About Taree Aquatic Club
Few sailing clubs in New South Wales live two lives quite as openly as Taree Aquatic Club. Walk in off Macquarie Street and you are in Sailos, a licensed club with a restaurant, gaming, functions and live entertainment marketed on dining beside the Manning River. Step out the back on a summer weekend and you are at the start line of a dinghy club whose roots run to 1946, with race signals flown from the balcony and a finish line that stretches from an outer pink buoy back to the club wall. The two identities are not at war — the hospitality business has, for decades, paid for the sailing — but together they make this one of the more distinctive institutions on the Mid North Coast.
The sailing section carries a heritage fleet of classes that tells the story of post-war Australian dinghy racing: Vee-Esses and MGs, NS14s, Flying 11s, Manly Juniors and Sabots, with trailer yachts filling out the divisions. Racing is organised under the club's own sailing instructions across Divisions One, Two and Three plus a trailer yacht division, with trophies for any constituted class that puts five or more boats on the water. It is competitive but unpretentious club racing on the river, the kind where senior sailors double as junior coaches and everyone takes a turn on duty crew.
The club's story is also the river's story. Organised aquatic sport on the Manning stretches back to at least 1889, when the Manning River Rowing and Sailing Club was running events, and the Croki Boxing Day regattas drew crowds until 1934; the Manning River Aquatic Association's Australia Day carnival ran for more than 40 years from 1950. Taree Aquatic Club sits squarely in that tradition — a community institution that happens to race sailboats, and a sailing club that happens to serve a very good lunch.
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