IOMICA Forum

Barry: I was wondering--do we have from each NCA the actual total of raw votes cast? I couldn't find it (might have not looked in the right place). But I think knowing the number of actual member votes and where they came from could be very helpful.

Not sure why the attitude here. These are well intentioned questions on an important issue. They really do deserve an answer.

To follow up on how reducing the number of entrants can lower costs consider the following--if you have less entries, you have fewer fleets which means more racing in a shorter time. A shorter event is a less expensive event. And Alfonso.. its so infrequent that we ever hear anything from you or the...

Now I'm really unclear what is going on here. Even though there has been no public call for possible hosts for the next IOMICA Worlds or Euro's, now we hear that two countries are interested in the Euro's and one is interested in the Worlds but the head of IOMICA Events "won't tell".....And no respo...

This has been a little hard to follow and I'm not sure what is exactly the point, but from my years on the IOMICA Executive, I can assure anyone that cares that the entry fees collected for an IOM World Championship don't even come close to covering the costs of the event. A good rule of thumb is th...

First, I would like to say "thank you" to the staff and organizers of the European Championship in France. Although I didn't attend I have heard nothing but positive feedback from the event. I know how hard these big races are to pull off and how much time and effort is required. Thanks again all. N...

"July 18, 2009 6:15 pm. Seems like that would be advance notice." Nope. A non-official post from over a year ago and nothing on the forum since? The procedure in the past was to officially call for nominations for officers in the initial AGM notice. But none of this matters since there is no provisi...

A few simple points---the current IOMICA Executive has made a major point that it believes in strictly following the class rules as written. Yet, clearly what is being done regarding off year elections does not follow the class rules. Second, IOMICA has a website and forum that used to be a major so...

Not sure how this works. If the rules say that officers are elected every two years, how can you can have an election now? Regardless, it might have been nice if someone had posted that there would be an election this year and called for nominations. Maybe if that fact had been known others might ha...

Just wanted to compliment everyone on a nice job. Reasonable question, well reasoned response. Thanks for your efforts.

Having been there before, please don't go down the road of "Isn't specta really a thermoplastic" or "Isn't spectra really fiberglass". The IOM class rules were meant to promote inexpensive construction methods and basically limits hulls to be made from fiberglass and/or wood. (Thermoplastic was put ...

I have looked at the documents suggested and only found information on rule interpretations and how to submit them. I couldn't find anything regarding an "IOM ICA TSC official view" and how it is binding on the class. Could you please reference the applicable rules?

I am unclear--is the above response a formal interpretation of the IOMICA Technical Committee?

It seems that there are again some new documents posted on the IOMICA home page and not mentioned on the forum. I know that many of us go directly to the forum page and not the homepage to check for updates. It would be very helpful if any updates on the homepage are at least mentioned on the forum....

I think the idea of an IOM events page is great. A suggestion--a comprehensive general list of all events throughout the world might be a little long and not all that useful. Perhaps the list should be for major events for which out of country competitors are welcome. For example, here in the US, ou...

I have always taken the position that without strong support from at least one NCA for changes in the IOM class rules, it is not appropriate for the IOMICA Executive to act on its own accord except in the case of an emergency. What is surprising is that about a year ago, when I put forth that positi...

I believe the question asked was whether or not there is a plan to have the IOMICA AGM held at a regular time each year. From the nature of the reply ("you will informed as everybody else, at least 8 weeks before the AGM"), I take it that the answer is therefore "NO".

Sorry it took so long to respond, but if we are updating the forum a few thoughts--I think its time to end the various national sections on the board. They are basically not used at all anymore. In their place, perhaps IOMICA could offer to host the IOM class discussion boards for various NCAs and/o...

It seems that a revised set of Class Championship Regulations has now been published on the home page. I think it would be helpful if announcements like this were also mentioned on the forum since some of us check here first. Also, would it be possible to see a "red lined" version of the new regulat...

There seems to be some recent changes/updates in the look of the IOM Forum. Just curious to know what has happened?

Also problematic (and important) is trying to determine which documents to rely on. For example, many of the IOMICA election procedures are contained in a "draft" document that was never voted on and adopted by the membership. Other documents that have been cited in the past (like some of the "resol...

I assume Barry you are talking about me, so let me respond. First, to suggest that there haven't been problems with our recent votes is to have a very short memory. Just as an example, in our last election for officers of this organization, two different people were declared the winner. I get a sens...

Given some of the recent issues we have been confronted with regarding voting, I would think that "fixing" how we vote should be a very high priority. To begin with, I believe many of our current voting procedures come from a draft document that was never even finalized let alone voted on by our mem...

Brig: No, what Bruce wrote wasn't the answer I was looking for either. To be very clear about what I am asking--in order to hold a "World" or "Continental" championship, it must be sanctioned by ISAF. The IOM Worlds are specifically sanctioned in the agreement between RSD/ISAF and IOMICA. I couldn't...

I have to say that the explanation provided by Lester seems to be circular and I don't think he is speaking for the Executive. All I am trying to find out is if there is a document from RSD/ISAF authorizing multiple IOM Continental Championships? If there is could someone say where it is located onl...

Barry: Not sure why such a negative response. If you look at my post, I think I asked a series of reasonable questions, none of which were answered by the way. Certainly I am not trying to give the Exec a "beating". To recap--the first question I asked is where in our governing documents is IOMICA a...

Olivier: You might want to check out the relevant ISAF, RSD and IOMICA documents. To the best of my knowledge, RSD has only granted to IOMICA the right to hold World Championship races. I couldn't find the regulations whereby IOMICA is authorized by RSD or ISAF to hold one or more Continental Champi...

My understanding is that under the current agreement between RSD and IOMICA, IOMICA has the right to hold a single Continental Championship in years where there is no World Championship. It is also my understanding that in the recent class voting, this right was extended to include continents/region...

Now that the dust has cleared, I think it is appropriate that we re-visit the issue of class voting procedures. It would seem pretty clear that we need uniform rules that apply to all NCAs. An easy answer is to go to a one member/one vote direct election voting system. The present electoral college ...

I'm surprised that our Chairman is claiming that the first time he heard of a possible problem between various NCAs and their local big boat sailing authorities was a few days ago from Roy G. Australia has been talking about this problem for over a year. I am pretty sure this was even discussed at t...