Wynnum Manly Yacht Club

Training and sailing programs

The club runs organised racing series (including an annual St Helena Cup, twilight races and other regattas) and hosts community sailing activities and event days. The clubhouse lists sailing resources, Meet the Fleet information for race entrants and social sailing events; detailed formal learn‑to‑sail courses or junior pathway programmes were not explicitly listed on the club homepage snapshot and should be confirmed with the club.

Club history

At the head of Manly Boat Harbour, tucked deepest inside the breakwaters, sits the marina that locals call the Manly Marina, operated by Wynnum Manly Yacht Club Marina Ltd and promoted, with some justification, as the most protected marina in the harbour. Its structure is unusual and worth understanding. The 280 wet berths are not owned by the marina company; they are owned by individual club members, and buying a berth automatically makes the owner a shareholder in Wynnum Manly Yacht Club Marina Ltd, which manages rentals and operations on the members' behalf.

Better still for owners, the foreshore leases have been extended to 2053 and berth owners pay no government lease extension fees, retaining ownership through the extensions, which explains the steady trickle of berth sales advertised through coastal brokers. The fleet skews to practical Queensland boating: wet berths from 8 to 19 metres including catamaran pens, around 40 dry berths for trailer boats to 9 metres, and 40 dinghy racks with their own ramp and retrieval system for the sailing fleet.

The parent Wynnum Manly Yacht Club, which styles itself the friendliest yacht club in the bay, runs the licensed clubhouse, a waterfront dining room, an active regatta and social calendar, and even hosts the Manly Dragon Boat Club, founded in 2006, whose paddlers train from the same shore. Depths are honest rather than generous, two to three metres at low water, and the club makes no apology for it: this is a sailors' marina in the old style, sheltered, member-owned and walking distance from the Manly shops.