The RS100 Owners Thread

I just checked the ISAF regulations.

1) It seems no longer necessary to appoint an IJ, given ISAF permission. Quite right too IMO, bearing in mind events where an IJ has had nothing to do except get bored.
2)

25.2.5 The World Championship right granted in Regulation 25.2.1 may be open, or may be restricted on the basis of gender or age. All ISAF Classes may also award the following subsidiary World Championship titles: (a) one Women’s World Champion title (b) one Youth World Champion title (which may be on the basis of gender), where youth crews are so defined by the Class. (c) one further World Champion title on the basis of gender, age or discipline. 25.2.6 Those competing for a subsidiary World Championship shall race as a separate fleet. The number of participating entries in this fleet shall meet or exceed the number of entries shown in the table in regulation 10.4(b), and the fleet shall include entries from more than one continent.

10.4.b requires (for boats under 6m) 30 boats from 5 countries and 2 continents (these are relaxed for bigger boats).
10.4.b also includes

If a Class has failed to meet this requirement for two of their last three World Championships, it may only call its next such event a World Championships and award World Champion titles if the participation levels at that event meet this requirement.

So as far as I can see there is (rather to my surprise) nothing wrong with the RS100 having two separate World champions this time, provided one (presumably the small rig) is called a subsidiary, and also (assuming permission) nothing wrong with them not having an IJ. However unless they can ramp up turnouts appreciably they may well have problems in future maintaining the right to hold such events.
They also need to be very grateful to their one non-European competitor!!

[Later]
Its amusing that, if (big IF he says again) I read the regulations correctly then with an entry for the whole event of 38 boats from 6(I think) nations on two continents the whole event just scrapes into the regulations, and with 31 boats from 6 Nations and two continents the "subsidiary" worlds for the small rig just scrapes in, but the supposedly main world championships doesn't seem to be required to hit the 30/5/2 regulation. Not, I suspect what was intended! I wonder if there'll be a little rewriting of the regs coming up?


Edited by JimC - 07 Oct 13 at 10:01am

Originally posted by JimC They also need to be very grateful to their one non-European competitor!!

We had used the exception for having no IJ for a couple of Worlds in the B14s, but this year were fortunate to get sponsorship to cover their costs. They promptly set about causing mild chaos with their interpretation of Rule 42 as applied to boats surfing down waves...

less of the 'girlie rig' guff please, if you're not 100kg+ or 6ft + the 8.4m sail is perfectly adequate for getting the boat around a course and leaving a long-lasting grin

Think the RS100 bashing is getting a bit tedious folks, especially when it extends to about three simultaneous topics...