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by Lester
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 ...
by Lester
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 ...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
18 Feb 2009, 12:15
Forum: Class Rules
Topic: More than one receiver
Replies: 11
Views: 12023

Bruce Andersen wrote:Sort of old news eh?
Hi Bruce

Ya got me! I must have blinked and missed it... (smile)
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
17 Feb 2009, 08:54
Forum: Class Rules
Topic: More than one receiver
Replies: 11
Views: 12023

Is the Technical Sub-committee going to suggest a rule change to resolve this issue?
by Lester
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...
by Lester
15 Feb 2009, 19:25
Forum: Class Rules
Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
Replies: 118
Views: 99444

RoyL wrote:I do not think the rules freely allow you to add weight to an IOM whenever you choose
Which rule would that be?
by Lester
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...
by Lester
11 Feb 2009, 10:04
Forum: Class Rules
Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
Replies: 118
Views: 99444

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 races.
by Lester
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...
by Lester
10 Feb 2009, 08:13
Forum: Class Rules
Topic: Battery Weight & Placement
Replies: 118
Views: 99444

C.5.3 REMOTE CONTROL EQUIPMENT
USE
((d) Remote control and/or related equipment if temporarily removed and or replaced:
(1) shall be refitted in the same position.
(2) shall be replaced by equipment of similar weight.
by Lester
09 Feb 2009, 08:22
Forum: Events and Event Management
Topic: World Champs 2009
Replies: 102
Views: 84102

It would be helpful to have this list of stage 1 allocations available as a download from the IOMICA Events Web page. Not everyone knows where to find it on the forum, as I have found out at the pond-side recently. Thanks!
by Lester
03 Feb 2009, 19:21
Forum: Class Rules
Topic: Reversed kicking strap
Replies: 10
Views: 11463

Herb 3 is referring to the 1995 class rules.
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
19 Jan 2009, 19:25
Forum: Events and Event Management
Topic: Mid Event Measurement Checks
Replies: 23
Views: 19940

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by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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 ...
by Lester
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...
by Lester
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 ...
by Lester
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
by Lester
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...