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The Nordic sailors register by their respective countries representatives. FIN: Riiku Lindström SWE: Claus Lindström DEN: Lasse Rand NOR: Jørn Hoelsæther For the “International” entrants: Use this https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1L3okKr9GGgmnKxD3eFqr0H23j2MPDYSgc-yxU7x1UxI/viewform Deadline for entr...

The Nordic countries organizes a Nordic Championship in IOM every year, for the IOM class 2004 was the first year. In 2014 Norway is hosting the championship. Norsk Modellseilforening will host the event and it will also serve as NMS 110 year anniversary. Date: 30 - 31 of august 2014 Place: Oslo Eve...

The NOR for the 2012 Nordic IOM Championship is out.

Info and links can be found at IOM-nordic.org

The event will take place in the city of Sandefjord, Norway

It is very seldom that big organisations and specially organisations with members across the borders has a voting process that gives votes on a one to one basis. how we are oganized is common for many organisations. It is good reasons for why some NCA has higher participation than others. The bigger...

I have been following this discussion with great interest. As many previous discussions this has been a playground for the native english speaking, with some few exceptions. Those exceptions is trying to clear up the mess the english speaking are making, discussing nitty gritty details in som paragr...

Here is how the situation looks like in Norway. We have approximately 130 boats, wheras 29 is certificated. We have races approximately every second week in 5 places along the coastline. Norsk Modellseilforening which dates bact to 1904 is currently DM and have been DM since the 1920 when the intern...

Today is is all RC sailing in Norway ( IOM) organized in ordinary sailing clubs under the Norwegian Sailing Federation apart from Norsk Modellseilforening, which has been the Norwegian representative since early 1920 when the International Model Yachting Union was started. We have a descition in NMS...

As many times before great effort is put into discussing themes of no significance. Bear in mind that the ground rule, if it isn't specificcally allowed it is prohibited. Batteries, corrector weights or other "loose"equipment are not ment to be shifted around, and therefore you are not allowed to ch...

With previous discussions in mind I would not use CF battens. I have a feeling it would open yet another can of worms. There is no reasons to use CF battens in an IOM sail other than it looks nice and seems to be "high tech" The only place one can justify using CF is in the keel and here it is legal...

I kind of agree with Roy in this matter, 25, 50 75 and so forth are the celebration dates, I have a feeling that 21 is connectet to US. We in Norway don't have any celebration at 21. BUT I am in favor of a common day all over the world to put up a celebration race when the class is 25. We can put up...

Alfonso
No I can not see that topic.

What happened with this topic????

I sugest that the Exec promotes a date for a world wide race day, unless this will die quietly.

If we can agree upon a date we could promote that event. In Norway we have a race 21 of june, the same time as the racing in the WC starts, I know that in Spain they are going to have their regional Catalonian championship. Wouldnt it be great if we could have a race all over the world at the same t...

One can question what is fair. If one can not se your boat and obstruct another, not willingly, but by accident, shall the boat that was obstructed suffer due to the other skipper did not see his boat?? Approaching a mark far away, a lot of boats are about to round. One are bound to loose sight of y...

The Nordic IOM Championship will be held May 2 and 3 in Oslo Norway.
In aditional to the Nordic IOM sailors we hope for other sailors too.

A maximum limit of contestants is set to 38.

The preliminar division is set to 8 from each Nordic country and 6 from others

The Nordic IOM Championship 2007 was arranged by SRSS 29 to 30 of september. 37 participants, 4 from FIN. 4 from DEN, 9 from NOR and the rest from SWE. The biggest race on the mainland in northern Europe? Well it seems that the IOM class in the Nordic countries is continuing to grow. Reports and res...

I support Val by whole my hart!!!!!! I hope this is the end of yet another discussion over something which don't have anything with sailing to do. Us non english speaking countries do have problems when the fluently english speaking wordtwister starts fireing up their discussion over minor details, ...

The 2007 Scandinavian IOM Cup Race 1where hosted by Norsk Modellseilforening in Oslo Norway. 27 skippers competed in two heats. 14 races was held and all 3 countries was represented on the podium. The winner was Torvald Klem (NOR), second Søren Andresen (DEN) and third Anders Wallin (FIN). There wa...

Hi all. I will draw your attention to this years SCANDINAVIAN IOM CUP which consists of 3 races: Race 1, 18-19th may in Oslo, Norway Race 2, 2-3rd sept in Ã…bo, Finnland Race 3 29-30th sept, in Sweden There are still available spaces 18-19th of may in Oslo See iom-nordic.org for further info.

There are some issues which was made clear to me during a discussion in Norway, and which also Steve Landeau pointed out. The lower heat guy working his way through the heats finishes in fact every heat he is promoted from so the idea to give him scores for the best placing is fair and logic, but as...

Well its still the same race he don't finish. Yes I admit that he has had 4 good races, but he must have had some poor races before that starting in the E heat. I mean it doesn't matter how many good races he/she have had before a DNF or likewise it is still a DNF. The bonus for the good sailing is ...

Ralph
I tried to mail you, but it just bounched back

maybe you could try mine?

ole-peder at modellseiling dot org

We have been sailing after the HMS system for a long time,I personally like the system since it gives everybody starting in a race a possibility to win. After going in the system i detail there are som minor things that I feel isnt so logical, that is whenone have a DNF, OSC and so on. Since all hea...

The following is copied from the Sphinchter homepage

"The name Sphincter comes from the eye contraction muscle,
called spincter pupillae. Since I am an optician working with
eyes this felt this was a suitable name."

I fully support Steve's point of view

Hi
I have been using Prolines to design mine IOM's. I have downloded a copy of Freeship and it seems to be a great program.
I will test it, but what I have seen so far I think I will use this in the future.

There are no free AutoCad on the net, but there are "free" versions around for download using such programs as BearSheare.
Just bear in mind that this is no leagal versions

Hi
There are some newer versions around these days, 14 must be from the previous millenium.

If you can't open them they are made on later versions than what you have.

Now we are talking. Regarding the legal stuff I will not go into that. I think that Lester has a much better overview of that then me. I have read the draft of the phigit, yes it simpifies some matters, but the clear references ti yhe IOM rules removes a lot of the complexity from the phigit rules. ...

Of course the rules are simpler if the the idea is to use an IOM rig, only one line in the rules are necessary: Rigs to be IOM rigs. And then leave the IOM class to define the rules. I haven't been able to find any class rules. I think it was in the MM article I saw the depth gauge as in Marblehead,...