IOMICA Forum

Hi all,

We now have ca 5 days left for NCAs to submit their owner lists.

So far we've only got lists from GBR and ARG, all others have zero voting strength!

If you want your votes to count at the AGM, please make sure that your NCA submits an owner list within the next 5 days!

Hi All, Same procedure as last year: NCA's submit a list of registered and certificated owners to IOMICA (secretary@iomclass.org) before September 20th 2007. The deadline is now about one moth away, so this is an early reminder! If you are an NCA representative, start getting your lists together ! I...

Hi Olivier, you may be right! But from a skippers point of view I would argue that a requirement to insert a "2" or "3" in front of my usual sail number is as much work or more than simply re-doing all the numbers to something else like "35". Why ? Because I've left space in front of my normal numbe...

There is now a new page about the meeting on our website. http://www.iomclass.org/2007-iomica-agm/ It will be updated as nominations and resolutions are received. A weekend day would mean Sunday 14th (Saturday 13th is opening, Saturday 20th is price-giving), or possibly Friday 19th. I will check wha...

there is nothing in the class rule that talks about an added 2 or 3 in front of the number, just a "1". So an argument could also be made that the first person gets allocated "79" the second "179" and the third should be allocated a number completely separate from these numbers. for example "35" the...

The 2007 IOMICA Annual General Meeting has just been announced on our website. It will take place during the Worlds in Marseille. The meeting will elect a new Executive Committee for 2007-2009, and vote on any proposals put forward. Proposals need to be emailed to the IOMICA secretary by 9. August 2...

now YCPR has updated their website with a stage 2 competitor list
http://www.ycpr.net/datas/docs/11845762 ... 015-07.pdf

So, anyone know when YCPR will have the stage 2 allocations ready?

Anders

Thanks Olivier, fast work. 63 entries in stage 1 leaves 13 for stage 2 and later (76 boats in total 76-63=13). so any country in the top 13 on the stage-2 list should be OK. From a FIN perspective this will get real close! We are on place 16. on the stage-2 list, but there are at least three countri...

The allocation of places is explained in this document: http://www.ycpr.net/datas/docs/11716473_iom%20wc%20allocations%20fra%20gbr%20.pdf My understanding is that all entries should be sent in before the initial closing date, so it is no longer possible to send in more entries. As there was no POR c...

The rig measurement form has been updated with a few corrections. A new form is now available from our website:

http://www.iomclass.org/

Hi all, Just very informally it would be nice to know approximately how many extra places there are for Marseille in stage two allocations. I know FIN sent in three entries, so we are using our two spots and hoping for one more. Sören and Torvald seemed to indicate that they are the only ones from ...

I have some mouldings for sale, please see
http://www.anderswallin.net/2007/06/one ... -for-sale/


Anders

see
http://www.iomclass.org/2007/05/25/new- ... ent-forms/

I have just uploaded the 2007 IOM Class Rules to our website along with new measurement forms and two documents with details on how the decisions for the new rules were made.

Read all about it at www.iomclass.org

Hi All, The Finnish radio sailors are going to the Helsinki Model Expo (www.model-expo.com) next weekend. I'm putting together a Power Point presentation with text, pictures, drawings and videos that will be shown on a large (32" ?) display at our stand. If anyone has good IOM racing movies (IOM Wor...

Hi all, if anyone has a well kept second hand Cockatoo (or Cockatoo-2) for sale, preferably in Europe, let me know !
Rigs and radio not required.

thanks,

Anders Wallin (anders.wallin "at" helsinki.fi)

Hi All, I still don't see how starting from a seeding race with the configuratio 15-15-15-15-16 the races will proceed. the logical and fair division for race 2 would be identical: 15-15-15-15-16, but there is no provision in the current HMS for moving up/down a variable amount of boats - so I don't...

I guess it's a question of where to put the complexity.

The current system distributes it among race 1 and 2 for wich special rules apply.

With a larger number of seeding races only race 1 is special and race 2 is already 'normal'.

Anders

... scheduling for race 1 is not as simple as it seems Hi Anders The Race 1 schedule is independent of the number of boats promoted and demoted, so that isn't an issue. All that is required is that (almost) the same number of boats sail in each heat of Race 1... So the current HMS suggests the foll...

Hi All, it looks like we're going to have a new kind of HMS event next year at the worlds with 6 boats moving up and down from each heat, and with 5 heats and max 20 boats/heat that means a maximum of 76 competitors. I met Eero Laurila, the finnish NCA representative, during the weekend, and he has ...

Hi, one argument in favor of the way it is now is that if a sailor starts out in the E-heat and then sails very well, being promoted E->D->C->B->A. so he's sailed 4 very good races allways placing in the top 4 or 6 in each heat. Then in the A heat his battery dies or he gets some other gear failure....

you can buy the battery from any battery supplier. I usually get mine from companies that make and service cell-phone, laptop, etc. batteries. They will spot-weld the cells together which looks much nicer than soldering and also exposes the cells to less heat. I use Deans micro 2R connectors in the ...

I've been meaning to take some measurements and pictures of my sailbox and publish them for a long time now...
maybe now would be a good time as someone actually asks for something like this...

does freeship have hydrostatic calculation built-in ? if not, is there a free program that could do hydrostatics ? some years ago I did hydrostatic calculations for a number of IOM hulls, they are at: http://www.anderswallin.net/2005/06/iom-hull-hydrostatics/ but they were done with commercial softw...

For next year I think the Exec should work on a robust & easily manageable on line voting system. This was where we stumbled a little I think. I know we discussed this previously, but let's re-iterate here, maybe some readers have suggestions or good ideas. Were you thinking of an on-line system fo...

Hi Peter, There were no other applicants wanting to host a Worlds event in 2007, so Marseille it is. A preliminary Notice of Race is being worked on by the Events sub-committee together with the organizers from YCPR. The latest dates I know of are 13. to 20. October 2007, but these are preliminary a...

two comments, both somewhat off-topic :roll: 1. The Naviga F5-E class is already using a word for word copied version of the ca 1995? IOM class rules. So if Roy feels he can help bring in big cash for IOMICA this would be the place to start I think. 2. again about bringing in the cash: instead of ar...

Hi All, It could be useful to have a discussion here about the 2006 AGM just held electronically (minutes now on the website). As a whole, did it work ? What could be done better next year ? In some countries, all of the votes for that country were decided by the very few who bothered to vote (notab...

Hi All,

The minutes from the meeting are now ready and available from our website.
the direct link is:
http://www.iomclass.org/exec/2006agm/WC ... inutes.pdf