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J/24 Boat Rental

Renting a J24 sailboat offers a uniquely versatile and exciting experience on the water, making it an outstanding choice for a wide range of sailors. Whether you’re planning a casual day sail, an intensive training session with your crew, or a weekend of high-octane racing, the J24’s blend of performance, affordability, and strong community support makes it a clear winner.

  • PManned Standby Powerboat To Assist
  • PInstructor Available to Help Dock
  • PInstructor Available to Sail for Minimal Cost

 

What Are The Pre-requisites for Boat Rental?

  • YOU MUST have your QLD Recreational Boat License.
  • YOU MUST have completed the ASA 101 or ASA 111 course.
  • YOU MUST sign a waiver and medical capability form.

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Basic

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$290

Pro

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$790

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Why become a member?

A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

Having access to supported sailing to enhance the skills you learned while in course, is an invaluable step in your future sailing.  The community is great place to meet new people, join member sails, and enjoy time in and around the water with some fantastic people.

Lowest Student / Instructor Ratio

We are the only RYA school in Queensland that has a 4:1 Student to Instructor ratio as standard. What does this mean for you? This means more room on the boat, no sharing beds, and more time for instruction. You are getting more training for the money than any other school.

Instructors Dual RYA/ASA Certified

Our instructors are not only experienced sailors but also hold dual certifications from both the RYA and ASA, the two largest sail training organizations in the world. You can rest assured knowing that you will be learning from highly qualified instructors.

Queensland's Premier Catamaran Sail Training

We are the leading RYA catamaran training center in Queensland, offering more RYA courses on catamaran than anyone else. If you want to buy, charter, or sail a catamaran, we are the school that will help you increase your abilities so you can maximize your adventure.

You Become Part of Our Community

We have a strong sailing community of past and current students. Many have boats that love to have crew aboard for a daily, weekend, or somethings longer trips. We love to get together and have BBQ’s, concerts, and flotillas. What an amazing community you could be a part of, you will be welcomed with open arms.

No Sharing Beds w/Strangers

We know this might be something that would be a given, but it isn’t.  Most schools require students (strangers) to share a bed, often with a piece of cloth or a board between them.  We do not believe you should have to pay extra to have your own bed.

What our past students have to say!

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Thank you Mark for the invaluable 5 days sailing under your instruction. It was a great experience and I learnt so much in a great way I cannot thank you enough My sailing now is my next chapter in life Cheers to you Oh and thank you Racheal for all your work in making it happen and your food prep, it was was fantastic Cheers Paul
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Great training, polish my mistake and wonderful learning with buddies Paul and Puncho. Mark is a special trainer with wisdom deep as ocean. Special thanks to Rachel for tucking me in last minute. It’s just the best 4 days of full on practice training and sailing making mistakes and celebrating the success. Thank you 🙏 sunshine sailing Australia for giving me the opportunity.
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Xiang Zhao
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I did my RYA level 2 powerboat certification last weekend here. Our instructor Mark is a legend. He is patient, knowledgeable, kind and experienced. You will definitely want someone like him who actually sailed around world for couple of times and who deeply loves and respects ships and the ocean. Sunshine Sailing Australia is great! Good location, nice boats, friendly staff and great beforehand information, etc. Highly recommended.
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Sailing the Sunshine Coast is an amazing opportunity for anyone from any Walk of Life
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Sharn Levis
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We just completed our ASA 101 and Day Skipper! We had never sailed before but have had time on the water in our own power boat. Rachel was amazing at catering this course to suit our future goals and experience. We travelled all the way from North WA, so everyone went out of their way to make sure we were able to complete the courses, even with the weather being completely against us on the first week! We absolutely loved the ASA course on the little monohull. Seb was a great instructor, making it fun but informative. Then we went on to the Day Skipper for 5 days live aboard on Allegro. It was great to see the difference between a monohull and catamaran and put our new skills into practice. Mark was our instructor for the RYA Day Skipper and what a wealth of knowledge he is! We feel very lucky to have had him to learn from. He is one of the most patient instructors we’ve ever met and loved hearing all of his sailing stories. The other crew members were really good fun too. Definitely a trip we won’t forget! Thanks again to Rachel and Dave for making it happen for us and thank you to Seb and Mark for teaching us the ropes! Sharn and Tristan :) Karratha, WA.
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Warren Jackson
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We did the day skipper course on our boat with sunshine sailing . Our instructor, Mark was very experienced a great communicator and easy to get along with . We learnt soo much
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Robbert de Ruijter
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Brilliant sailing course. Clear instruction, heaps of hands-on practice, and a really supportive, professional instructor. Learned a lot, gained confidence on the water, and genuinely enjoyed every day. Highly recommended.
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Michiel Mel
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We did the competent crew course two weeks ago. We had a week with a decent wind and swell and even though we were just beginners, we left the boat confident after five days. The instructor covered a lot more than we needed to know for this course, but still we were very comfortable. I would highly recommend this sailing school.
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Luke Duindam
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Great exposure to real sailing, Mark put us through some very realistic scenarios which was very useful for learning. Plenty of patience for all and any questions. I benefitted greatly from my experience.
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Damien Carter
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We wanted to send a big thank you to the team at Sunshine sailing. We’ve just come back from an incredible week out on the water completing our Day Skipper and Competent Crew course. A huge thank you to Nate our instructor for the week. Nate’s extensive sailing experience was very evident from the outset and his calm and patient approach made a world of difference to the crew. We couldn’t have asked for a better instructor. Also a big thank you to the owners of Sunshine sailing Rachel and David. You can tell they both love what they do and it shows in spades in every dealing we had with both of them before and after we completed the course. We’d highly recommend using Sunshine sailing to anyone considering gaining more sailing experience. We hope to see you all again for the next course. Thanks again for an incredible week. Regards Damien and Peta.
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