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(C) Queensland Government

The Australian Builders Plate (ABP) is a national initiative to make boating safer by providing vital information about the capacity, capability and limitations of ships.

The ABP requires ship builders, importers or competent persons to clearly display information about a ship’s operational capabilities in a standard format.

Penalties apply for selling a vessel without an Australian Builders Plate that is required to have one fitted.

(C) Boating Industry Association of Victoria.

The Boating Industry Association of Victoria has a pivotal role to play in ensuring career and employment pathways are established within schools, TAFE, Learn Locals and Higher Education Career Centres. This Careers Guide provides an outline of education programs critical in mapping out course and career planning for young adults along with guidelines on how to achieve career outcomes. This guide is mapped to the Victorian Careers Curriculum Framework, the National Curriculum for Work Studies and Continuing Professional Development Competencies. We recommend the use of this guide to broaden the understanding of opportunities within the Boating and Marine Industry and provide young adults with the knowledge to make informed choices for their future career.

The BIA of Victoria have announced that the Annual General Meeting was successfully conducted Tuesday 26 April via zoom. The following is their Annual Report.  Information about the proceedings and outcome from that meeting can be found in News.

April 2022 – Transport for NSW has launched a new judgment-based advertising campaign called ‘Are You Boat Ready? Plan, Prepare, Predict’.

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The 2021 – 2024 Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) of World Sailing, the Prescriptions of Australian Sailing.

The Racing Rules of Sailing are effective from and 1 January 2021

In an industry recently in the USA, Jerry Mona of Left Brain Marketing, Inc. shared key findings from a comprehensive study of recent boat buyers by the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF), Marine Retailers Association of the Americas (MRAA) and NMMA.

Victoria has approximately 2,500 kilometres of coastline and there are more than 120 bays, inlets and estuaries along its length.The state also has more than 85,000km of rivers and 13,000 natural wetlands. There are over 400 public boat ramps across the state that can provide access to these waterways. This has resulted in a large variety of navigable waterways in which boating requirements may differ substantially.

SAILING 2032 is the platform from which Australian Sailing and our key partners will make exciting changes to what we do, when we do it, how we do it, where we do it, and who we do it with.

It is perhaps most difficult to quantify the positive amenity values or externalities that arise by the continuing success of The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (“the Show”). In bringing the world’s boat-related industry to Fort Lauderdale, the community both enhances and reinforces its historic identity as the boating capital of the world. The Show also serves to introduce the region’s diverse attractions to the world.

The Victorian Government has established the Better Boating Fund. The amount going into the Better Boating Fund will be the equivalent of all revenue generated from marine licences and vessel registration.