Balmain Sailing Club

Balmain Sailing Club is a sailing club in the Inner West Council area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It has about 300 members and races a keelboat fleet and a dinghy fleet, running a full racing calendar through the year with summer, winter and spring series, summer twilight races before and after Christmas, and a number of non point-score races. Keelboat racing is organised across four divisions on Sundays and again on Friday twilights in summer, and the dinghy fleet races in two divisions. The club is in Water Street on the northern side of the Balmain peninsula, in the suburb of Birchgrove, with water access directly into Sydney Harbour. It was originally formed in 1885, went through a long period of little activity and was re-formed in 1995. It hosts the annual Balmain Regatta, claimed to be the oldest in Australia, first held in 1849 and run again since 1996.