SAILABILITY Toronto will receive a small boost from Lake Macquarie City Council to repair its pontoon damaged in the April storms.

Councillors voted to donate $1000 to the club to help pay for the repairs, estimated to cost between $3000 and $5000.

The pontoon sustained moderate structural damage during the storms, in which the rollers between the piers broke. It has held together, but it does not roll fluidly with the waves as pontoons are designed to do.

With the money, the pontoon will be lifted from the water and reconstructed at an engineering workshop. It is hoped the repairs will help strengthen the pontoon to withstand future storms.

Sailability Toronto president Geoff Thornely said the club was grateful for the council's donation.

The club provides weekly sailing lessons to about 100 people a month with special needs, including amputees and stroke recovery patients as well as people with autism, cerebral palsy and spinal cord damage.

Sailors board boats from a specially-constructed pontoon equipped with a crane to help those in wheelchairs. For this reason Mr Thornely said it was imperative the pontoon be repaired in time for the start of the sailing season in October.

"We need it because a lot of our people are in wheelchairs and we need to have access from land onto the boat at the same level," he said. "The money will help us do that."

The council is seeking disaster relief funding to repair a number of other assets across the city that were damaged during the storms, including Belmont Jetty and Marmong Point foreshore.

It expects repair and replacement works to continue for several months to come.