Marine services in Toronto

Sailing club

Waterfront motor yacht club at 6 Arnott Avenue, Toronto, with club marina on Lake Macquarie, Emerson's on the Lake restaurant and Mariners Bar with beer garden overlooking the marina.

Sailing club

In 2024, Australian Sailing named its national Club of the Year in Category B — and the trophy went to a volunteer-run dinghy club on the western shore of Lake Macquarie. Toronto Amateur Sailing Club took the honour at the NSW & ACT Sailing Awards and again at the national awards, and local state MP Greg Piper has called the club the state's leading dinghy regatta venue and "a flagship of the Lake Macquarie community". Commodore Evan McHugh, for his part, credits something less glamorous and more interesting: the club's place in what he calls an entire network of little regional clubs, co-hosting events with neighbours rather than competing with them. The club's stated purpose could hardly be plainer — to foster and encourage sailing, with everyone welcome regardless of class. It lives that through an open-fleet policy unusual even among dinghy clubs: centreboard classes of any kind race here, any class with three or more starters gets its own start, and a miscellaneous mixed-yardstick division mops up the rest. Sabots, Herons, Tasars, Lasers and Moths are the regulars, and the calendar runs from September to April with sailing most Sundays and some Saturdays, while the final Sund