Membership Renewals for 2026-27 Sailing Year

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Membership Renewals for the coming Sailing Year will be progressively emailed to all members from the past Season over the next fortnight. The Invoices will be based on your previous Membership category unless there is a category change eg age-related, expiry of Complimentary Membership etc.

Not joining this year? Just let us know, and your Invoice will be cancelled! All outstanding Invoices will be cancelled in September!

Where Boat Storage at the Club has been approved, the invoice for this will be included with your Membership Re-newal. Boat storage applications should be directed to our Clubhouse Captain, John!

You are also welcome to use the Membership links on our Membership page.

For legal reasons, is important that your Membership is current before you participate in Club events! (NOTE: Tackers Courses include their own Participant Membership, so do not require Club Membership. Green Fleet does require Club Membership)

Temporary Memberships (Sail Pass) are available, but are limited to 3 occasions!

The Club can assist with Membership by agreeing to a payment plan to spread regular payments over a mutually convenient period - Contact Peter , Membership Officer for details!

The Club also accepts Queensland State Government Play On Vouchers as part-payment for Youth Members! These can be used for Membership and/or Training activities! Round 1 opens at the end of July!

Amy Queries? Please contact Peter with a phone number for a call back!

Tackers and Training

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Although our Club Sailing takes a break over winter, our Youth Learn-to-Sail continues to operate. Over the first week Winter School Holidays a 4 day Tackers 1 Course for 7 to 12 year olds saw a dozen youngsters venture into sailing for the first time. Planning has commenced for a Tackers 1 Course in the last week of the Spring School Holidays. Register your interest on our Tackers page for early notification/registration.

Coming up over the next two months on Sundays are a Tackers 3 Course for those who have completed the earlier Courses (sold out), and a Green Fleet Training Course for those youngsters looking at enhancing their skills and joining Course Racing - still some vacancies! Further details on our Tackers and Other Courses pages!

If you are interested in any of the Tackers Courses, make sure you are registered on the appropriate Expression of Interest list on our Tackers webpage.

NEW SAILING SEASON 2026 -27

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Our new 2026-27 Sailing Year has Arrived.

Following the Club’s Annual General Meeting and Presentations from 2025- 26, there have been a quite a few changes to our Club’s Management Committee ( listed on our Contact Page). Both long serving Secretary, Gard Saunders, and Treasurer, David Thomson, have stepped down, as has Commodore Norm Richards. We thank them for their service to the Club, and to Sailing, for many years and know that will be sorely missed!

We welcome a number of new members to our Management Committee and thank them for their offer to help our Club.

Currently, positions are being transitioned from former Committee Members to the in-coming crew. With different hands on the Tiller and Mainsheet, we may not respond as quickly for a few weeks as we settle in for the 2026-27 voyage!

Our new Membership Year has also just commenced, and we will shortly be welcoming your memberships for the coming Sailing Year. Plans are to continue our regular Club Sunday afternoon sailing from around the end of August, and also continue our popular Tackers and Green Fleet Learn-to-Sail programs.

Play-On Vouchers

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Over the past few years, quite a number of our young members have used Fair Play/ Play On Vouchers to help fund their Sailing Membership of our Club , or participate in various Tackers Courses!

The Program has been renamed to “Play On” Vouchers, available from the Department of Sports and Recreation, Queensland. Valued at $200 each, they can be used by eligible children to assist with Membership and/or Training/Coaching costs. The Vouchers should become available from27 July.

Maroochy Sailing Club is an approved Sports Provider and accepts Play On Vouchers to help pay for for Youth Membership and Training Courses including the popular Tackers Learn-to-Sail Programs.

Further details re Play-On VOUCHERS (link)

GILL YOUTH WEEK COACHING

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I have been requested to let all our Youth Members know of the coaching activities at the  Gill Queensland Youth Week in early July.  Maroochy Members who have participated in previous years have found it a very beneficial experience!

Hi There,

I hope you're well.

I wanted to reach out and let you know that registrations are currently open for the Gill QLD Youth Week Coaching Clinic, being hosted by RQYS from 6–7 July.

The clinic is designed to provide junior and youth sailors from across Queensland with additional coaching opportunities during the school holidays. Sailors will have the chance to train alongside motivated athletes from other clubs while working with an experienced coaching team across a range of classes, leading into our Youth regatta towards the end of the week. 

We would greatly appreciate it if you could share the event with any sailors and families, within your club who may be interested. I have also attached a poster 🙂

More information and registrations can be found here:
https://www.revolutionise.com.au/rqys/events/355052

Thank you for your support, and we hope to see some of your sailors at RQYS in July!!

Thank you,


Alanna Field

On-Water Coordinator

RQYS Sailing Academy

 

Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron
578 Royal Esplanade
PO Box 5021 MANLY QLD 4179
P: 07 3396 8666 | E: alanna@rqys.com.au