Marine services in Wangi Wangi

Sailing club

Wangi Wangi has given Australian sailing two gifts of very different kinds: an Olympic gold medallist in Nathan Outteridge, and one of the longest-running community dinghy clubs on Lake Macquarie. Wangi Amateur Sailing Club sits on the western shore of the lake in the heart of the little peninsula town, next door to the Wangi RSL Club — a neighbourliness written into the membership rules, since everyone who races with the sailing club must also belong to the RSL, which hands out the prizes after home racing on Saturdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It's an arrangement that speaks to the club's roots: for decades it carried the name Wangi RSL Amateur Sailing Club. Australian Sailing's directory describes it as a community-based dinghy sailing club, and that's exactly what you find. The sailing year opens with an Open Day and Registration on the first Saturday of September, and from there the calendar barely pauses — racing on Wednesdays, Fridays and weekends, with Spring and Summer series that run through to Easter, then a winter program that keeps boats on the water from May to August. Signature fixtures include the Australia Day Regatta, which pulls sailors from well beyond the lake,