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NSW Regional Advisory Committee - Call for nominations

With the deregistration of Yachting NSW in 2018, the Australian Sailing board established a NSW committee to take its place. This Regional Advisory Committee is a committee of Australian Sailing and is elected by NSW clubs

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Wed 01 May 2024

Experience Blue Water Sailing in an 18th Century Replica Barque

Museum ship HMB Endeavour replica will embark on a 15-day voyage to Lord Howe Island

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Mon 22 Jan 2024

Club in Focus - Botany Bay Yacht Club

Botany Bay Yacht Club (BBYC) was founded in 1964 and is now celebrating its 60th season.

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Tue 16 Jan 2024

Alignment of accreditation dates for multi-qualification holders

We recently changed how we recognise and support instructors and coaches who hold multiple accreditations. We hope the change described below reduces barriers cited by many instructors and coaches to remaining accredited in multiple sailing disciplines. The change enables a simpler process to reaccreditation and saves you time and costs associated in the 5 yearly reaccreditation process.

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Fri 01 Dec 2023

The Benefits of Race Management Induction/Training for your Club

With the sailing season just around the corner, we encourage clubs to provide a Race Management Induction training day as an effective and efficient means to plan for fun, enjoyable, safe and efficient season of racing at your club. In providing a training day for your volunteers and workforce clubs can provide updates on important club policies and procedures, upskill your team, and allow your clubs management to set expectations within the larger context of the club’s goals, objectives, and op

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Tue 14 Nov 2023

Will you be delivering Learn to Wing Courses, FoilLABs or foiling class coaching programs at your club this season?

North Action Sports Group Australia continues their partnership with Australian Sailing as the official foiling equipment supplier to clubs and Discover Sailing Centres.

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Mon 13 Nov 2023

CLUB RACE OFFICER – FURTHER AMENDMENT

We wish to advise that Club Race Officer accreditation will now be extended through to 30th June 2025.

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Fri 10 Nov 2023

Foiling Safety – For coaches & club support personnel

Foiling is rapidly growing at clubs across the country, and many coaches are beginning to deliver sessions at their clubs with various foiling classes, with this growth comes extra safety precautions you need to be aware of when supporting sailors, especially when operating near the equipment or in rescue situations.

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Mon 30 Oct 2023

Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron publish plenty of picture perfect posts

Let’s get more people involved and engaged with community Sailing on social media. Checkout what club from around the country was the Audience Allstar, Publishing Pro, King of Content and Performance Powerhouse from Jan-Sep 2023.

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Mon 23 Oct 2023

Child Safeguarding and the Law – Online Safety and Sport

The Office of Sport's Sport Integrity Unit is facilitating a series of webinars to assist people from the sport and active recreation sector to understand their obligations in relation to reporting Child Safety concerns and empower them to know how and when to make a report.

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Thu 19 Oct 2023

2023 Training in Focus ‘LIVE’ Recap

Providing professional development for Instructors and Discover Sailing Centre administrators, the 2023 Training in Focus ‘LIVE’ events were held in every state and territory between June and September this year. These events brought together accredited Australian Sailing Instructors, Assistant Instructors, and Discover Sailing Centre Principals from across the nation to share knowledge, best practices, and updates on all aspects of program delivery.

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Tue 17 Oct 2023

Benefits of Officials Accreditation

Using Australian Sailing accredited officials is a positive step which can help your club meet its racing sailor’s needs. Accredited officials help provide racing that’s consistently well run, fair and safe - directly impacting your club fleet’s and your volunteer’s weekly enthusiasm.

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Wed 11 Oct 2023

Resources Available for Clubs to Engage with Young People

Australian Sailing is pleased to announce the publication of a suite of resources to help clubs better engage with young people. Involving young people early in the club’s decision-making process, young people will feel engaged and more likely to remain at your club.

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Fri 06 Oct 2023

2023 Sailing Summit Report

The 2023 Sailing Summits have been a great success for AS and equally for those clubs and classes who attended. They were a real whole of AS team and community effort and a big thank you to everyone who were able to attend.

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Wed 20 Sep 2023

2023 Australian Sailing Club Survey Report

Australian Sailing conduct an annual Club Survey to receive feedback specifically from clubs.

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Wed 20 Sep 2023

Australia celebrates Australia II’s 40th Anniversary of Success

September 26th 2023 marks the 40 year anniversary of the Australia II crew winning the prestigious America’s Cup. In an event that truly stopped the nation, and indeed many others, the iconic America’s Cup win shaped the very fabric of the Australian sporting landscape by instilling the support of the “under dog” and the never give up Aussie attitude in popular culture.

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Tue 05 Sep 2023

New Foiling curriculums now available!

Australian Sailing has released a set of resources for coaches to aid them in their delivery of Participation Programs for foiling classes.

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Tue 15 Aug 2023

Learn about child safeguarding

Sailing clubs, class associations and Discover Sailing Centres all share a responsibility to keep Children safe from abuse and neglect. There are ample resources to help understand what the responsibilities entail.

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Thu 22 Jun 2023