Theresa Creek Water Sports Club

About Theresa Creek Water Sports Club

Theresa Creek Water Sports Club is a Queensland sailing or boating organisation associated with Clermont, QLD. It appears on Australian Sailing's 2026-27 Queensland affiliated-club schedule at Band 22, which provides a current governing-body verification signal. Theresa Creek Water Sports Club appears to be a local sailing and boating club based in Clermont, Queensland. The club is associated with organised sailing activities and events (including a regatta reported in news coverage). No website or detailed facility information was supplied.

Contact, website and location data in this enriched record were retained from the source dataset and updated where a reliable current public source was located; source and verification columns show the evidence and remaining gaps.

Training and sailing programs

The headline program is one the club hosts rather than owns outright: an Australian Sailing OutThere Sailing Experience — sessions for twelve-to-seventeen-year-olds spanning sailing, windsurfing, stand-up paddleboarding and powerboating — scheduled at the dam for August 2026, with instruction provided by qualified Australian Sailing coaches supplied through Keppel Bay Sailing Club.

That partnership model is the honest frame for everything sail-training-related here: the club itself holds no Discover Sailing Centre accreditation, and teaching arrives with the visiting experts from the coast. The regatta itself functions as the region's sailing classroom. The inaugural 2023 event devoted its mornings to sailing and boating tasters for children and young people drawn from surrounding towns, before racing took over the afternoons and a marathon closed proceedings.

The 2024 regatta structured competition across five divisions: Open Monohulls; Open Catamarans, which admitted Weta trimarans on a yardstick of 91; an Intermediates division for boats rated above 120 on the Australian Sailing yardstick — Laser 4.7s, Corsairs, Flying 11s and RS Fevas among them; Juniors in Optimists, Sabots and Open Bics; and a Junior Green Fleet for the least experienced.

Six heats across two days were scored on the yardstick system, an Adventure Sail rounded out the program, and entry fees ran from twenty to fifty dollars depending on division — pricing plainly set to attract bush families rather than deter them. Outside regatta week, the club's everyday on-water life belongs to its original sports: water skiing and jet skiing across the dam's open reaches.

Between the tow-sport regulars and the annual influx of dinghies, the programming philosophy stays consistent — get regional families onto the water by whatever craft is at hand.

Club history

How and when the club itself began is simply not recorded in the material available — its founding year and founders' names have not surfaced, and with no website of its own, the club has no public home where such a story might live. Community water-ski clubs of this kind typically grew from informal gatherings of local families once a dam filled, and this dam dates only to 1983, when Blair Athol Coal built it to supply Clermont's water; beyond that honest general observation, the early record is blank.

The documented history begins instead with a sailing idea. August 2021 brought the founding idea: the Clermont Community Business Group dreamed up a sailing event on a dam 420 kilometres from the coast and approached the club to form a working group. Australian Sailing provided guidance, and Keppel Bay Sailing Club of Yeppoon joined the partnership, its people driving five hours inland to inspect the venue. What they found — clubhouse, access, camping — persuaded them to commit.

The inaugural Clermont Outback Regatta followed in August 2023, an event the national body described as bringing sailing to the bush, and which drew Australian Sailing's representative Grant Willmott to attend in person. Mornings gave local children and teenagers a taste of sailing and boating, afternoons were given over to racing, and a marathon brought the event to its close. The following year the club formally stepped up: for the 2024 Outback Regatta, run on 3-4 August, it acted as Organising Authority in conjunction with Keppel Bay.

The venture even caught the eye of the mining-industry press, with magazine The Coalface covering the story under the heading "Clermont Sets Sail" — a fair summary of how a tow-sport club put inland Queensland on the sailing map.