Largs Bay Sailing Club is located on the foreshore at Largs Bay, approximately 200m to the north of the Largs Bay jetty on Lady Gowrie Drive at Largs Bay.  

Largs Bay is a north western beach-side suburb of Adelaide approximately 20 km from the city centre. LBSC was founded in 1926 and has over 90 years tradition as a family oriented sailing club.  Largs Bay Sailing Club commenced its 90th year in 2016.  The club was founded in 1926 as the "Largs Bay Dinghy Club" and was renamed as the "Largs Bay Sailing Club" in 1948.  There have been many changes to our clubrooms and club members and officials that have made the club what it is today.

LBSC encourages and facilitates competitive sailing events and provides sail training for youth and senior members.

Current Commodore: Nicholas Neale
President: Matthew Carter 

Unique to LBSC is that their sailing activities are overseen be a team of Flag Officers all of whom are in their early twenties.  Having a team of young officials has been the custom at Largs Bay for the past ten years. Commodore Nicholas Neale is 24 years old and recently attended every AS Club Conference this year to talk about Mentoring and Succession planning. The Vice Commodore Matthew Sampson is 20 years old and Rear Commodore Holly Groome is 24. Holly would like to be the first female Commodore the club has ever had.
The club encourages its race officials and race management volunteers to gain National accreditation and assists members to become qualified race officials and sailing coaches by hosting Australian Sailing training programs and providing subsidies to fund the training.

Programs offered: 
Discover Sailing, Tackers, SheSails, Beginners Learn to sail, Youth and Junior Class coaching programs, Youth Class Development programs
 
Membership:
LBSC has 300 members in 2018/19 season
Sailing members: 200, including 120 Seniors and 80 Youth members
Social members: 90, including 75 Community and 15 Squash members
Female members: 32% and Male: 68%

Member achievements: 
•    Nick Bice, the current Director of Boats and Maintenance for the Volvo Ocean Race is a past member of the LBSC, where he sailed a Laser dinghy.
•    Largs Bay youth sailors and sisters, Brooke and Alicia Gaffney were the 2018 Australian Champions in the International Cadet class.

 
Classes supported and types of sailing: 
Largs Bay conducts racing on the waters of Gulf St Vincent directly in front of the club.  
Boats can be rigged and launched from a clean, white, sandy beach into shallow waters, which are accessible even in stronger winds.  The beach is accessed via a graded driveway on which boats may be towed by hand or using a motor vehicle.  The club provides towing vehicles to assist with transport and launching of larger trailerable boats and coach and safety boats.  There are large car parks to the north and south of the club and plenty of on-street parking near the club.

The following classes are represented at Largs Bay:
Youth & Juniors Classes: Optimist, Intl Cadet, Intl 420 and Laser 4.7 & Radial,
Senior Classes: Australian Sharpie, Heron, Impulse, Intl Fireball, Laser, RS Aero, Sabre, Tasar
Trailerable Yachts: Hartley TS16 and Usual 20 TS

Key club events: 
Class National Championship Regattas are conducted annually at Largs Bay including:
2018/19:     Cherub, Tasar and Hartley TS16 Class National Championships
2017/18:     NS14 Class Australian Championship
Jan 2017:     Optimist Australian & Open Championship regattas and the International Cadet Australian Championship

1990/91:    Tasar Australian and World Championship

LBSC conducts weekly club racing from October to April each season for club boats and hosts an Australia Day Regatta in January every year.

Largs Bay will also be host club to the upcoming SA Youth Championships taking place 2 – 3 November 2019: