Aquatic Park Sailing Club

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The Aquatic Park Sailing Club is located within Tommy Thompson Park. Originally built by the Toronto Harbour Commissioners as a breakwater for a new outer harbour, the area on which the APSC is located was first officially called the Outer Harbour East Headlands. The Spit arches southwest some 3.2 miles into Lake Ontario, extending just beyond the eastern end of the Toronto Islands. In 1972, the Toronto Harbour Commissioners announced a plan to construct an aquatic park on the Headlands which would provide for a variety of recreational interests. The Spit was opened to the public on weekends in 1973. At a special meeting of the Ontario Sailing Association in the spring of 1976, it was decided to apply to the Toronto Harbour Commissioners for a license for 50 sailboat moorings in one of the bays on the Spit. Alf Jenkins, Executive Director of the OSA, made the application and along with a staff member of the THC, chose the present site. There were 12 boats moored in the initial year of 1976. The first boat was moored in August by Bill Knoll, who later became the club's first commodore. Alf Jenkins and a few others put up a metal garden shed for storage and built a simple dock and a dinghy rack. By 1978 thirty boats were moored. A meeting of the boat owners was called, and it was agreed to form the Aquatic Park Sailing Club. In those early years, part of the difficulty as well as the fun was getting to the club in the spring when the gravel road off the main road of the Spit...

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