Browns Bay Boating Club is a boating club at 19 Manly Esplanade, Browns Bay, on Auckland's North Shore. It began in 1973, when Dave Donaldson, the club's patron, and a group of boat owners wanted a communal tractor to launch their boats from Browns Bay beach. The club became an incorporated society that December, and it started out at Donaldson Engineering in Anzac Road.
The club now shares a building with Coastguard North Shore, in a space managed by the Browns Bay Marine Centre Trust. The club says it supports the trust and works with it on boating safety and on educating boaties and the wider public. Its base on the Manly Esplanade puts it on the shore of Browns Bay, close to the beach where the tractor first launched its boats. The club's history begins with that shared need to get boats into the water, and that practical purpose still runs through its work on safety.