Club Branding and Website

Club branding

Club Branding and Website

Use club colours, marks and contact details without making a separate app. This edition is written for New Zealand yacht clubs.

Yachting New Zealand is the national body for sailing and boating. Affiliation matters because a club using the Racing Rules of Sailing must belong to the national body.

Reviewed 21 August 2026

Duty roster

Keep identity clear across member pages

The club controls its brand while SailHQ keeps text and controls readable.

Club colours

Set the main colours used across the portal and public pages.

Club mark

Use the club logo or burgee in the shared layout.

Safe contrast

SailHQ creates readable text colours from the chosen brand.

Related pages: SailHQ brand assets, the product screenshot gallery and branding for yacht clubs.

Checked country guidance

Make affiliation part of the club record.

Yachting New Zealand links racing rules, safety regulations, training and the annual member return.

Keep Yachting New Zealand affiliation current.

Yachting New Zealand represents affiliated yacht and boating clubs. A club must be affiliated if it wants to run racing under the Racing Rules of Sailing.

What the club record should hold.

Assign the annual member return and levy calculation to a named officer. Preserve the affiliation contact used when national support is requested.

Open the official source

Follow the Privacy Act 2020.

The Privacy Act applies to clubs and societies that hold personal information. A club must appoint a privacy officer and follow 13 privacy principles.

What the club record should hold.

Record the privacy officer, purpose, access rule and serious-harm assessment route for club data.

Open the official source

Record child safeguarding work.

Yachting New Zealand supports club leaders with child safeguarding practices and training. Its coaching recognition pathway includes a Child Safeguarding module.

What the club record should hold.

Track the club policy, safeguarding contact, coach module status and route for reporting concerns.

Open the official source
Product scope

Know what SailHQ does today

SailHQ keeps the committee record. Yachting New Zealand, Maritime New Zealand and government agencies keep the official rules.

In SailHQ now

Members, households, duty roster, race series, boats, roles, weather and the club portal.

Kept in specialist systems

Race scoring, fee collection, formal accounts and advice from official or professional sources.

Common questions

New Zealand club questions

It can keep member categories and the responsible officer clear. The club still submits the official return through Yachting New Zealand.

Yes. Link the category, inspection or dispensation decision to the event and the officer who checked it.

No. SailHQ manages club records. Race scoring, fee collection and formal accounts stay in specialist systems.

Yes. The committee can set local roles and record the training the club accepts.

The main app and database are hosted in the UK. Clubs abroad should include this in their privacy review.

SailHQ records payment status but does not collect fees. Clubs can keep using BECS Direct Debit or their current provider.

Bring your New Zealand club records to the demo

See the affiliation return, levy categories and roster roles reflected in one New Zealand setup.