As far as insurance do you know if being a member of AKSA is enough for racing?
I did send them an email via their contact on the web site but no reply

joely said...

From what I know the AKSA insurance is only public liability insurance that will cover if your kite damages something else ie gets caught in the power lines

afaiaa the aksa cover includes injury to another person up to $10mill not just damage to equipment

You would have thought YA would recognise us.

I work at a Yacht Club as a sailing manager and whilst I am very keen for kite racing to grow and expand.

YA are a bunch of money grabbing twits. We do not need to be part of them! They will just be someone else to pay money too. We already have our State Organisations Like WAKSA who do a great job, Then we have AKSA who are the national body. If we have Yachting australia and then their State bodies like Yachting WA

It will cost us all more money for no more gain.

Hey guys

Not sure about entries yet, I know there are a few people around Melbourne that are keen.

However the insurance bull**** is holding us all up. If we want to race out of yacht clubs and events like sail Melbourne we will more than likely need to become yachting Australia members.

The future of kite racing will be at yacht clubs, they have the infrastructure all set up and readiy to go, a strong volunteer base, meaning they have the race officers with the knowledge of how to properly set a course, the rescue boats and drivers.

The best thing would be that our aksa membership had an optional extra, the extra would register the kiters that wanted to race with yachting Australia. Meaning that we would have full insurance (provided we are included into the policy which is getting re-written mid September) and would not have to join a particular yacht club and could travel from event to event knowing that we are fully covered in the case of anything going wrong.

That's just my thoughts

If anyone from aksa is reading this is there anyway that this is possible?

That would be good.

from what i know normally you need to be part of a yacht club to become a yachting australia member. so it would be good if AKSA set themselves up as a club and had that extra available to racers.

i am sick of all this logistics rubbish i just want to start racing