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IRSA World Championships 2016 Italy

 

Limone sul Garda, September 20, 2016. Everything is well prepared for the IRSA (International Radio Sailing Association) World Championship. 124 participants from 15 countries have registered for the regattas in Limone sul Garda Italy. From the 25th – 30th September competitors will be sailing to crown the 17th Marblehead class World Champion and from 1st – 3rd  of October racing will be for the title of 8th Ten Rater class World Champion.

After the events in 2012 in Ploermel, France and 2014 Gouda, Netherlands the Marblehead class has a fully booked entry of 76. In the Ten Rater class, where the last Worlds was sailed in Singapore in 1999, the organizer is pleased to welcome a full fleet of 48 skippers. After a 17 year hiatus in competing for a Ten Rater World Champion it is noteworthy that the class has never seen a larger entry for a Worlds.DSC 5275

The World Championship is being organized by IRSA and the Italian “Vela Club Campione”. The team led by Virginio Boglietti, Renato Bolis, Matteo Longhi and Gerd Mentges with help from the team of North West Garda Sailing has spent countless hours to prepare the venue at Limone sul Garda. The event will be opened on September 24th with an official ceremony and a large Opening Dinner in Limone.

The organizers has invited Pierre Gonnet from France to be the lead race officer for both events. Pierre has spent a lot of time evaluating how to best cope with the expected wind conditions. During the period that the championship will be held, the prevailing wind is a thermally generated southerly breeze. It starts at around 12.00 and blows constantly until 19.00. Wind speed ranges from 8 to 14 knots depending on the surrounding holland 2014_958weather systems. In the morning we can expect a light northerly thermal breeze from 8.00 until around 10.00 coming but a little less stable than the afternoon conditions. Wind speed in the morning ranges from 2 to 8 knots.

Harry Drenth with Sailing Today will be delivering the race management and the participants have already been divided into fleets. The websites worlds2016.marbleheadclass.org and worlds2016.tenrater.org provide competitors with info on their opponents in the first round of heats. As usual, the websites allow followers to stay on top of proceedings with constant updates of overall results and the fleetboard.

Some of the Top Sailors are:

Brad Gibson GBR 42

Marblehead class World Champion in 2012 and 2014. He will be defending his title and looking for the hat trick with his internationally and nationally undefeated Design “Grunge”. For the first time since its launch in 2012 other participants from England will be competing with the Grunge. Brad is also a top contender for the 10R title having sailed his newly designed Ten Rater “Trance” at the recent UK National Championships beating the reigning World Champion Graham Bantock.DSC 855091507

Graham Bantock GBR 95

Multiple World, European and reigning World Champion in the Ten Rater Class. Second in the World Championships in 2012 & 2014 in the Marblehead class he is looking to go one position better. Sailing this own designs “Quark” in Marblehead and “Diamond” in the Ten Rater Class he will be a strong contender.

Matteo Longhi – ITA 24

Winner of the National Championships in France, Italy and Switzerland. He will be looking to put maximum pressure on the English at the top. Most recently, he was able to achieve a close second at the UK National Championships behind Brad Gibson. One of the quiet sailor racing the newly design “Nioutram” by Marc Pomerade from France is seen as one of the non-UK contenders.

Ante Kovacevic CRO 9

Always one of the top ten when he takes part in a World Championships. 2014 he competed with a chartered boat prepared by Graham Bantock and finished a strong third with very limited preparation sailing Marbleheads. This year, Ante has been preparing since April with a Quark and expectations are high.

Peter Stollery GBR 39

World and European champions in the International One Metre Class Peter Stollery was always among the top ten in Marblehead championships. He will be racing a Stollery “Uproar” Design equipped with swing rigs in all sizes.

Martin Roberts GBR 55

Third at the World Championships 2012 in Ploermel he was unable to attend the Championships in Gouda 2014. Having become World Champion in 2006 racing the chartered pink boat from his wife Andrea he is again expected to racing the Dave Creed designed and built “Starkers” at the sharp end of the fleet.

Rèmi Bres FRA 48

For a number of years he has been racing the “Margo” designed by Paul Lucard, regularly finishing in the top 10 at the Worlds. For the first time in 20 years he comes to the starting line with a new design. As Matteo Longhi he is expected to participate with a Nioutram from the hands of Marc Pomerade. This new design placed 2nd, 3rd and 6th occupied UK National Championships in similar wind conditions as expected at Lake Garda. It will be interesting to see what the experienced sailor Rèmi Bres can extract from the design.

More information and regular updates can be found on the event website at:

http://worlds2016.marbleheadclass.org, http://worlds2016.tenrater.org

 

 

 

Racing Committee

IRSA Discretionary Penalties Guidelines for Radio Sailing

Racing Rule E7, Penalties allows the protest committee considerable discretion in giving penalties for breaches of many rules. The IRSA Discretionary Penalty Guidelines are intended to assist protest committees in giving penalties that are consistent within an event and from one event to another. This is also helpful for competitors who can have some certainty as to the penalties that they may receive.

The guidelines are based on a tried and tested document used for several years by World Sailing International Juries.Using this document a protest committee may choose between 3 levels of penalty, which may be increased or deceased according to circumstances. The document also proposes a method for determining a penalty for an infringement that has not yet been listed.

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IRSA NOR and SI Guide

IRSA has updated the IRSA Notice of Race and Sailing Instruction Guides. These documents propose standard wording for Notices of Race and Sailing Instructions for World and Continental Championships. The guide will also be useful when preparing race documents for other events. However, for such events some of the paragraphs may be unnecessary. Organising Authorities and Race Committees should therefore be careful when making their choices.

The documents are the result of several years of development. Many radio sailors and race officials have contributed to this work which began in 2013 when Roy Granich was Racing Chairman. The ideas and wordings have been tested and improved at several World and European Championships for both the Marblehead and One Metre classes.

NOR and SIs are available as a clean copy and a copy with comments.

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Racing Committee

Addendum Q update

A proposal in the Executive Committee to add in IRSA Addendum Q:

Q1.1 (g) After the first sentence of rule 20.1 add ‘The competitor controlling the boat shall hail ‘(her own sail number) room to tack.’

Had been approved. The final tally of votes was:

Yes (8 ): RO Oceania, EC Secretary, TC Chairman, EC Vice Chairman, OP Chairman, RO Europe, RC Chairman, EC Chairman
No (0): No votes
Abstain (0): No votes
Not present: RO Americas, EC Treasurer, Publicity Office

The amended version of Addendum Q, as approved by Executive Committee is now ready for publication. The new version differs only from the previous version:

  • by the inclusion of the agreed text
  • by updating the manner in which racing rules are referred to in line with the 2017 Rule Book – the convention is no longer to refer to rule 10 but to RRS 10.
  • by incorporating the current logos

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How Can I Volunteer To Help In The IRSA?

In other words, do you have a particular skill or experience that can help with the operation of the IRSA?

The IRSA is an association that serves over 30 National Organisations that maintain and promote Radio Controlled Sailing in their countries. Through these national bodies, the IRSA also serves the RC community as a whole, particularly being focused on the Internationally Recognised classes (10R, Marblehead, A-Class and IOM) and assisting emerging international classes. IOM sailors are served by their own international class association (ICA) called IOMICA, which is affiliated to the IRSA under a contract.

So you want to help?

There are many different aspects of the IRSA work that needs keen, skilled and enthusiastic people.

  1. Treasury and finance. 
  2. Interpretation and changes to the Racing Rules of Sailing. 
  3. Supporting the logistics of running World and Continental events
  4. Interpretation and changes to the class rules and measurement procedures.
  5. Development of international classes for those classes that are spread across the globe and can be indentified as being truely international.
  6. Organisation of the IRSA structure, in terms of ongoing analysis of the constitution and the various rules and regulations that direct the operations.
  7. And, there are other ongoing and sporadic needs.

Speaking of the Executive, the IRSA is divided into distinct working groups.

  1. The Executive Committee. This group are nominated and elected by the national bodies and IOMICA every two years. Each has their own job, so to speak, and often come together to discuss and sometimes vote on matters on the Executive Forum.
  2. The Committees. These assist in the development of various rules, interpretations and advice as matters turn up. They are invaluable to help the committee chairmen (who sit on the Executive) to bring quality and well thought through matters to the Executive for ratification or revision.

So where could a keen volunteer fit in?

If you wish to be part of the Executive, you will have to wait until the next General Assembly in April 2018. Apply to your national organisation to be nominated to the position you feel you can bring some solid expertise to.

If you wish to be part of a committee in the areas outlined in 1-6 above, and feel you have the experience and background to bring quality advice to these committees, then please don’t hesitate…. apply to your national body to be nominated. ​

The nomination does not mean you will automatically be involved. The nomination will be reviewed by the Committee Chairman and then the Executive and you will be required to supply information like sailing background and experience in the area you are applying for. There is no limit to the number of committee members, but you are required to be very proactive when the need arrives.

Please note.

IRSA does not take nominations directly from individuals, only the member national bodies. So all applications need to be forwarded through the national member of your country. Also, there is a limit of two volunteers per committee per country.

Looking forward to you joining a dedicated group wanting to put back into this beautiful sport and continue the considerable momentum already built up.  

Technical Committee

Release notes for Appendix E – Identification on Sails – for 2017

Notes to introduce the revised Appendix E rules concerning identification on sails and indicate the significant changes and their rationale.

Effective Date

1 January 2017.

Applicability

The sail identification rules of Appendix E apply to boats in classes of radio controlled boats administered by World Sailing or IRSA, including the IOM unless their class rules specify otherwise.

The sail identification on boats at world and continental championships shall comply with the 2017-2020 Appendix E. At other events sails may have sail identification that was applicable at the time of their initial certification.

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