Find Club Manuals, annual reports and other governance documents.
Women on Water
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.
Good Ideas in brief - Ideas from various yacht clubs
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.Minutes and Seconds conversion table
Table to convert minutes and seconds to decimal minutes – every 5 seconds
Race Signals
The meanings of visual and sound signals.
Blank Protest Form
Protest form - also for requests for redress and reopening
YNZ Media Policy
Yachting New Zealand recognises that media exposure plays an important role in increasing public interest in the sport, attracting and servicing sponsors and profiling the organisation, and to this end one of the roles of Yachting New Zealand's Co
Funding (ELA)
The ELA Fund provides not-for-profit groups with financial assistance to advocate for an environmental issue of high public interest in resource management cases at the Environment Court, and at boards of inquiry constituted under the "Call in" pr
Coaching Tools: Inclusive Coaching
Creating a coaching session that includes sailors of all levels and ability. So that everyone can practise and compete in the session with equal amount of coaching time and input.
YNZ Learn to Sail - Inclusive Supplement
For use by coaches when their sailors have a physical disability that prevents them from completing the full checklist in the books.
Annual report
In support of Yachting New Zealand's environmental sustainability strategy, the annual report will only be available electronically.
YNZ Ethical Guidelines for Sailors, Coaches and Parents & Volunteers
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.
Know your Regional Sports Trust
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).
Learn to Sail - Keelboat
Many affiliated Keelboat clubs offer three levels of Keelboat learn to sail courses.
The courses are:
Sport New Zealand - Sport Compass
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.
Volvo Sailing... Have a Go! (for schools)
The Volvo Sailing...Have a go! programme began in 2006 with one trailer, living the dream of Sir Peter Blake that all children should get the chance to go sailing.
Sailing Games Book
YNZ Sailing Games Book Stuck for ideas on running training sessions?
Want to make the Learn to Sail sessions more fun?














