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Royal Motor Yacht Club Woollahra (Rose Bay)

Rose Bay, NSW

Royal Motor Yacht Club Woollahra (Rose Bay) is listed by YouSail as a Yacht club in Rose Bay, NSW. Its listed boat classes include Yacht club. Check the club directly for current programs, facilities and membership details.

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Sydney Harbour

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21 Wunulla Road, Point Piper NSW 2027

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Location guide

Where to find Royal Motor Yacht Club Woollahra (Rose Bay)

Listed address: 21 Wunulla Road, Point Piper NSW 2027, Rose Bay, NSW, 2027, Australia

Sailing region: Sydney Harbour

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Sailing waters

Wunulla Road runs along the shore at the south-western corner of Rose Bay, and the club sits at the point where the residential streetscape of Point Piper meets the public foreshore of Rose Bay Park. Navigation into the bay is simple: deep water right up to the mooring field, no bar, no bridge, with the only cautions being the density of moored and berthed boats and the seaplane operations at Lyne Park to the east. The club's berths lie in the lee of the peninsula, well protected from the north-easter that roughens the outer bay on summer afternoons.

Small-craft traffic is constant: rowing shells use the shoreline 'runway' in all weather, dragon boats train midweek, and kayaks launch from the beach and storage pavilion in Rose Bay Park. Rose Bay ferry wharf and the Lyne Park playground are a ten-minute walk east, and Double Bay's village shops lie just beyond. The club's own history threads through Sydney's motor boating story: from the Rose Bay parent club grew the Pittwater branch that became the Royal Motor Yacht Club Broken Bay, and the royal warrant granted in the late 1920s still anchors the club's identity.

Membership draws heavily from the surrounding peninsula suburbs, where waterfront houses with private jetties line Wunulla Road, and the bar on a summer Friday is as much neighbourhood institution as yacht club. Visiting skippers should remember the 4-knot zone around the marinas and the give-way etiquette around seaplanes and rowers. Cranbrook School sits directly opposite on New South Head Road, and its rowing sheds feed the morning traffic of eights along the seawall.

Club details, boat categories and facilities

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Region: Sydney Harbour
Club type: Yacht club
Australian Sailing affiliation reported by YouSail: Not verified
Boat or club category reported by YouSail: Yacht club
Membership applications: Yes
Clubhouse: Yes
Organised racing: Yes
Social sailing: Yes
Accessibility information: Not verified
Boat storage: Yes
Launching facilities: Not verified
Bar or restaurant: Yes

Club activities and services

Marina service
Berthing & moorings
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About Royal Motor Yacht Club Woollahra (Rose Bay)

Royal Motor Yacht Club Woollahra (Rose Bay) is a motor-yacht club based in Rose Bay on Sydney Harbour. The organisation appears to operate as a yacht/boating club offering member-focused boating and sailing activities and club facilities.

Public contact information is available via phone, website.

Club history

On Wunulla Road at the western corner of Rose Bay, the Royal Motor Yacht Club occupies one of the most envied waterfront positions in the eastern suburbs, its floating marina spread across the bay in front of a clubhouse that looks north over the water to the harbour heads. The club is the original seat of royal motor yachting in New South Wales: the Motor Yacht Club of NSW was established at Rose Bay in the 1920s, received royal patronage under King George V, and seeded the famous Broken Bay branch at Newport in 1927.

Now trading as the Royal Motor Yacht Club NSW at Point Piper, it remains first and foremost a members' powerboat club, with around 90 floating berths accommodating vessels to roughly 20 metres and 18 swing moorings beyond. The scale of the marina relative to the clubhouse is striking; from the promenade the rows of cruisers dominate this end of the bay. Inside, the club runs the familiar licensed-club formula: restaurant and bar trading Wednesday to Sunday, a gym, function spaces hired out through Zest Waterfront Venues for weddings and corporate events, and parking alongside Wunulla Road.

Its neighbours define the precinct: Point Piper Marina 150 metres to the south, Rose Bay Marina beyond it, and Woollahra Sailing Club across the bay. For motor boat owners who want a social club attached to their berth rather than a purely commercial marina, this is one of Sydney's longest-established options. The royal warrant, granted when the club was barely a few seasons old, still anchors its identity.

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Membership and visiting requirements

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Planning a visit to Royal Motor Yacht Club Woollahra (Rose Bay)

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