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- 24 Feb 2009, 08:36
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
Hi Dick Well, there is E.1.1: E1.1 Terminology [...] For ‘race’ used as a noun outside this appendix and outside Appendix A read ‘heat’. In this appendix, a race consists of one or more heats and is completed when the last heat in the race is finished. An ‘event’ consists of one or more ...
- 23 Feb 2009, 08:15
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
In getting back to the light, it may be worth using the official definitions of 'heat', 'race', and 'event', rather than the way we might casually talk. It makes a difference when seeing what the rules currently say about being able to change or move the battery when there is more than one heat per ...
- 21 Feb 2009, 09:13
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Rule Changes for the Next AGM
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9720
I am also not aware of any formal request from any NCA asking for an interpretation of this question. Nothing on this issue was passed on to me when I took on the VC Technical position, not sure where the assertion that this issue has been hanging around the Technical Committee since 2004. Hi Roy I...
- 20 Feb 2009, 23:48
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
Get the quotes right Lester Get your logic right Val. (Now, just how does this exchange raise the level of debate or show respect for different opinion?) I said it was an International ISAF class And I think you got that wrong. Using your word order, the IOM is an International ISAF-RSD class. It i...
- 20 Feb 2009, 18:42
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Rule Changes for the Next AGM
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9720
the concept of a batten pocket to locate a batten that can be interchanged or adjusted has never (to the best of my knowledge) been used on an IOM Hi Tony True, I've never seen a removeable batten on an IOM sail. But I have seen a number of sails which have batten pockets without any battens... I c...
- 20 Feb 2009, 08:54
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Rule Changes for the Next AGM
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9720
On full size sails the pocket can stick out behind the leech. [...] A batten pocket is not the leech of the sail so presumably can extend beyond Hi Tony I'm guessing that, when you say "full size", you mean "according to the class rules of full size class XYZ". I guess most full size classes have c...
- 18 Feb 2009, 13:21
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Rule Changes for the Next AGM
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9720
IOM battens
There is an issue which remains outstanding in the IOMICA Technical Sub-Committee, I believe, since circa 2004. It is a problem with battens, mainsail battens in particular, where a piece of reinforcement is wrapped around the batten at the leech to hold it firmly in place. At the simplest level, th...
- 18 Feb 2009, 12:15
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: More than one receiver
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12023
- 18 Feb 2009, 11:35
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
The class is an International ISAF class Hi Val No, the class is not an ISAF International class. It is an ISAF-RSD class (quite a different animal, I assure you). ISAF methods and standards of which you are clearly ignorant You are in a glass house and it is unseemly of you to throw such stones. H...
- 18 Feb 2009, 10:08
- Forum: Class Associations and Class Management
- Topic: ISAF Classes Web site features the IOM
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4607
ISAF Classes Web site features the IOM
ISAF have recently updated their Web site. Interestingly, it now lists Radio Sailing as a kind of ISAF (!) class alongside other kinds such as keelboat, centreboard, multihull and windsurfing. http://www.sailing.org/boatclasses.php The IOM page is at http://www.sailing.org/21283.php This seems to be...
- 17 Feb 2009, 08:54
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: More than one receiver
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12023
- 17 Feb 2009, 08:40
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
It may be worth remembering how we got here. A while back, ISAF removed the bilge water and non-moveable ballast business from the RRS, saying that these were class issues. In response, IOMICA added C.5.3 to the class rules, as well as some other rules dealing with weights and water. The RRS only ap...
- 15 Feb 2009, 19:25
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
- 12 Feb 2009, 08:14
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Jib Attachment
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14652
It should have been put to a vote of the class From the actual description of events, the class asociation did not exist at the time the 2003 rules were finalised. The interpretation arose as a result of a request for such an interpretation from the AMYA. There was no submission of a desired rule c...
- 11 Feb 2009, 10:04
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
- 10 Feb 2009, 21:27
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Jib Attachment
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14652
Hi IOM sailors. It may be worth providing a history which is accurate in regard to the dates, processes, and organisations involved. In 2002, RSD issued the 2002 CRs. In there we could read: C.7.6 STANDING RIGGING (a) Use The headsail boom swivel shall be attached to the deck approximately on the hu...
- 10 Feb 2009, 08:13
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
- Replies: 118
- Views: 99444
- 09 Feb 2009, 08:22
- Forum: Events and Event Management
- Topic: World Champs 2009
- Replies: 102
- Views: 84102
- 03 Feb 2009, 19:21
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Reversed kicking strap
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11463
- 01 Feb 2009, 10:54
- Forum: Events and Event Management
- Topic: Barbados Worlds 2009 International One Metre Notice Of Race
- Replies: 119
- Views: 107018
Hi Peter Went looking for the Notice of Race on the Web site. http://www.sailbarbados.com/pdf/2009%20WC%20Notice%20Of%20Race.pdf Received "The page cannot be found". "The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. " Am I doing something wro...
- 24 Jan 2009, 10:35
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: Sail Measurement Diagram and Measurement matrix
- Replies: 29
- Views: 31234
Hi Bruce My experience of such measurement devices is that they struggle when the sail has any significant amount of luff curve. They also struggle when the sail is bent to the mast (since the sail may be measured while bent in accordance with the class rules). In both cases, the measurer must 'slig...
- 19 Jan 2009, 19:25
- Forum: Events and Event Management
- Topic: Mid Event Measurement Checks
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19940
- 19 Jan 2009, 18:43
- Forum: Events and Event Management
- Topic: Mid Event Measurement Checks
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19940
I think Graham and Val are talking about somewhat different issues. Val notes that an international championship needs to have all the boats event measured before racing starts for a number of good reasons, and I don't think anyone disagrees much. Graham notes that a number of competitors seem to be...
- 14 Jan 2009, 12:10
- Forum: Events and Event Management
- Topic: International Entrance Fees
- Replies: 47
- Views: 40158
I appreciate and understand that Zoran, like all of us, wishes to see only the best for Radio Sailing umpiring. I completely disagree with his analysis of what the problems are, however, and profoundly disagree with his suggestion that umpire calls should be a one-turn penalty. (Zoran has heard this...
- 08 Jan 2009, 08:36
- Forum: Events and Event Management
- Topic: Mid Event Measurement Checks
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19940
Might be worth pointing out that this "precedence" derives from full size, where there is only one or maybe two races in a day. Also might be worth pointing out that being able to continue to sail after declaring an appeal applies only when an interpretation of the class or measurement rule is requi...
- 15 Dec 2008, 16:56
- Forum: Events and Event Management
- Topic: Feedback on the 2008 European Championship Regatta
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13921
We were having a discussion at the pond about the rules and umpiring. Though a couple of sailors said that the racing rules were not really appropriate for radio sailing, we came to some agreement that the rules would never be perfect. Instead, discussion turned to the idea that any set of rules is ...
- 09 Oct 2008, 08:26
- Forum: General IOM
- Topic: Servo Voltage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10441
Hi Don Not so fast! You need to see my cell dummy... I stopped using it 'cos I couldn't build one that worked (smile). It kept popping out of the holder since I never could get the length right, or the diameter, or the right kind of dimpling on one end to mate against the terminal. It kept either op...
- 08 Oct 2008, 20:25
- Forum: General IOM
- Topic: Servo Voltage
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10441
I was just surfing, looking for a 5 cell AA battery holder and there ain't no such thing. I was thinking that maybe I could use a 6 cell holder Hi Don For a while, I ran with 5 AA NiCds in a 6-cell holder. I made up a dummy 6th 'cell' from a length of dowel with domed furniture pins each end and a ...
- 28 Sep 2008, 20:35
- Forum: General IOM
- Topic: RRS 2009-2012 -- Changes to the game
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9786
RRS 2009-2012 -- Changes to the game
ISAF have released the new RRS on their Web site. I have some comments on the changes as they might affect radio sailing at
http://www.onemetre.net/Race/RRS2009/2009changes.htm
http://www.onemetre.net/Race/RRS2009/2009changes.htm
- 27 Sep 2008, 17:40
- Forum: Class Rules
- Topic: More than one receiver
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12023
I think the conversation might continue to a satisfactory conclusion: [...]Me: Ok, the receiver does work without the black box attached, but that doesn’t discount it from being a receiver. I’m lead to believe that it is, in fact, a second receiver that increases the performance of the first. I...