BSA's mission is to promote and encourage sailing in all its aspects in The Bahamas. The Association is a non-profit member-based organisation that currently accomplishes its mission through volunteers and member organisations and individuals. Its objects and aims are basically the same as for the ISAF below but on the national level.
The Bahamas Sailing Association is a "member national authority" of the International Sailing Federation or ISAF. It is also a member of the Bahamas Olympic Association (BOA) and of the Pan American Sailing Federation (PASF).
The Bahamas Sailing Association was established in 1952. It is a non-profit organisation.
Individuals and institutional members such as yacht clubs, sailing clubs and boat class associations constitute the Bahamas Sailing Association.
Who's who at BSA? Please refer to the contact page.
The International Sailing Federation or ISAF
The objects and aims for which the International Sailing Federation, as the controlling authority of the sport of sailing in all its forms throughout the world, is established are:
(a) to act as and carry out the functions and duties of such authority;
(b) to promote the sport of sailing in all its branches regardless of race, religion, gender or political affiliation;
(c) to establish, supervise, interpret and amend the rules regulating sailboat racing and to adjudicate disputes and take any appropriate disciplinary action (including the imposition of appropriate penalties);
(d) to act as the supervising organization for the sport of sailing, to grant and withdraw international or recognized status to or from classes of boats and to prescribe the relevant rules and measurement procedures;
(e) to act as the organizing authority of the Olympic Sailing Regatta;
(f) to control, organize, conduct, license or sanction other championships, sailing events or activities;
(g) to examine, study, investigate, consider and report on all matters affecting the sport of sailing and any persons interested therein or associated therewith and to collect, analyze and distribute information, statistics, opinions and reports thereon;
(h) to represent and protect the interests of any member of the Federation;
(i) to convene, arrange, organize and hold regattas, races and competitions of all sorts, to create and stimulate interest in and publicize the sport of sailing, to convene, arrange, organize and hold exhibitions, shows, displays, meetings, seminars, conferences and discussions, and to provide prizes, bursaries, grants and awards for competitors and others;
(j) to provide administrative services of any sort whatsoever for any association, union, society, club, committee, body or person interested in or associated with sailing in any of its forms.
