Membership

Course Participent

If you are enrolling in a course you must be a member of Australian Sailing. To do this you can sign up for a course participant membership with the club that will allow you to register. The course participant membership does not allow you to sail with the club externally to the sailing course.

Membership & Fees

Thanks for joining us! If you know what membership suits you, please click above to go straight to our membership signup, otherwise read below for the options and benefits available to you.

Most common membership prices:

Senior: $307
Junior (19 and under): $65
Student: $130
Course Participant: Free (payment is to be made on the course page)

Membership Types and Benefits

We have various memberships to suit our members as listed below.

Junior: For under 19 years. Can rent space in the boatshed and access to members only pricing for club activities. 10% discount on Learn to Sail Programs and Club merchandise.

School: Same as Junior but cannot rent space in boatshed, hire club boats to travel to away regattas or participate in Youth Squads. Must pay race fees if sailing in Club races.

Student: Full time tertiary students aged 19-24 years. Senior membership benefits included.

Senior: Can rent space in the boatshed and access to members only pricing for club activities. 10% discount on Learn to Sail Programs and Club merchandise. Entitled to 1 vote at the Club’s Annual Meeting.

Kayak/Canoe: For non-sailors wishing to purchase kayak or canoe storage. Senior membership privileges included.

Family: Membership for families who have 3 or more Sailing or Associate Members within the family including at least 1 Junior Member. Respective Senior and Junior membership privileges included.

Associate: For those who wish to belong and contribute to the club but not sail. Covered by Club insurance when participating in Club activities but Associate members cannot race, rent space in the boat shed or hire club boats.

ANU Sailing Club Sailing: Restricted membership available to student and graduate members of the ANU Sailing Club who wish to participate in YMCA Canberra Sailing Club races only. No other membership privileges included.

ANU Sailing Club Australian Sailing Registration: Obtains Australian Sailing membership but no privileges with the YMCA Canberra Sailing Club.

Temporary Trial Membership – Sail Pass: The traditional route into dinghy sailing for a beginner is either to crew for a mate who owns a boat or to do a course. If you are not part of a sailing circle finding someone willing to take on an inexperienced crew is a challenge. Completing a course is a significant financial commitment. If you follow either of these paths you then have to become a member of a club before you can crew in races. Sail Pass is a way of easing into sailing without a large financial commitment via a temporary membership. A Sail Pass package entitles you to participate in Club races, sample our culture and decide if sailing really is for you at a very reasonable price. Sail Pass packages are for 4 or 6 days.

Australian Sailing Number

An Australian Sailing (AS) Number is your unique identifier in the sport of Sailing in Australia that recognises you as a member of an affiliated club. Once you are registered in the system, you are generated:

An Australian Sailing number
A system username (first initial)(last name)(and maybe a 1, 2, 3, ...) such as jblow2
An online profile

A key benefit of your AS number is that if you enter a regatta, enrol for a course or join a new club you identify yourself to Australian Sailing (with your userid and password), which brings up the relevant parts of your online profile. You then only have to complete any questions specific to the event.

If you enrol in a course, sign up for Sail Pass or join a club you will be assigned an Australian Sailing number. If you want to do any of these things and think you may already have an AS number check here.

Family Memberships

Our definition of a family is at least 3 members, at least one of whom must be a junior. You will find that seperate memberships for a parent and child is cheaper than a Family membership. If you are a couple sailing together please approach the Club for a discount.

Within Famlly Memberships we have three classes, Family Paying Parent, Family Non-paying Adult and Family Non-paying Juniors. The Family Paying Parent pays the full fee, the other two classes are free. To ensure that we can link members within a family, Family Non-paying Adult and Family Non-paying Junior memberships require you to enter the Australian Sailing Number of the Family Paying Parent member. For this reason you should note it when registering or renewing your membership. Alternatively click here.

Managing Your Family

RevolutioniseSPORTS allows you to specify a primary family member for each family member profile. One primary family member can be linked to many secondary family members. If enabled, primary family members will be able to access basic details of their family members via the members area on your public website, including any outstanding invoices and payment history. This is useful if you have a teenager who has set their own password for their member profile, but still expects you to pay for course enrolments or regatta entries. If you wish to activate this feature please contact us at sailing.club@ymca.org.au

Sail Pass

When you sign up for Sail Pass you can choose up to 4 or 6 Saturdays. With a fee of $16 per Saturday that is up to $64 or $96. Note that our Race Fee for casual sailors is $20 per Saturday. If you choose to become a permenant member of the Club whatever you have paid will be credited towards the cost of your permanent membership. If you decide to purchase say 2 Saturdays you must either join the Club as a permenant member or pay Race Fees for any subsequent Saturday.

Some Saturdays may be blocked. There is no Club racing on these Saturdays.

Sailpass does not count for Tuesday twilight learner races.

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