About Us

Purpose, Mission and Priorities

Purpose

Inspire, empower and grow vibrant sailing communities around the world

Mission

Develop sailing as a sport with integrity, sustainability and credibility at its heart, enabling global growth through innovation, backed by robust financial decisions to create lasting legacies for generations to come.

Priorities

• Events and Commercial – Embracing digital technologies, we will enable delivery of world-class events which are exciting to watch, easy to understand and easy to find, underpinned by a commercial strategy which strengthens our investment in the sport.
• Growth – We will work with our National Federations, Classes and Continental Associations to provide more opportunities for more people to reach their potential through sailing.
• Governance – We will implement our newly-transformed governance model, enabling us to operate efficiently, transparently and collaboratively in the best interests of our members and our sport as a whole.
• Impact – We will generate measurable economic, environmental and social impact for our global sailing community.

World Sailing is responsible for:

• the promotion of the sport internationally;
• managing sailing at the Olympic and Paralympic Games;
• developing the Racing Rules of Sailing and regulations for all sailing competitions;
• the training of judges, umpires and other administrators;
• the development of the sport around the world; and
• representing the sailors in all matters concerning the sport.

The MNAs are the national governing bodies for sailing around the world and the contact details for each authority can be found on the National Federations page.

Around 120 Class Associations are members of World Sailing which means they are entitled to hold a World Championship – more information about the different types of boat and board is available on the World Sailing Classes page.