Yachting New South Wales teams up with New South Wales Maritime

6:19 AM Wed 4 May 2011 GMT

'Participants of the Yachting NSW Instructor Course trying out their new lifejackets donated by NSW Maritime' Kingsley Forbes Smith

As the state body for the sport of sailing, Yachting New South Wales has a regular program of courses designed to enhance the skills level and encourage participation of sailors at all levels of the sport. One of the key goals of the organisation is to assist sailing clubs across the state in running basic learn to sail programs. As part of this goal, a Dinghy Instructor and Powerboat Handling Course was recently run across five days out of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron. The course is designed to ensure a consistency of skill amongst instructors, and is structured around ...

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