Welcome to the Cairns Yacht Club

The Club offers a range of sailing activities with a focus on keel boat and junior dinghy sailing. It's WAGS (Wednesday Afternoon Gentleman's Sailing), which has been running now every Wednesday for over 15 years, has become "infamous" as a fabulous way for visitors to "get on the water". Meet some local yachting identities and enjoy both the competitive and social nature of sailing. It is estimated that since WAGS' inception the club has been responsible for taking over 20,000 visitors out onto the beautiful waters of Trinity Inlet.

The club also boasts a canoeing and outrigger wing which is becoming very popular with the locals. Visitors are welcome to participate.

The Club has a waterfront lease at Ellis Beach, a very picturesque beach area just 20 minutes drive north of the city on the road to Port Douglas, where outriggers and "off the beach catamarans" regularly compete. Members of the club are welcome to visit this facility and even stay overnight as there are sufficient grounds and resources to allow camping to take place.

In 2003 the Cairns Yacht Club was provisionally listed with the Queensland Department of ???? as a Heritage listed building and facility. Unfortunately, at the eleventh hour this listing was reversed, and the club seemed to be facing a very bleak future, such a shame after so much history. However, discussions and negotiations between the Cairns Yacht Club and the Cairns Port Authority (the government body imbued with the managing of the waterfront areas) now have developed very positively and the club now faces a new future in a new facility and located within the Cairns Marlin Marina. For more details of this move and subsequent developments, please see the Current Developments page of this Web site.

In the future, once the club has been relocated, the club is reassured of a prominent future with the Cairns community as it continues it's 104 years in the development and involvement in sailing and boating in it's various forms.