Every Yacht Club throughout New Zealand is invited to affiliate to Yachting New Zealand

To become an Affiliated Club, the club is first a member of their Regional Yachting Association. Your membership contribution helps Yachting New Zealand deliver a comprehensive package of products and services specifically designed to affect the advancement and growth of yachting in New Zealand.

If you would like to support yachting in New Zealand, and the work of Yachting New Zealand, we invite you to affiliate your Club. Click here to download the club membership affiliation form or contact us for more information.

The Affiliation Fee

Each club contributes a levy based on their total membership income and their senior membership fee (a formula is used to calculate a number of senior equivalent members). The fee is not a ‘per member’ based fee and affiliates the club rather than individuals.

• If a club has $5000 of subscription income made up from 35 senior members at $100, 50 juniors at $10, 5 family members $150, and 10 country members at $25… the calculation is as follows:
  Total Membership Income ($5000) divided by the senior sub ($100) gives 50 Senior Equivalent Members.
  Club affiliation would be calculated at:
  50 Senior Equivalent Members (SEMs) multiplied by $34 (the present SEM levy agreed to and set by members of Yachting New Zealand at the recent Annual General Meeting) plus Resource Management levy (environmental).
• The significant advantage of this system is it allows all member clubs to have flexibility in the categories of membership and our fee is not based on any one type of club membership. Many of our clubs have family, country, junior, senior, overseas, ramp-users, social and non-sailing members with a wide range of membership options specific to their clubs needs.

Affiliation as Club provides...

• A ‘subsite’ hosted free of charge on www.yachtingnz.org.nz  
• Your events, seminars and regattas published to www.yachtingnz.org.nz
• Use of the Yachting New Zealand Racing Rules of Sailing and prescriptions, and access to the Yachting New Zealand administered appeals process.
• Voting rights at the Yachting New Zealand Annual General Meeting
• Each year, Yachting New Zealand will forward to you a copy of the Yachting New Zealand Annual Report and Financial statements.
• As a Yachting New Zealand affiliated Club, you are invited to utilise Yachting New Zealand’s Programmes, Products and Services – including National training schemes – such as the ‘Learn to…’ series, and coach training, Race Management - including National Race Officers, race management training, and event management packs
• Yachting New Zealand’s staff are available to you for guidance and training for general enquiries and also for specific information within their specialist fields

Yachting New Zealand: Representing the needs and interests of all members...

Education
Providing training for coaches, instructors, race officers, judges, umpires and race management volunteers

Regional Support
Providing a network of four Regional Support Officers working with clubs and regions nationwide

National Programmes
Management and support of national sailing programmes including Learn-to-Sail, SailSafe, Sailing… Have a Go! and NCEA

Learn to Sail
Maintaining and developing the syllabus for dinghy and keelboat learn to sail programmes ensuring the quality of sail training courses nationwide

Technical & Safety Support
Providing technical and safety support for yacht owners via Yachting New Zealand’s Safety Inspectors

Exemptions to Maritime Laws
Gained exemptions regarding speed restrictions, boat licensing and Safe Ship Management (SSM) to name a few

Information for Members
Acting as an information point for members’ enquiries via phone, email, Briefings, Yachting Quarterly, Lifelines Safety Newsletter and our comprehensive website

Relationships with Media
Promoting Yachting New Zealand activities and yachting and boating profile to the wider public

Trust Funding
Providing a point of reference for most charitable trusts. Many of the Trusts now require affiliation to a national body

Advocacy & Representation
Providing a strong and informed voice to protect the freedoms and interests of members – making representation to national and local government on issues such as marine farming, maritime safety, licensing, fees and environmental matters

ISAF
Yachting New Zealand provides representation for the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). ISAF governs the rules we race under, only affiliated clubs are allowed to race under these rules.

High Performance
Managing support and development of high performance sailors in preparation for international competition including the Olympics