News - Australian Sailing

Club in Focus: Albury Wodonga Yacht Club (AWYC)

Located on the shores of one of Australia’s largest freshwater lakes, Lake Hume, Albury Wodonga Yacht Club (AWYC) is a sailing club that offers competitive and social sailing opportunities. AWYC is a true cross border club with members from both NSW and Victoria; the club has demonstrated great resilience over the past year managing the challenges of COVID and launching a host of new social activities to reconnect and reinvigorate the club.

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Tue 09 Mar 2021

Winners are grinners with Maui Jim and OutThere Sailing

To celebrate reaching the halfway mark of our 12 month long social post competition we showcase the winners thus far and remind everyone associated with OutThere Sailing to get a happy snap in for a chance to WIN over the coming 6 months before competition end.

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Tue 09 Mar 2021

New OutThere Sailing Sporting Schools

All the OutThere Sailing programs with the exception of OutThere Sailing Combined have been added to our Sporting Schools products. Thanks to this addition Discover Sailing Centres can now engage with secondary school students too.

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Mon 15 Feb 2021

New Dinghy Start Sailing Intro course

Australian Sailing created a new Learn to Sail course: Dinghy Start Sailing Intro. This new introductory course is designed to attract new to the sport participants and beginner sailors to experience what dinghy sailing is about in a fun and affordable way.

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Mon 15 Feb 2021

New OutThere Sailing online courses

Australian Sailing produced two new online courses for Discover Sailing Centres and qualified instructors wanting to deliver the OutThere Sailing programs.

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Mon 15 Feb 2021

Sport Australia launches new club planning tool

Sport Australia's Game Plan is a digital platform solution designed to support sporting clubs of all sizes with valuable insights into their strategic and operational capabilities and provide access to specific tools and resources to build and support ongoing development. 

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Wed 10 Feb 2021

New Judge Policy Update

The new Australian Sailing Judge Accreditation Policy is now active and its resources are available from the Australian Sailing website. The new policy contains changes to the Australian Sailing’s Judge qualification structure, qualification requirements, assessment and training resources. Further accreditation information and links for Race Officials can be found within this article.

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Thu 28 Jan 2021

SAILING Champions League - Asia Pacific: Qualifier 1 moves to Mornington Yacht Club

SAILING Champions League: Asia Pacific organisers have partnered with Mornington Yacht Club (MYC) as the official host club of the 2021 SCL – AP: Qualifier 1.

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Wed 06 Jan 2021

Australian Sailing - Marketing support for clubs

As we enter the Summer Sailing season we believe it timely to remind clubs of the great marketing resources we have available.

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Tue 08 Dec 2020

Welcome to our Playground - Channel 7 Sunrise

Last Thursday 3 December Sailing featured on Australia’s number one breakfast show Sunrise.

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Mon 07 Dec 2020

Sailing is set to feature on Australia’s number one breakfast show

Sailing is set to feature on Australia’s number one breakfast show tomorrow morning, with Channel Seven’s Sunrise program recording their weather reports from Sydney’s Middle Harbour Yacht Club.

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Wed 02 Dec 2020

Social media report: Sailing clubs sail through lockdown disruptions

Shunt Applied Creative an authority and thought leader in social media analytics for the Australian sports industry have just published a report outlining how well sailing clubs have done on facebook in 2020, read the report here.

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Wed 25 Nov 2020

Ensure Instructor and Sailing Coach qualifications are active

Australian Sailing qualified instructors and sailing coaches have the responsibility to keep their qualification active. The qualification active status will enable Discover Sailing Centres to allocate you as the instructor for their Australian Sailing accredited courses. In addition only with an active qualification instructors and coaches will be covered under the Australian Sailing insurance.

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Tue 10 Nov 2020

Instructor, Coach and Official finder and how to make yourself contactable

Australian Sailing qualified instructors, coaches and officials can be searched and contacted without disclosing their personal details via our qualification finder webpage.

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Tue 10 Nov 2020

COVID tracing options for clubs

As clubs return to sailing post COVID-19, there are many contact tracing options available

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Wed 28 Oct 2020

2020 Diversity Forum this Friday - Play by the Rules

There's still time to register for the 2020 Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Forum that will run online this Friday at 10.00 am AEST. Droughts, bushfires, floods and pandemics: the fundamental cultural change for inclusion and diversity in a new era.

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Thu 22 Oct 2020

Win monthly with Maui Jim Sunglasses x OutThere Sailing!

For your chance to score a pair of Maui Jim sunglasses of your choice get creative with your best #OutThereSailing social post!

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Tue 13 Oct 2020

Australian Sailing DMC Online Shop

DMC SPORT has recently upgraded their online shop interface. The old interface accounts and logins are no longer available. You no longer need to log in to DMC Shop to place an order, however, we do strongly advise Discover Sailing and Safety and Sea Survival Centres to create a new account and sign in when placing orders. This will allow your Centre to keep track of your past order information.

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Tue 13 Oct 2020