Sail Canada
Sail Canada (formerly the Canadian Yachting Association) is Canada's governing body for the sport of sailing. Sail Canada is a "Member National Authority" of World Sailing . Organization of sailing in Canada is divided into four groups: yacht clubs, Provincial Sailing Associations, class associations, and Sail Canada itself. Yachting and sailing clubs may provide their members with moorage for their boats, boat launch facilities, organize regattas, put on social functions, and/or provide training to children and/or adults. There are ten Provincial Sailing Associations (PSA) that are responsible for organizing instructor courses, registering keelboats and providing PHRF rating certificates  and sail numbers, and training provincial team athletes. Class associations (such as the Laser class) are responsible for measuring and registering one-design boats, and organizing regional, national, and international regattas. Sail Canada is responsible for coaching national team athletes, including Olympic sailors, designing sailing and power boating courses, and registering and insuring instructors. Sailing instruction. Up until recently, there were seven sailing levels for dinghies: Since 2012, the above levels have been renamed CANSail 1 (essentially equivalent to White Sail I and II), CANSail 2 (White Sail III), CANSail 3 (Bronze IV), CANSail 4 (Bronze Sail V), CANSail 5  (Silver Sail VI) and CANSail 6 (Gold VII). CANSail levels 1 though 6 are offered to youth, while adult learners are limited to CANSail levels 1 through 4. Trapeze and spinnaker skills are separately taught through respectively CANSail Wires and CANSail Chutes courses. Sailing on keelboats and yachts is taught as part of the "Cruising Scheme", which has four levels: Although one further level is specified by the Cruising Scheme, it is not currently offered by any Sail Canada school. This is the Offshore Cruising level, which requires students to demonstrate the ability "to safely act as skipper and crew  in a sailing cruiser on an offshore passage navigated by celestial and electronic means without visual reference to terrestrial objects".