Marine services in Toukley

Sailing club

Ask a dinghy sailor on the Central Coast where to find serious small-boat championship racing without big-club formality, and Toukley Sailing Club comes up quickly. Perched above Canton Beach on Tuggerah Lake's northern shore, this compact community club has become a favoured venue for single-handed and small-catamaran title events: the OK Dinghy NSW state championships ran here in November 2022, the Paper Tiger Australian Championships in the 2025/26 summer, and the Spiral class national titles in January 2026. Yet the atmosphere stays stubbornly grassroots. Visiting crews are offered free camping beside the clubhouse during major regattas, and one visiting report described the setting simply as a gorgeous spot. The club welcomes every kind of off-the-beach boat, monohull or catamaran, and sailors of any experience level, which makes it as much a place to learn the craft as a place to race it. It is one of only two dinghy clubs on the Tuggerah Lakes system, the other based at Wyong, and its identity is bound up with one man: Bill Cheal, who refounded the club in 1963 and then served as secretary-treasurer for more than half a century. The memorial regatta bearing his name anchors