Sailing Schools Queensland
Sailing schools in Queensland — Moreton Bay, the Sunshine Coast, the Whitsundays and Hervey Bay. Yacht training, catamaran courses and charter preparation.
Sailing schools in Queensland
Mainstay Sailing
RYA-accredited courses run in the Whitsundays.
Paper Sailors Rock
The Tasmanian base of the RYA centre, operating from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania at Sandy Bay.
Southern Cross Yachting
RYA training centre at East Coast Marina since 1996, with one-day to five-day courses, charter preparation and coastal mile builders.
Sunshine Sailing Australia
Based at Mooloolaba Marina, running sail and power training on the Sunshine Coast, in Brisbane and in the Whitsundays.
Also operating in Queensland
These schools are in our directory but their profiles are still being checked. We publish accreditation, training boats and course details only once we have verified them against the school, so nothing is listed for them yet.
The water you learn on
Queensland covers the widest range of training water of any state. Moreton Bay gives Brisbane sheltered, shallow sailing behind its sand islands. Further north, the Whitsundays are Australia’s best-known bareboat charter ground, so training there tends toward charter preparation, catamaran handling and anchoring rather than club racing. Warm water and a long season make Queensland a common choice for liveaboard courses.
Course types around Queensland
Availability varies by school, and not every course type is taught in every region. The three-question finder matches a starting course to your experience and goal, then points at the schools that teach it.
Training elsewhere in Australia
New South Wales
Sydney Harbour · Middle Harbour · Pittwater · Broken Bay · Botany Bay — 8 schools
Victoria
Melbourne · Port Phillip — 3 schools
Western Australia
Perth · Fremantle · Cockburn Sound · Busselton · Geographe Bay — 4 schools
South Australia
Adelaide · Gulf St Vincent — 0 schools
Tasmania
Hobart · Derwent · D’Entrecasteaux Channel — 0 schools
Northern Territory
Darwin · Darwin Harbour — 0 schools
Australian Capital Territory
Canberra · Lake Burley Griffin — 0 schools
Australia-wide and online
Australia-wide · Online · Mobile training — 0 schools
Not sure which school in Queensland fits?
Start with the outcome, the boat you will train on, class size and whether the qualification is relevant to what you want to do.