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2010 IOM Euroepan Championship. Allocation of places.

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Allocation of places for the IOM 2010 European Championship in France

Taken from IOM Class Championship Regulations

8. ENTRIES

8.1 The maximum number of boats shall be 76.

8.2 The initial closing date shall be June 24th, 2010.

8.3 The allocation of places shall take place within 14 days of the initial closing date.

8.4 Member NCAs should only send entry fees for those competitors gaining places allocated in Stage One.

8.5 Member NCAs shall send entry forms for their competitors entering in Stages Two, Three & Four only if they are prepared to guarantee payment of the entry fee for those competitors getting a place. Once a place is allocated payment is required whether that competitor races or not.

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2010 European Championship. Preliminary Informations

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

IOM European Championship Pierrelatte 2010 . (France)

Sept 24th/October 2nd

Preliminary Informations

1. Venue

The 2010 International One Metre Class European Championship will be held in Pierrelatte(26) Base Nautique de Pierrelatte. Coordinates GPS: Lat: 44° 21′ 48.19 ” N Long: 4° 40′ 53.60 ” E

2. Programme

  • 24th June Initial closing date for entries
  • 08th July Allocation of places
  • 01st September Final date for submission of IOM Class Certificates
  • 24th – 25th September Registration, Practice, Equipment Inspection
  • 26th September Equipment Inspection : 8h30-11h – 12h first warning signal
  • 27th – 28th September Racing days (09:00 first warning signal)
  • 29th September Reserve day (The day may be used for racing if 10 completed races
  • have not been achieved at the end of September 28st)
  • 30th September– 2nd
  • October
  • Racing days (09:00 first warning signal, 16:00 last warning signal for
  • the last race on October 2nd
  • 2nd October Award ceremony

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New page 2010 IOM Events

Friday, January 29th, 2010

 We have started this new page to group together events which may interest skippers from other countries. There is not enough answers yet, so we wish that each NCA could send their informations to “vcevents” at “iomclass.org” using following spreadsheet

Olivier Cohen

Vice-Chairman Events

New NCAs

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

The IOM ICA is pleased to announce that, having completed the application process :

  • “Belgian Model Sailing Association” (BMSA) has joined the World Council as the NCA for Belgiun (BEL). The Representative on the World Council is Serge Bertran.
  • “Clase de Vela Radiocontrolada de Chile” (CVRC) has joined the World Council as the NCA for Chile (CHI). The Representative on the World Council is Rolf Koster .

Barry Fox
IOMICA Secretary

The results of the Election for Executive positions.

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Following the 2009 AGM the results of the election for Executive positions was announced with Bruce Andersen named as Chairman and Robert Grubisa as VC Technical.

The balance of the positions were either uncontested or there were no nominations. The uncontested nominations were David Turton (Treasurer), Olivier Cohen (VC Events), Pedro Egea (VC Infocomms) and Barry Fox (Secretary). There was no candidate for VC Measurement.

Subsequently, there was some question concerning the allocation of votes that was applied for countries that held multiple electoral votes. There was also discussion about what rules actually governed how those votes should be applied. (more…)

Form for returning 2009 AGM votes

Monday, June 15th, 2009

NCAs can return Owner Ballot results for the 2009 AGM electronically using this form:
2009IOMICA_AGM_vote_return_form.doc

Please email to “anders.wallin” at “helsinki.fi” before Friday 19th of June 2009.

As of Friday 19th of June 2009 @ 0800 UTC the following votes have been received electronically:
ARG
AUS
BRA
CRO
DEN
ESP
FRA
GBR
IRL
NZL
POR
USA
B. Andersen

NCA’s not on this list should send in their votes ASAP and/or ensure that their votes are presented in person at the AGM.

ISAF Reply to Class Rule changes proposed at 2008 AGM

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

The class rule changes proposed at the 2008 AGM were sent to ISAF for comments. IOMICA has now received a reply from ISAF:

ISAF_response_to_IOM2008RuleChanges_2009May22.pdf