About Aquatic Park Sailing Club

Our Story

Aquatic Park Sailing Club has been providing an affordable, member-run sailing experience in Toronto since 1976. Located on the Leslie Street Spit in Tommy Thompson Park, we offer a unique escape from the city while being just minutes from downtown.

APSC is a not-for-profit corporation incorporated in Ontario and governed by the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010. We have no shareholders and distribute no profits—membership fees and volunteer labour go back into maintaining the moorings, docks and clubhouse.

The club predates the park around it: when APSC was founded in 1976 the Leslie Street Spit was still a working lakefill headland, and the site was not named Tommy Thompson Park until 1984. Today we sail from our own bay inside the park, on conservation land owned by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and occupied under licence.

Our club is entirely member-run and self-help. This means we keep costs low and build a strong community—everyone pitches in to maintain the club, and in return, we all enjoy an affordable and welcoming sailing home.

We're proud members of the Ontario Harbour Sailing Federation (OHSF), Ontario Sailing, Sail Canada, and the Lake Ontario Cruising Club Association (LOCCA).

Our Facilities

We have a sheltered mooring area with mooring balls for each member. Members will need to have a dinghy or other small boat to get to their ball. We have large floating docks for easy loading and unloading. Our off-the-grid clubhouse runs on sustainable solar energy. We don't have shore power but what you do get is waking up on a mooring ball facing the wind with natural air conditioning. Many members have solar on their boats and instead of showers we can swim right off our boats!

What We Offer