I’m not sure of the AUSA formation date, only that it would be after the formation of the NSW Boardsailing Assoc in 1988. AUSA was run out of NSW with Bill Joselin being on the committee for many years.

Bill Joselin (NSW), Bruce McPhail (Vic) and John Rohde (SA) were some of the people involved in the drafting the AWA constitution.

Up until the mid 80’s, Windsurfer One Design ruled.

Here are some SA Milestones – Do you have any additional State/National Milestones (Establishment dates) to add??

8th June 2011:
25th Anniversary of WindsurfingSA
formerly SA Board Sailing Assoc Inc.

7th September 2011:
15th Anniversary of Windsurfing.org website

2007:
Australia celebrates the
30th Annual Windsurfer Class Nationals

July/Aug 2008:
Events that would have been celebrated if the organisations still existed
30th Anniversary of the SA Windsurfer Class assoc.
SA’s first windsurfing assoc.
I remember being on the committee when it was formed – windsurfer one design hasn’t changed much in that time, but little changes in those early days seemed to be quite significant at the time.

25th Anniversary of the SA Funboard Assoc.
both groups were supposed to dissolve on the creation of the SA Boardsailing Association, but for various reasons, it never happened.

363 numbers fell into that category @ 01/07/2011.
For further details on who’s affected and which numbers,
go to the AWA website

The event is invitation only, and is to be raced on supplied and new Mistral One Design equipment.

The Australian Windsurfing Association (AWA) is pleased to announce that based on the 2011 Raceboard Oceanic Championship results, John Demol (1st ranked) and Benjamin Morrell (3rd ranked) will be representing Australia.The AWA would also like to take this opportunity to wish James Grunfelder (2nd ranked) and the other Australian representatives the best of luck at the Raceboard Worlds, to be held at L’Hospitalet de l’lnfant, Tarragona, Spain, from 3rd-10th September 2011

Brett Morris (AWA President)

The standard Cull Rules still apply – if a sailor is unfinancial for 2 consecutive years, their registered sail number may be reallocated.

AWA Sec/Treasurer – John Rohde

South Australia’s renewal forms can be downloaded via the following links: PDF & Word Doc (editable)

For more SA Windsurfing info see www.windsurfing.org/sa.htm

14-19 Sail Melbourne (RSX) & ISAF Sailing World Cup
  Sandringham Beach – Melbourne – Vic
  Sandringham Yacht Club
  web link – for more information

JANUARY 2010
06-10 Bic Techno Youth Nationals and Oceanics
  Largs Bay – Adelaide – SA
  Largs Bay Sailing Club
  Michael Simms 0418 802 634
  simms.michael@flindersports.com.au
  incorporating the U19, U17 and U15 divisions for the 
  Techno 293 Oceania Championships
  web link – for more information

23-26 Windsurfer One Design Nationals
  Soldiers Point, Salamander Bay – Port Stephens NSW
  Chris Thompson 0405 160 125
  cthom249@tpg.com.au
  web link – for more information

FEBRUARY 2010
03-06 Formula Windsurfing Australian Champs and Oceanics
  Jimmys Beach – Hawkes Nest – Port Stephens – NSW
  Windsurfing NSW
  Sean O’Brien 0402 467 857
  seanobrien@aus120.com
  web link – for more information

03-06 Wave Sailing Nationals (updated 18/12/2009)
  Margaret River – WA (Surfers Point)
  Windsurfing WA
  Terry North 0409 441 321
  terry.north@kineticit.com.au *
  web link – for more information *

JULY 2010
31 Jul – 07 Aug Slalom Nationals
  Lord Howe Island
  Windsurfing NSW
  Tim Northham (02) 6563 2399 / 6563 2400
  pandanuslhi@clearmail.com.au
  web link – for more information

Additional notice of race links are present @ www.windsurfing.org

The members at the meeting felt that this change wasn’t appropriate. The ongoing funds surplus is chiefly generated by insurance payments for more members than quoted for the policy. We need to keep that surplus in case the insurer decides to recover an additional levy for that insurance period.

But, there are some surplus funds and they will be re-distributed in the form of a grant for national events.

Strategic Plan/Budget for AWA Expenditure
the AWA Committee generally agreed that

• the AWA was more involved/effective at improvements driven from top (National) down, and that efforts /expenditure direct from AWA was similarly more effective focused on these Top and middle level activities

• grass roots/entry level activities and expenditure were more effectively/efficiently handled at state and local level

• the AWA should target/budget/plan for some modest income (either fee or insurance based) ~ around $3,000/year at current rates/levels

• this money should be re-used to develop/improve the “National” impetus, through support of supplementary funding to (certain specified) expenses within a defined range of National Championships (etc)

General discussion on that was 3-4 classes or disciplines per year, with a general cap on funding of (say) $1,000 per event/discipline, which in turn would be made up of (capped) funding of certain specified individual sub expenses (eg : race officer or director travel expenses, say capped to $300 per event). General underlying principle being this AWA funding to ONLY be available for use in defined expenses aimed at the goal of ongoing improvement in a National event quality (etc) – rather than simply provided as “general expenses” income to local organisers of National events.

Based on this discussion and WA’s question re expenditure or cost cutting to improve entry level activity by state/s

• AWA revenue NOT allocated under the Nationals allocations could be made available (perhaps on an annual end of year basis or similar) for States to apply to AWA for funding for use (by states) in State driven “development of sport program/s”.

• That’s to say, a national pool of “surplus” income may exist at the end of each AWA year. Rather than simply continue to stockpile further “profits”, that revenue is made available for EQUITABLE distribution to those states who wish to commit to structured “development of sport” program/s – and are prepared to commit to match the AWA funding with funding from within their home state/s.

A very simple definition/qualification/application/approval process would suffice, and the key factor would/could be that any AWA funding to the states under this program MUST be matched by the (applying) state/s on (say ) a ” 1 for 1 ” basis.

• i.e. $1 from AWA towards program MUST be matched by $1 contributed by state to same program/event

• a $1 AWA contribution : $2 State contribution might be even better ratio This initiative may be much easier in practice than it may sound at first. It clears the way to reasonable (re) use of funding in all respects, removes (implied) stigma of AWA “profiteering”. Most importantly, opens the resource for (equitable) use by those States WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO DO SOMETHING.

Constructive feedback welcome…

Full Minutes of AWA Annual General Meeting 2009

[21/10/2008]
Please be aware that the Nov 2008 Slalom National Championship have been relocated to Ramsgate Beach, Sydney, 8-9 Nov 2008.

Poster 165kb PDF
Notice of Race 45kb PDF

Unfortunately the Sandy Point venue became untenable for a number of reasons, and whilst we had fought to keep that event/venue happening, the general consensus was to relocate.

AWA Draft Calendar 2008-09 (Adobe PDF) or

@AWA website www.windsurfing.org/calendar.htm