Australian Sailing

Australian Sailing

Sport	Sailing
Jurisdiction	Australia
Abbreviation	AS
Founded	1956 (1956)
Affiliation	ISAF
Affiliation date	1967
Regional affiliation	OSAF
Headquarters	St Leonards, New South Wales
President	David Gotze
Chief Exec	Phil Jones
Official website
www.sailing.org.au

Logo of the governing body under its previous name

Australian Sailing is recognised by the International Sailing Federation^[1] as the governing body for the sport of sailing in Australia. The Yachting Australia training department facilitates yachting national training schemes for the industry.^[2]

Australian Sailing was previously named Yachting Australia. The name change occurred along with governance reforms that concluded in July 2016.^[3]

Background

Australian Sailing sees its key responsibilities as:^[4]

• Promotion of sailing
• Management of training
• Development of athletes
• Selection of teams
• Support of sailors
• Coordination of events
• Governance of the sport
• Servicing of members

Clubs

Famous yacht clubs include the Cruising Club of Australia and the Royal Sydney Yacht Club.

High profile regatta

• Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
• Geelong Week
• Sail Melbourne

Famous sailors

See Category:Australian sailors

Olympic sailing

See Category:Olympic sailors of Australia

Offshore sailing

See Category:Australian sailors (sport)
One of the most famous sailing team of all time was that of America's Cup entry of Alan Bond and the 12 metre, Australia II who broke the longest unbeaten run in international sport by winning the event from the American challenger.

Marine industry

The marine industry is strong the most high profile builder are McConaghy Boats and Sydney Yachts / Bashford International.

See also

• Sailability Australia

References

External links

• Official website
• ISAF MNA Microsite

National members of World Sailing
Equipment (World Sailing classes)
Africa (ASCON)	ALG ANG BOT EGY KEN LBA MAD MRI MAR MOZ NAM NIG SEN SEY RSA SUD TAN TUN ZIM
Asia (ASF)	AZE BRN CHN HKG IND INA IRI JPN KAZ KOR PRK KUW KGZ LIB MAS MYA OMA PAK PLE PHI QAT KSA SIN SRI THA UAE
Central and South America (SASC)	ARG BRA CHI COL ECU MEX PAN PAR PER URU VEN
Europe (EUROSAF)	AND ARM AUT BLR BEL BUL CRO CYP CZE DEN ESP EST FIN FRA GER GBR GRE HUN ISL IRL ISR ITA KOS LAT LIE LTU LUX MKD MLT MDA MON MNE NED NOR POL POR ROU RUS SMR SRB SVK SLO SWE SUI TUR UKR
Oceania (OSAF)	ASA AUS COK FIJ GUM NZL PNG SAM SOL TAH VAN
North America and Caribbean	ANT ARU BAH BAR BER IVB CAN CAY CUB DOM SAL GRN GUA JAM AHO PUR LCA TTO ISV USA
World championships in sailing - Sailing at the Summer Olympics - Sailing at the Summer Paralympics