Become a Race Official
Race officials play an important role in the promotion, organization and administration of competitive sailing. Volunteers involved in race administration, judging and umpiring are encouraged to take part in the certification program that has been set up to develop their experience and knowledge.
You want to be a Race Official?
There are four certification levels. The first two, Assistant Race Officer (ARO) and Club Race Officer (CRO), are offered by the Quebec Sailing Federation, while the third and fourth levels are managed by the Canadian Yachting Association (CYA).
- Click to learn more about:
- the dates, locations, and to registerfor a clinic organized by the FVQ;
- Race Official certifications, how long they are valid, and their prerequisites;;
- the status of your Race Official account.
Recertification and Level 2 Certification
- We encourage all our race officials to send us a copy of their race management experience every season in order to maintain a valid certification or in order to obtain their level 2.
- You can download the form for race officials here.. The judge and umpire recertification forms are also available on this page.
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You want to be a Judge?
The Sail Canada Judges Program requirements are that a judge has to have attended a seminar (or seminars) which cover Parts 1 -7 of the rule book. The Rules seminar covers basically Parts 1, 2 and 3. The other seminar, on Protests, covers whatever else is needed.
For people who wish to be judges, they have to attend both days OR they have to have completed one of the days somewhere else – and attend for the parts they have missed.
The Rules seminar is an interactive seminar i.e. with 25 scenarios in pictures (TSS) which the instructor displays and then get the class to tell him which rules apply and why. Incidentally, every person in the class will have a rule book in front of them.
The Protest seminar consists of a morning with the instructor talking and then he splits the class into groups of four or five, and then they practice a number of hearing scenarios that he has prepared. He critiques each group in turn. The groups change and everyone has a chance to practice being chairman, panel member, protestor, protestee etc.
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You want to organize a training session at your club?
You are a Race Official and you are not on the Sail Canada list of race officials?
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A list of certified race officials is available on the Sail Canada website
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If you are a certified race official but your name is not listed, please contact us.
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