When will the 2013 rules come into effect?

Originally posted by Presuming Ed There are already rules for kitesurfing. Appendix BB.  http://www.sailing.org/classesandequipment/19935.php

I read through many of the submission some time ago.

There is a rewrite of rule 18 in the offing, which does not change anything (until the team racers have a go at it!) but makes the rule easier to read.

There is a move to generalise the use of hand signals (as in match racing) when rule 20 Room  to Tack applies.



A few annoying details may creep in - like making the orange flag 10 mins before first start compulsory.

We shall see what gets through - I suspect that delegates will be more concerned with bringing back sailing for light heavyweights to the Olympics (welcome back the Star) and the board/kite debate!

If you want, you can go through the submissions to the racing rules committee meeting last November at the ISAF annual meeting. Then you check the minutes to see what the RRC approved, and then check council minutes to see what made it through council. Then AIUI the various RWPs give a final edit and polish. 

Edited by Presuming Ed - 31 Aug 12 at 8:13pm

I believe boats which are monhulls at the front but cats at the back are going to be banned.

Or maybe that was under the Geneva Convention...

So you don't actually have too many choices judging by that: individual events in 2009 had to be run under 2009 rules, and presumably the same will apply in 2013.
Will you be using anything from the ISAF rules in the part of your SIs that refers to scoring anyway? If so it would probably make sense to simply cut and paste the text from the old RRS rather than refer to them.
If in doubt I suggest you email the RYA in the name of the club and ask for advice. Their rules experts will have a pretty shrewed idea of what's going to be changing anyway.