COMMITTEES & GROUPS

The Sail Canada Board of Directors may constitute Program and Adhoc Committees as it deems necessary in carrying out the affairs of the Association and define their terms of reference in a Policy on Organizational Structure.

STANDING COMMITTEES

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL

The Provincial Council is a standing advisory committee of the Board of Directors. The Provincial Council will consist of presidents of each provincial/territorial sailing association or their nominees, and will be responsible for alerting and advising the Board on national issues or concerns that could affect the long-term success of Sail Canada/Voile Canada as the national authority for sport of sailing in all its forms in Canada, including yachting.

MEMBERS

BC Sailing – Jennifer Ross
Sail Alberta – Stacey Gibb
Saskatchewan Sailing Clubs Association – Connor Boyle
Sail Manitoba – Ryan Van Berkel
Ontario Sailing – Jeff Dejean
Fédération de voile du Québec – Yves Leger
Sail NB – Kim Drisdelle
Sail Nova Scotia – Eric Hill
Sail PEI – Kerry Marsh
Sail NL – Tana Allen

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

The Nominating Committee is a standing committee of the Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee will consist of up to eight persons including the Past President and representatives of the standing and program committees, and will be responsible for overseeing the nominating process described in By-law 4;

MEMBERS

Todd Irving
Janet MacMillan
Rich Ballantyne

AUDIT COMMITTEE

Barbara Pike (Chair)
Darwin Castaneda Laverde
Joseph Malon
Valerie Lavigne
Tammy Barre

BOARD COMMITTEES

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Dr. John O’Dwyer, CPA, CA (Chair)
Mario Côté
Rob Hemming
Zac Baum
Larry Waters
Donna Scott
Torstein Braaten

GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE

Zac Baum (Chair)
Kate MacLennan
Valerie Lavigne
Don Adams

FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

Bob Greenhalgh (Chair)
Todd Irving
Tam Matthews
Janet MacMillan
John O’Dwyer

HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE

Hugh McGugan
Kate MacLennan
Barbara Pike

OPERATIONS COMMITTEES

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Andrew Robertson
Scott Collinson
Trevor Maguire
Peter Wickwire
Damien Etchaubard
Todd Irving

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Wendy Loat (Chair)
John Gourlay
Daniel Conrod
Steve McBride
Rob McLean
Julian Howarth
Jenny Davey

TCAC Meeting Minutes

TCAC SUB-COMMITTEES

RACE MANAGEMENT SUB-COMMITTEE

Rob Woodbury (Chair)
Daniel Conrod
Graham Dougall
Tof Nicoll-Griffith
Jennifer Ross
David Sprague
Anne-Marie Palfreeman

RMSC Meeting Minutes

JUDGES SUB-COMMITTEE

We are pleased to welcome two new members to the Judges Sub-Committee. They are Tom Sitar and Dale King. Tom is a National Judge who lives in Vancouver and is a Royal Vancouver Yacht Club member. He started racing as a teenager on dinghies and Sharks in Ontario and continued racing One Design keelboats once in Vancouver. He has actively campaigned his J/109 on the West Coast for the past six years. Dale King is a Regional Judge from the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, Ontario. She races Sharks, Ideal 18’s and 8 Metres, and cruises on a Hunter 30. Other members of the JSC are Joe Jospe as chair and Katie Coleman Nicoll, Mike Turner, Eric Turner, Michael Anderson, and Luke Porter.