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President's Contibution - June 2023

I need to thank you for the positive reception of last month’s contribution. I feel that the value proposition is starting to take hold, and I have a sense that the concept of a “community of sailors” is becoming a reality. Hopefully, we are nearing a point where “What does South African Sailing do for me?” will be replaced by “What can I do to nurture sailing?”
SA Sailing News National Provincial transformation development Sailing
Mon 03 Jul 2023

Training and Development

SA Sailing will be running an Online Safety Officer Course during September/October 2023 We are looking at doing approximately 4-6 online sessions in the evening twice a week, which will be run by SA Sailing Senior Safety Officer, Gavin Van Der Meulen. Those interested, please contact the SA Sailing office. National Training Programme The National Training Programme (NTP) continues to grow. Find out more on the following: Quick Links: Learn to Sail Programme Race officials Programme Tra
Sailing News SA Sailing Training and Development
Wed 31 May 2023

Regional News

Remember to catch up on what’s been going on in the various regions throughout the month by keeping an eye out for the Weekend Washups on SA Sailing’s social media channels. Facebook; Instagram. Race Management May 2023 "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time:. Murphy is alive and well and working his law at all sailing events. Due to the light shifty winds and late summer storms on the Vaal, races were a bit behind at the recent Dart 18 Nationals so the Race
Sailing News SA Sailing Regional News
Wed 31 May 2023

Celebrating youth month: A Dabchick social media storm

The Dabchick class seems to be taking social media by storm with their following growing on a daily basis. This is mainly due to the efforts of Hamilton Slater (with the assistance of his parents Karen and Rob), class chairman Matthew de Villiers and Luke de Villiers, whose main motivation is to share the fun side of Dabchick sailing. We caught up with Hamilton to find out more… What inspired this social media campaign for the Dabchick class? The social media pages were created as a platform t
Sailing News SA Sailing Dachick South Africa
Wed 31 May 2023

Vasco da Gama- it's a wrap!

Africa’s oldest ocean coastal race, the Vasco da Gama Ocean Race, organised by Point Yacht Club and Buffalo River Yacht Club, set off from Durban on 30 April 2023 with the finish approximately 300 nautical miles later in East London. Congratulations to race winners Regardless 2, skippered by Sean Jones, and all those who took part. See results here. Check out some of the photos and videos of the action on the race’s official Facebook page.
Sailing News SA Sailing Vasco da Gama
Wed 31 May 2023

Adaptive sailing in Pretoria

Part of SA Sailing’s mission is to make sailing accessible to all South Africans. That’s why we were so excited by this adaptive sailing plan for Pretoria Sailing Club… Adaptive sailing project plan for Pretoria Sailing Club Mission/objective To provide the possibility for people with mobility impairments to use the club facilities and be able to sail or canoe. By doing so to be able to attract new members to the club who have disabilities as well as to support current club members who may ha
Sailing News SA Sailing Adaptive Sailing Pretoria Sailing Club
Wed 31 May 2023

SA Sailing National Awards open voting

South African Sailing invites you to submit your vote for the 2022 Annual Awards covering the period 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. Submit your vote by selecting the nominee you feel most deserves the award. Check out the nominees here. This voting process is only for categories where more than one finalist has qualified. Only categories with valid finalists will be awarded. The voting process closes on midnight, 30 June 2023 following which the SA Sailing Council will review the votes r
Sailing News SA Sailing National Awards
Wed 31 May 2023

2023 Youth Worlds Team Announcement

Five young sailors have been selected to represent South Africa at the 2023 Youth Sailing World Championships in the coastal resort town of Armação dos Búzios, Brazil from 8-16 December. Taking to the water in the girls’ 29er class are sisters Ingrid and Lena Holm. “At the moment we are quite busy with school so we are struggling to get on the water to train, but we are spending lots of time working on our tactics and strategy at home (which is at the moment our weakest point that needs the
Sailing News SA Sailing 2023 Youth Worlds Team Announcement
Wed 31 May 2023

President's Update

I want to revisit the old chestnut - "What does South African Sailing do for me?" Maybe, this time, I will reverse the order in which I address the issues, although, in my view, the precedence of order is often in the eyes of the member. We are a diverse community, with diverse interests and diverse orders of importance. Right at this moment, my attention is focussed on access to water and tenure to the premises from which we operate. In this past week, I had a ver successful meeting at just
Sailing News SA Sailing President Update
Wed 31 May 2023