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2019 WA Club Conference

27 July, 2019Royal Perth Yacht Club


Royal Perth Yacht Club Vice Commodore – Greg O’Neill

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Welcome

Australian Sailing |3 WA Club Conference


+ 57Instructors

+ 12Coaches

+ 11Instructor

Reaccreditations

+8Senior

Instructor/Coaches

+ 92Officials


+ 3562 Recreational Skippers

Tickets

+ 1399Keelboat Experiences

+ 720Tackers Experiences

+438 Powerboat Experiences

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Congratulations


2019 WA Award Winners

2019 Outstanding Contribution to Sailing - The RTYF Gold Medal: Chris Goldacre and Chris Kelly

2019 Outstanding Competitive Performance- The RTYF Gold Medal: Matt Wearn

2019 Youth Sailor Of The Year - The RTYF Silver Medal: Zac Littlewood

2019 Junior Sailor Of The Year - The RTYF Bronze Medal: Michael Compton

2019 WA Official Of The Year: Geoff Brown

2019 WA Coach Of The Year: Ben Walkemeyer

2019 WA Power Yacht Person: Mark Donati

2019 WA Volunteer Of The Year: Don Barker

2019 WA Instructor Of The Year: Brad Luketina

2019 WA Club of the Year – Category B (Volunteer Management): Jervoise Bay Sailing Club

2019 WA Club of the Year – Category A (Professional Management): Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club

2019 WA Sailor Of The Year With A Disability: Genevieve Wickham

2019 WA Sport Promotion Award: Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club Training Centre

2019 WA Sport Professional Award: Debbie Blaauw

2019 WA Female Sailor Of The Year: Zoe Thomson

2019 WA Male Sailor Of The Year: Matt Wearn

2019 WA Match Racing Sailor Of The Year: Will Boulden

2019 Offshore Sailor Of The Year: Anthony Kirke


Barranjoey Pin Recipients

Belinda Stowell

Brian Lewis

Willy Packer

Lloyd Lissiman

Chris Pratt

Graeme Martin OAM

National Awards nominations open soon. 2020 WA Awards to be held in September –national alignment.


Australian Sailing is the governing body for the sport of Sailing in Australia. We are responsible for the administration, promotion and development of sailing. We are a member based organisation that represent the interests and provides services & support to over 360 clubs across Australia as well as more than 160 accredited Discover Sailing Centres.

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What is Australian Sailing’s role?


About Australian Sailing

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Australian Sailing Targets

300,000 participants

100,000 club members

0 Fatalities or major incidents

> 40% Females

20,000 students

200 DSC’s

Our challenge:


Governance Update

Governance structure - One Management Model– Yachting NSW has established a Regional Advisory Committee

-Changes to AS constitution-NSW Clubs are members of AS-Voting rights-Committee charter

– Yachting TAS has resolved to establish a Regional Advisory Committee


High Performance

• On track for Tokyo with 3 strong medal chances

• 4 classes qualified at so far: 470M, Nacra 17, 49erFX and Laser

• Olympic test event (2018): 1 x gold (Nacra 17), 2 x silver (470M, Laser)

• 2024 events (classes) announced:– 30% men, 30% Female, 40% Mixed – Introduction of Kiteboarding & Offshore– 470 M & W combined in to Mixed event– Single Handed classes (Laser, Radial) confirmed– Windsurfer equipment to be reviewed


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State # clubs ResponsesACT 4 2NSW 103 97NT 3 1

QLD 55 27SA 36 18

TAS 29 14VIC 89 52WA 38 25

Total 357 236


President’s Update

Yachting WA President Rob Rooke

• One Management Model-Financial transparency -Review Service Level Agreement-Safety-Race Officials

• YWA Governance -Update on strategy-AGM/Board composition-RTO

• Government relationships



Australian Sailing WA-Office Review

Andy Fethers Regional Manager of Australian Sailing WA Office

• Swan River Sailing completed an operational review of the WA-Office on 15th of December

• A mission statement was set to;• Become the highest functioning office in the AS network• Achieve alignment with Australian Sailing considering the AS and YWA Strategic

Plans; and• To become a key contributor to AS and Boating within Western Australia

• Key Objectives were identified


Objective: Improve staff culture and outputAction:

• Obtained optimum staff levels • Full Time = RM, x2 Club Service Officers• Part Time = x1 Club Services Officer, x1 RTO Principle and x1 Administration

Assistant

• Tracking activities via a CRM

• Re assigned staff roles to match the skills of the team members


Key Objectives


Staff Role Allocation REGIONAL MANAGER

Andy Fethers

Reporting to YWA Board

Reporting to AS

Club Affiliations

Members’ Information

Sessions/AGM

DoT/MF

CSO (P/T)Leanne Alderson

Calendars-Coastal

-Swan River

Awards-State

-National

Member Protection

Westsail/State Youth Championships

Ron Tough Yachting Foundation

Accounts-Office expenses

-Asset management-Invoices

CSOJenn Suffield

Courses and Training

Discover Sailing Centres

Safety

Community Engagement

Projects

CSOKate Wearn

Funding/Government Relations

Club/Instructor Conferences

Communications

Major Events Support

Risk Register

Projects

ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT (P/T)Morgan Gurney

General Reception Duties

Phone and Email Enquiries

Meeting Organisation

Drafting Meeting Minutes

Drafting Office Documents

RTO MANAGERGrant Hunt

RST and Audits

Exemption 38 Courses

Radio Courses


Objective: Implement financial and/or non-financial charges for servicing non-core activitiesAction:

• Profit centered the fees for Recreational Skippers Tickets. Power boating represents 60%-70% of our members. 70% of RST’s are delivered by our 63 affiliated assessors.

• Reset the relationship with Ron Tough Yachting Foundation who will be supporting AS at Westsail but in 2020 but we will not be co-hosting an awards night. Freeing the office from the associated administrating processes

• Begun to streamline the processes for Swan River Racing and Offshore Calendars


Key Objectives


Key Objectives

Objective: Increase State Based FundingAction:

• Reset with Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) resulting in;

• Increased funding $140K to $180K for 3 years. (Additional $20K @ 20,000 members)

• Received Tier 2 event funding for $15K for the Moth Worlds. Two addition event grants submitted

• Received $9K for Officials and regional instructor training

• Re-established a relationship with Healthway resulting in $15k of funding for;• Westsail and Perth International Boat Show

• We will continue to seek out other resources such as VolunteeringWA and Sponsorship


Key ObjectivesObjective: Increase Programs, Education and Online Services outputAction:

• Identified that less than 1% of our Members are Officials. • Resetting the focus of the Racing Officials Committee from rules towards

recruitment.• Developed online resources on “How To”, Lay marks, Club Judging, Club

Scoring etc targeted at lowest level of officiating• Increase funding from DLGSC

• Identified Instructor training was scheduled on an adhoc basis and the number of Senior Instructors (SI’s) significantly below national averages

• Developed an 18 month rolling calendar of instructor courses• Bolstering SI numbers• Implemented an additional accredited Sea Safety and Survival Centre

• Increasing the volume of certified Officials and Instructors goes a long way towards administrating safe boating activities within member clubs.


Major Events Schedule



Objective: Realign youth events and review WAIS fundingAction:

• Implemented two streams at Westsail, Performance and Participation with the goal to have 100 youths in attendance.• Retained Ron Tough Funding• Secured new sponsorship with Healthway• Hosted 2019 at RFBYC and 2020 at HYC

• Conducted a performance review with the DLGSC highlighting the programs is healthy. Reviewed the allocation of $49K ($20K of DLGSC and $29K of Member funds) as appropriate given the $522K overall budget.

• National Underpinning review ongoing. WA identified as best practice.


Key Objectives


Objective: Increase visibility of existing Australian Sailing activitiesAction:

• Implemented a monthly newsletter with state specific operational content.

• Social media reset through training and planning. Operational page WA Staff and a Group page open for Members.

• Requested WAIS and the Western Australian State Squad branding and marketing to reflect the member contribution

• Will be marketing the RTO (RST’s) starting with boat licencing at the Boat Show under AS branding

• Opened the member quarterly meeting to individuals, class associations and clubs

• Developed a media pathway for the publishing of content to existing AS club, state and national news


Key Objectives


Media Flow ChartThe West Australian

Sport FM

Media

Class Associations

Clubs

Members

Staff (Operational News)

WA Survey Form

AS WAB(KW)

AS Communications

Team MM & ES

State News (tagged) Social Media

Media

The West Australian

Sport FM

Assess Urgency

Timeline 7 – 30 days

WA Branch Media

https://www.sailing.org.au/surveys/795/

https://www.sailing.org.au/surveys/795/


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2019 WA Club Conference

27 July, 2019Royal Perth Yacht Club

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