A Wellington City Council and Yachting New Zealand initiative, administered by the New Zealand Academy of Sport - North Island, designed to help increase the number of Wellington youth sailors achieving international success more
Coaching & Learn to Sail
Coaching is provided for junior and youth classes and many senior classes. Refer to the WYA calendar for upcoming clinics.
Every club offers learn to sail courses. Enquiries can be made by contacting the clubs at the addresses shown under the Club Details tab.
A list of available coaches can be found
here.
Courses for Volunteers
WYA regularly provide courses for volunteers. Expressions of interest are now sought for:
- Patrol boat course;
- VHF radio course;
- Coastal medic course;
- Teams racing umpires course;
- Keelboat instructors' course.
If you are interested, please email John Grace on john.r.grace@gmail.com.
Information for Clubs
KiwiSport is a scheme in which the Government has allocated over M$82 to encourage school children to participate in organised sports. In the Wellington Region, the scheme is administered by Sport Wellington.
- Read Sport Wellington's presentation on how the scheme will workhere
- Read Sport Wellington's draft plan for the implementation of KiwiSport here
- Obtain a form for making submissions to Sport Wellington on their draft plan here
The Organisation Development Tool is a programme developed by SPARC to assess the performance of sporting organisations and to recommend improvements. The programme is offered by Yachting New Zealand.
- The Guidelines for the programme can be read here
- A Flier for the programme can be read here
- A powerpoint presentations concerning the programme can be read here
Yachting New Zealand's plan for developing sailing and boating in New Zealand can be seen
here.
What Wellington sailors have been doing
Congratulations to the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club team for winning the New Zealand National Keel Boat Championships. The team comprised Josh Junior (skipper), Jonathan Clough, Matthew Clough, Luke O'Connell and Matthew Steven
You can watch youth match racing at Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club by
clicking here.
Watch club sailing at Worser Bay by
clicking here.
Watch 420 sailing at Evans Bay by
clicking here.
See what sailing used to be like at Paremata in the early 60s by
clicking here.