Local Government
Melville
Region
Metropolitan
2 Canning Beach Rd Applecross
Melville
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1960, Constructed from 1940
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 17 Jun 2014 | Category B | |
The significance rests primarily with the presence of the Yacht Club on the Coffee Point location and the activity as a yachting facility in Applecross.
The Clubhouse is a one and two level building with verandahs and viewing deck set in a grassed area on the foreshore at Coffee Point, with bitumenised car parking behind the Clubhouse; a number of jetties project into the Swan River and the Canning River as moorings for yachts and launches.
The Beeliar Nyoongars used these areas as campsites and hunting grounds. In the summer months the areas provided the Aborigines with an abundance of food and other resources. The Aboriginal name for the Swan River is 'Derbal Yaragan', for the Canning River is 'Dyarlgarro' and for the mouth of the Canning River 'Wagoorjup' place of the Waugal. The South Perth Yacht Club was founded on 18 December 1945 and the inaugural meeting of the Club was held in the former Como Sea Scout Hall at Point Hampton, Como (on the foreshore near to present day Olives Reserve), on 18 December 1945. The Club held its first yacht race on 13 January 1946. The original clubhouse of the South Perth Yacht Club was an army disposal mess building. Club members volunteered to remove the building from its original site at Point Walter, Bicton, and to transport it to its new site on the Como foreshore. The Clubhouse was adjacent to the Como Sea Scout Hall and was officially opened on 18 November 1946. In 1960, due to the impending development of the Kwinana Freeway, the Club received State Government assistance to relocate to Coffee Point in Applecross. The Club is now referred to as the South of Perth Yacht Club.
Sound and well maintained.
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| City of South Perth Local History | City of South Perth website | ||
| South of Perth Yacht Club | South of Perth Yacht Club website |
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