Organisation
Representatives meet monthly for discussion, mutual support and
resolution of matters of mutual interest.
Monthly forum
meetings are attended by the Officers, Affiliated Club representatives (two for
each club of which only one may vote), representatives from QHM Plymouth(QHM),
Royal Yachting Association(RYA), Plymouth City Council(PCC), Cattewater Harbour
Commissioners(CHC), Mount Batten Centre (MBC), POPS, PIPS and Radio
Secretaries, and PPSA appointed representatives to outside bodies.
Clubs’
sailing programmes are coordinated so that they are accommodated without undue
interference with one another and to the requirements of the Queen's Harbour
Master Plymouth and the Civil Harbour Authorities.
Power rests
with the 19 affiliated clubs; the PPSA, as such, has no authority other than in
those matters which have received the clubs’ mandate at a forum meeting. These include
instructions relating to:-
·
Interference with safe navigation of
large vessels
·
Minimum equipment for offshore and
passage races
·
Notification of retirements
·
PPSA administration of the RYA
Portsmouth Yardstick Scheme
·
Exclusion zone when racing in the
Cattewater
·
Recreational Water Events Check off
List (WECOL)
·
PPSA Organised Events (POPS, PIPS
and
·
PPSA Annual Sailing Programme which
is included in QHM’s Water Events Diary (WED)