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Trustees of the Port Nicholson Yachting Trust     

In 2001 the Port Nicholson Yachting Trust was incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957. The Trustees are ...

Murray Bridge (Chair)
Peter Vause
Dean Stanley
Brian Budd
Stewart Thwaites (Founder of the Trust)
Maurice Scott (Secretary)

Past trustees

Brendon Hogg
Warren Williams
Peter Sutton
Ian Gentleman
Mike Boswell
Steven Moir
Jamie McDowell 

Purposes of the Port Nicholson Yachting Trust     

The Port Nicholson Yachting Trust is affiliated to Yachting New Zealand. Its purposes are ...  

(a) promoting and fostering in Wellington and throughout New Zealand he development of yachting and boating skills and providing facilities for training and practical yachting and boating experience and generally promoting, fostering and assisting the development of skills, initiative and independence.  

(b) promoting and organising in Wellington and New Zealand yachting and boating competitions in categories defined by the Trustees and recognizing excellence by presentation of awards, scholarships or other monetary assistance, in promoting yachting and boating ability of competitors and award winners.  

(c) to acquire and make available yachts and other boats and equipment suitable for training and developing appropriate skills.

Brief history of the activities of the Port Nicholson Yachting Trust  

The first ongoing programme that the trust established is the Port Nicholson Yachting Trust Youth Scheme. The Trust has made available to the Wellington youth yachting community a fleet of four Elliot 6 Metre keelboats, a chase boat and funding to run a coaching programme for sailors. The Trust sets the direction for the Scheme and provides governance of its implementation. The Trust engages the Sailing Academy to implement the scheme's coaching programmes.

During the 2002-3 and 2003-4 seasons more than thirty sailors benefited from a full year programme of match racing coaching. Some sailors from the scheme in these years went on to establish match racing teams and are competing in the international match racing circuit. Others have used skills developed whilst on the scheme to improve their own dinghy sailing programmes. Yet others have gone on to careers in the general yachting industry both in New Zealand and overseas.

At the end of the 2003-4 season the trustees took stock of progress that had been made and reviewed the direction in which the scheme had been operating. As a result of the review process it was decided to build on the successes of the early years and begin expanding the scheme to cater for the coaching needs of the wider youth yachting community in the Wellington region. During the seasons from 2004-7 the trust developed and implemented a coaching programme for all youth classes including Ps, Starlings, 420s, Lasers as well as e6 match racing.

During the 2006-7 season the Trust began working with Yachting New Zealand and the New Zealand Academy of Sport to build on the coaching programme in order to establish a regional talent development programme. During the 2007-8 season, with work nearly completed on the talent development project, a decision was made by the trustees to focus on expanding the match racing programmes offered in Wellington region to include a secondary schools component, a women on water component, a winter match racing programme and a Wellington Under 21 and women's match racing squad. The implementation of this next phase in the evolution of the scheme forms the focus for the trust during the 2008-9 season.

Key planning and review documentation