Role rules
Set the training, age or club approval needed for a role.
Duty management
Sailing Club Duty Management
Match roles to members, training and availability before the event starts. 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
See gaps and limits early
Organisers can check cover while members see their own work and swap options.
Fair assignments
Review past work, exemptions and gaps before publishing.
Clear changes
Keep offers, swaps and organiser changes in the same record.
Related pages: the sailing club duty software overview, SailHQ for race officers and duty access and permissions.
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 sourceTrack Yachting New Zealand training.
Yachting New Zealand supports Learn to Sail delivery through clubs and accredited providers. Dinghy and keelboat pathways need the completed stage to remain visible.
What the club record should hold.
Write the syllabus stage, delivery club, boat pathway and coach status into the person's boating history.
Open the official sourceRecord 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.