About Lysterfield Sailing Club
Melbourne has no shortage of bayside clubs, but sailing in the middle of a bushland park with kangaroos watching from the rigging lawn is a different proposition entirely. Lysterfield Sailing Club is a small off-the-beach club for dinghies and catamarans on Lysterfield Lake, a retired drinking-water reservoir in the city's outer south-east, roughly 32 kilometres from the CBD. Members describe sharing their rigging time with the local kangaroos, and that single detail captures the club's character better than any facilities list: this is sailing in the bush, on enclosed freshwater, half an hour from suburbia.
The club pitches itself as genuinely welcoming — every ability, gender, background, religion and age is explicitly invited — and it pays respect to the Wurundjeri people, the land's traditional owners. Membership is deliberately affordable: in the 2025/26 season an adult or a whole family joins for $180, and visitors can front a winter race for ten dollars a boat. Any monohull dinghy up to sixteen feet and catamarans up to 14.5 feet fit within the club's racing scope.
Racing happens weekly on Saturdays through the October-to-May summer series and every second Saturday across a June-to-September winter series, with starts at 1:30pm. The fleet mix is eclectic — Impulse, Sabre, Laser and Tasar monohulls alongside Paper Tiger, Arrow and Nacra multihulls, with RS Aeros and Moths also appearing — and members have carried the club's name to class nationals, including the Paper Tiger championship fleet. Volunteering underpins everything: members roster through Officer of the Day and safety boat duties, and racing is run from a tower overlooking the lake.
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