email protected]. Website

Cowes Yacht Club —- Visited: 79 Times

Listing id: 10973

The club was established in the late 50’s by a group of local residents interested in developing water sports of all types. The members are both local people and holiday residents from all walks of life. A number of members are second-generation members of the club, having become junior members with their families, and then bringing their own families into the club. Website

Davey’s Bay Yacht Club —- Visited: 87 Times

Listing id: 10905

The club is located off Davey’s Bay Road, Mt. Eliza, Victoria, Australia and is accessed by a short walk along the cliff top. Even on days of very light winds, a sea breeze normally pops up late in the afternoon allowing us to complete a race. Website

Docklands Yacht Club —- Visited: 141 Times

Listing id: 11003

Docklands Yacht Club is situated overlooking Victoria Harbour with sweeping views of the Melbourne City skyline and the fast developing Docklands precinct. Sailing is from the 60 metre pontoon at Shed 2, North Wharf Road, where the club facilities are located. Website

Esperance Bay Yacht Club —- Visited: 68 Times

Listing id: 11020

The Esperance Bay Yacht Club is a dynamic club committed to the enjoyment of sailing and ensuring that the sport of sailing is available to everyone. Website

Flinders Yacht Club —- Visited: 84 Times

Listing id: 11000

On 27 October 2020, 37 people interested in forming a club to ‘foster interest in boating in Flinders’ met in the recreation room of the Flinders Caravan Park and founded the Flinders Yacht Club. Website

Frankston Yacht Club —- Visited: 116 Times

Listing id: 10908

Geelong Trailable Yacht Club —- Visited: 60 Times

North Geelong

Listing id: 10911

Geelong Trailable Yacht Club may be reached thru P.O Box 899, Geelong Victoria 3220 – Ph# 0408 546193 or email at [email protected]. Website

Gippsland Lakes Yacht Club —- Visited: 58 Times

East Gippsland

Listing id: 10975

On the 19th January 1937 24 people attended a meeting convened by John Kingswell Lloyd at the Soldiers Memorial Hall in Bairnsdale with the purpose of forming a motor boat and sailing club. After it was agreed to proceed, Robert Simpson moved that the name of the club be the Gippland Lakes Yacht Club, and Ralph Sinclair Thomson was elected as its President. Website

Hartley TS 18/21 Yacht Club —- Visited: 75 Times

Listing id: 10976

The Hartley TS 18 – 21 Yacht Club is devoted to the Richard Hartley designed TS18 and TS 21 Trailer Sailers. We are also devoted to having a fun and interesting time on and off the water. Website

Hastings Yacht Club —- Visited: 90 Times

Listing id: 11001

Hastings Yacht Club may be reached thru Josie Hamilton – Ph# 0416 003261 or email at [email protected]. Website

Hidden Harbour Motor Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 104 Times

Port Phillip

Listing id: 11008

Hidden Harbour Motor Yacht Squadron is based in Port Phillip (Victoria, Australia). We are an independent boating club with members that come together to enjoy a variety of boat related activities including fishing, cruising, education, or simply “messing around in boats” in a family friendly environmen. Website

Hobsons Bay Yacht Club —- Visited: 111 Times

Williamstown

Listing id: 10917

Visitors to Hobson’s Bay Yacht Club will find our club right in the heart of Williamstown. The club is very close to the shops, entertainment and social life as well as enjoying fantastic views of the city and the West Gate Bridge. Website

Indented Head Yacht Club —- Visited: 58 Times

Listing id: 10977

Our Club welcomes both visitors and new members and looks forward to supplying training and racing to satisfy all junior and senior sailors for the next season. Website

Lake Boga Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 10919

Lake Boga Yacht Club is located at Murray Valley Highway, Lake Boga, VIC 3584 – PH# 03 5037 2747.

Lake Wellington Yacht Club —- Visited: 52 Times

Listing id: 10979

Founded 1961. Home of the Marlay Point Overnight Race. Excellent sailing and accommodation conditions. Suitable venue for championship events. Website

Latrobe Valley Yacht Club —- Visited: 60 Times

Listing id: 10921

The Latrobe Valley Yacht Club is located on the western shore of the Hazelwood Power Station cooling ponds. The Club is surrounded by large grassed areas, picnic and BBQ facilities, aquatic hall, accessible toilets and camping facilities provided by the LaTrobe City Council. Website

Loch Sport Boat Club —- Visited: 48 Times

Listing id: 10980

Loch Sport is located on the southern shore of Lake Victoria. It also has direct access to the Ninety Mile Beach and is surrounded by National and Coastal Parkland. Website

McCrae Yacht Club —- Visited: 79 Times

Listing id: 10981

McCrae Yacht Club is one of the most active and well respected off-the-beach yacht clubs in Victoria, with excellent facilities and a strong and happy membership which include a number of past and present State and National champions. Website

Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club —- Visited: 78 Times

Listing id: 10998

The Melbourne Trailable Yacht Club Inc (formally Western Trailable Yacht Club and before that the Western TS Group) is a family orientated sailing club formed on the 28th of June 1973. Website

Merricks Yacht Club —- Visited: 68 Times

Merricks Beach

Listing id: 10926

Merricks Yacht Club was founded in 1964 as a small yard on the foreshore for the many enthusiastic fishermen and sailors in the holiday township of Merricks Beach. Website

Metung Yacht Racing Club —- Visited: 52 Times

Listing id: 10982

The Metung Yacht Club has been operating for more than 40 years and welcomes all visitors, especially sailors, who come to Metung. – Ph# 03 51562315 / 03 98221968. Website

Mordialloc Motor Yacht Club —- Visited: 113 Times

Listing id: 10932

The MMYC was established in 1925 and members in those days sailed their boats out of the creek into the bay. MMYC was one of the earliest clubs to be founded around the shores of Port Phillip. You can see early pictures of the club and activities displayed in the club house today. Website

Mt Martha Yacht Club —- Visited: 98 Times

Listing id: 10984

Mt Martha Yacht Club is an off the beach club. It is situated on the Esplanade Mt Martha with a view and a swimming beach to die for. The Club uses Sparrows for sail training and competes vigorously in the annual inter- galactic!! Website

Newhaven Yacht Squadron Inc. —- Visited: 78 Times

Listing id: 11002

Newhaven Yacht Squadron has over 300 power boats from Runabouts to Cruisers on our register. We organise many regular events for power boaties. These include boat handling & safety, Summer and Winter fishing competitions and cruising in company. Website

Noelex Yacht Association of Australia Inc. —- Visited: 52 Times

Narre Warren

Listing id: 10985

Noelex Yacht Association of Australia Inc. may be reached thru c/- 22 Harries Court Narre Warren North 3804 Vic – Ph# 03 9796 8269 or email at [email protected]. Website

Parkdale Yacht Club —- Visited: 114 Times

Listing id: 10986

Parkdale Yacht Club is known as the ‘friendliest club on the bay’ and proudly lives up to its name. The sailing and training within the club is of high standards and is available on sundays Sep – April as well as twilight sailing on Thursday nights. Website

Patterson River Motor Boat Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 11009

Patterson River Motor Boat Club may be reached thru PO Box 505, Patterson Lakes VIC 3197. Email [email protected]

Point Leo Boat Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 11011

Point Leo Boat Club may be reached thru PO Box 393, Shoreham VIC 3916.

Port Albert Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Port Albert

Listing id: 10935

Port Albert Yacht Club is located at Bay Street, Port Albert, VIC 3971 – PH# 03 5183 2362.

Port Melbourne Yacht Club —- Visited: 104 Times

Port Melbourne

Listing id: 10937

PMYC aims to be a leading club for off-the-beach sailing on Port Phillip Bay, and relies on its members to contribute to the continuing development and operation of the Club. This involvement promotes the friendly culture of the Club and ensures responsiveness to members’ needs. Website

Portland Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 10939

Portland Yacht Club is located at Lee Breakwater Road, Portland VIC 3305 – PH# 03 5523 1899.

Queenscliff Lonsdale Yacht Club —- Visited: 78 Times

Queenscliff

Listing id: 10989

QLYC is a family friendly sailing club. Club members and visitors sail a variety of craft: dinghies, trailer sailers, small and large keelboats, and couta boats. The club has some highly experienced racing sailors, who are enthusiastic and very encouraging to new members. QLYC is affiliated to Yachting Australia and races are conducted according to its rules. Website

Ranelagh Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 61 Times

Listing id: 11005

The Ranelagh Club was established in 1927 as a consequence of the subdivision of the Ranelagh estate. Originally, membership of this club was extremely exclusive one had to be an owner of land within the Ranelagh estate. Website

Rhyll Yacht Club —- Visited: 59 Times

Listing id: 10941

The Rhyll Yacht Club (RYC) has an extensive social program that works hand in hand with the racing calendar. Social events are both in line with racing events and Public Holidays such as New Years, Australia Day and Easter. Website

Rosebud Yacht Club —- Visited: 70 Times

Listing id: 10990

RYC aims to be a family-friendly club for off-the-beach sailing on Port Phillip Bay, and relies on its members to contribute to the continuing development and operation of the Club. Website

Royal Brighton Yacht Club —- Visited: 88 Times

Middle Brighton

Listing id: 10942

Royal Brighton Yacht Club is located at 253 The Esplanade , Middle Brighton VIC 3186 – PH# 03 9592 3092 or email at [email protected]. Website

Royal Geelong Yacht Club —- Visited: 58 Times

Listing id: 10964

The Royal Geelong Yacht Club is recognised as one of Australia’s premier Yacht Clubs and boasts a proud history that stretches 150 years. Website

Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron —- Visited: 99 Times

Listing id: 10944

The Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron , with a history of over 120 years, is one of the oldest yacht clubs in Victoria with a long list of historical firsts. Situated at St. Kilda in close proximity to Melbourne central business district, it is regarded as the centre of aquatic events in Victoria. Website

Royal Victorian Motor Yacht Club —- Visited: 0 Times

Listing id: 11010

Royal Victorian Motor Yacht Club may be reached thru 260 Nelson Place, Williamstown VIC 3016 – PH# 03 9397 5036. Email [email protected]

Royal Yacht Club of Victoria —- Visited: 109 Times

Listing id: 10991

Records show that the Club is undoubtedly Australia’s senior yacht club and as such is steeped in decades of yachting history and tradition. Website

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Merricks is a rural locality on the Mornington Peninsula, overlooking Western Port Bay and facing Phillip Island. It is 13 km south-west of Hastings and 65 km south of Melbourne.

In 1840 Henry and Alfred Meyrick took up the Coolort (later Coolart) pastoral run which extended west from Crib Point. It appears that the expression ‘going down to Meyrick’s’ became the basis for the later place name, with a slight change of spelling.

In common with much of the central and southern Mornington Peninsula, Merricks was settled by farm selectors during the 1860s. A Union church was opened toward the end of that decade, but little other than farms occupied the landscape. A post office was opened in 1910.

In 1921 a branch railway line from Bittern was opened via Merricks to Red Hill. Coincidental or not, a school was opened in the same year and a general store was opened in another year or two. Part of the Coolart estate along the beach was subdivided during the 1920s and a few houses were built at Merricks Beach.

Merricks has retained a generally rural environment, including the grazing property Minto. There are several wineries. The general store (1927) has retained an authentic appearance and the nearby station reserve is public open space with a walking trail to Red Hill. The railway closed in 1954 and the school closed in 1950 when the Red Hill consolidated opened.

Merricks Beach has mainly secluded holiday and retirement homes. The foreshore reserve and beach include a yacht club (1964).

Further afield is the rural area of Merricks North. Its school had a life of 13 years, closing in 1950 and its post office ran from 1926-76. There are seven Mornington Peninsula wineries in Merricks North and its public hall is in Bittern-Dromana Road.

Census populations have been:

Merricks’ population was included in Balnarring in 2006 and Red Hill South in 2011.

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For the first time in more than eight years, Huntington Beach voters will seat a new city clerk when the general election is held in November.

Current City Clerk Robin Estanislau is retiring, and two candidates — Regina Blankenhorn and Lisa Lane Barnes — are vying for a four-year term.

The first couple of weeks of the campaign have already proven contentious.

Barnes hired an attorney to challenge Blankenhorn’s ballot designation of “city executive coordinator.” Her team argued that this was misleading, since Blankenhorn held that position in the city of Tustin — not in Huntington Beach.

“The ballot designation is very important, and when you use the word ‘city’ … it implies that you work in that city,” Barnes said. “Your ballot designation cannot be misleading, and that is misleading.”

The issue did not require litigation. On Monday, Estanislau agreed to reject Blankenhorn’s initial ballot designation and change it to her second alternative “municipal executive coordinator.”

Blankenhorn said she respected the decision.

“Executive coordinator is my job title, and I work for a city,” she said. “I thought it made sense. They said it was misleading, that people would think I was appointed to something or that I worked in Huntington Beach. I was like, everyone Googled me already and found out I worked for Tustin.”

For the record, Barnes’ ballot designation lists her as “businesswoman/Huntington Beach commissioner.”

Blankenhorn has been an executive coordinator for Tustin for 11 years, providing support to its city manager and city council in their dealings with the public and outside agencies, including media, while ensuring that policies and procedures are adhered to by the council.

A 25-year resident of Huntington Beach, she was previously an instructor in the Coastline Regional Occupational Program. She’s currently the chairperson for the Enterprise Corp. for the Coast Community College District, a for-profit corporation that operates the swap meets at Orange Coast and Golden West colleges.

Blankenhorn, who said she was listed as No Party Preference for years before recently registering as a Democrat, believes her experience in municipal government sets her apart.

“I want to make sure that a person who’s in there is experienced, because that person is going to be a department head and they’re going to have to lead that department and staff,” she said. “It’s not just a matter of conducting city council meetings. The city clerk is the elections official, and they’re also the records keeper.”

Among Blankenhorn’s endorsements are the city clerk of Laguna Beach, Ann Marie McKay.

Blankenhorn said that when she found out that Barnes was the only one running at the time, she decided to throw her hat in the ring.

“I didn’t know her name,” Blankenhorn said. “I just knew someone was running that was a Realtor in town and had absolutely no municipal government experience. I thought that was wrong. As a resident myself, I would not want to have an inexperienced person in that position. So that’s why I decided to run.”

Barnes countered that she directly serves the City Council in her current role as a Community and Library Services Commissioner , a position to which she was appointed by Councilman Tony Strickland in 2022.

Her background is is business. She said she previously worked for a global chemical manufacturing company before settling in as a local real estate agent two years ago.

“It’s always been one of my goals to be deeply involved with my community,” said Barnes, who has lived in Huntington Beach for a dozen years. “When I was working corporately, I did a lot of travel, and that really prohibited spending as much time as I would like to within our community. When that changed and I became a Realtor, it was a great opportunity for me to really anchor myself in the city and just become involved.”

She sees becoming the city clerk as an extension of that. As to Blankenhorn’s contention that she is unqualified, she noted that she’s proud to be on a commission that advises the City Council on what to do with Huntington Beach’s 78 parks, five libraries and one golf course.

Barnes said she has conservative values. She has endorsements from the Republican Party of Orange County, Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark, Mayor Pro Tem Pat Burns, City Atty. Michael Gates and state Sen. Janet Nguyen, whose District 36 includes Huntington Beach.

“I’m embedded in the fabric of this community,” Barnes said. “I’ve never met [Blankenhorn], I’ve never seen her at a City Council meeting. I’ve never seen her at a city event in Huntington Beach, because she’s in Tustin.”

As the conductor of municipal elections, the city clerk could see increased importance in Surf City in future years.

In March, Huntington Beach voters approved Measure A , which means the city could require voter identification, provide more in-person voting locations and monitor ballot drop-boxes starting in 2026. Weeks later, California Atty. General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber filed a lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court , arguing that Measure A was illegal and preempted by state law.

Blankenhorn said she’d be ready to go on day one if elected.

“When I don’t know something, I’m going to have my staff to help me, guide me and direct me,” she said. “And I’ll have other city clerks that I can turn to. I know city clerks.”

Barnes also believes she is qualified, adding that the livelihood and well-being of the community were important to her.

“When I became involved, I loved it,” she said. “I absolutely loved it, and I wanted to do more for our community … I believe I am the best candidate.”

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