To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit:
Pritchett, Mr Paul Ferrier (5963) For services to yachting and the community
Mr Paul Pritchett has played a key role in encouraging the youth of Canterbury into sailing.
He has chaired Canterbury Yachting Association committees and been Chairman of the Youth Committee of the New Zealand Yachting Federation. He has been an International Council member representing the New Zealand Flying Fifteen Association. He has been involved with Lyttelton Harbour Issues Group and the Lyttelton Harbour’s Waste Water Working Party. He was volunteer coordinator of safe water monitoring for Lyttelton Harbour and sampler in Church Bay between 1998 and 2010. Within the wider community Mr Pritchett has been involved with Probus and Lions Clubs, organised beach clean ups, tree plantings, and cliff track working parties.
Mr Pritchett introduced the Optimist sailing dinghy to New Zealand in 1975. He instigated the New Zealand Optimist Dinghy Association and spent many hours travelling the country to promote the dinghy as the ideal child’s learner sailing boat, which has since been widely adopted around New Zealand. He founded the Water Activities Centre in 1986, through which Christchurch school pupils were able to learn safe sailing and associated water activities. He co-founded sailing for the disabled in Canterbury in 1989. He is a Life Member of the Charteris Bay Yacht Club and has been Commodore twice.
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