Resources

The Yachting New Zealand Ethical Guidelines are available as DLE printed brochures and are available for affiliated Clubs. Please contact your Regional Support Officer or Yachting New Zealand for copies. 

 

There are other options that can work outside what is shown on this poster, this is simply an outline of the pathways that work most regularly and efficiently.

Sport Compass was created by Sport New Zealand to help people who run sport and recreation organisations.

Use it like a regular compass, to find out what direction to take.

Hansa Class Recommended Yardsticks for Mixed Class Racing -  for sailors wanting to compare Hansa Classes performance to other classes sailing against them at the same regatta.

The meanings of visual and sound signals.

Table to convert minutes and seconds to decimal minutes – every 5 seconds

Clubs need Rules as well as a Constitution so that Rules can be changed whereas to change the constitution is much more complicated. Regatta rules for keelboats should require that at least 50% of the crew is a member of the yacht club.

Females represent slightly more of the country’s population but a much smaller percentage of yacht club membership. On average, females count for only 17-19% of the sailing population.

While the choice of what style life jacket/PFD is often dependant on the type of sailing and an individual’s preference, more care must be taken with the choice for persons with a disability.

There are 17 Regional Sports Trusts across New Zealand. The goals of a RST are to increase regional levels of physical activity and to strengthen regional sport and physical recreation infrastructures (which includes clubs).