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MrGin
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Topic: How international is sailing? Posted: 03 May 13 at 4:20pm |
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Both ISAF and the RYA are both adminstrators for there classes. The National Class associations recommend to the RYA about rule changes and the RYA check the validity of the changes and then adminstrate them by releasing new class rules, I suspect it works the same for a lot of the ISAF class associations ( ie GP14) except for the Manufacture's classes that only have one builder ( ie RS / topper).
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Presuming Ed
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 13 at 10:32pm | |
Used to be how it works. Local classes, national classes (which hold nationals), international classes which hold worlds.
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Clive Evans
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The wayfarer was an interesting one, when I worked at ISAF I had to write to them instructing them to not use the term "world" not something I'm pleased to have had to do About the same time there was a trend to send ringers to the worlds with fabricated nationalities in an attempt to make it look like a class was more international The favourite was to get a Brit or European who was working in Dubai to stick UAE on the sail to boost the continents when they are not citizens of that country, to be honest it's really obvious what they are doing when you are sat at ISAF making decisions so I'm not sure why they bothered! For example I'm in Australia now and sail with Australian sail numbers whilst here but if I went to a worlds I could display AUS but I can't count as an Australian entrant since I'm not a citizen of Australia That's why activity in the required number of countries is looked for not worlds attendance - it's too easy to find dual citizens to display exotic sail numbers, much harder to get fleets of boats It would appear the holiday centres are the new loop, but having 20 fevas on a beach in Egypt sailed by British holiday makers doesn't make an international class either does it? |
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Clive Evans
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 13 at 6:57am | |
Looking at the results there's 2 from Denmark, Sweden, France and one from Canada Seems pretty international to me! It would have cost thousands of pounds to transport a boat to Barbados and fly with accommodation etc factors like that would have limited the attending nations Still with that considered 8 nations represented from 3 continents in one of the least accessible, albeit glorious, venues in the world speaks volumes for the class
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Mike Holt
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 13 at 3:27pm | |
More representative would be the 505 Worlds in 2012, in France, 188 boats, 15 countries, 3 continents.
Although probably a better way to tell if a class is truly "International" is how many countries host a National Championship for that class.
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2547
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 13 at 5:05pm | |
Ah, that is a bit more what I'd expect to see for the 505. I guess any event outside of Europe will have a diminished fleet due to cost.
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