Answers :
1. Must you own the boat before applying?
No, but you must own it before voting.
a. What if a person is awaiting on the builder?
Entering the commitment of purchase is considered ownership. So as soon as you have made a downpayment or signed a order contract you are considered to be an owner of an F16 boat. Membership is applicable from that moment onward.
2. The required information name, boat, club, location ect... Will go directly to the chairman and NOT to the local reps?
This is not ruled upon and it is free to the person seeking membership how or through whom he or she gets the information to the F16 authority (also known as the international F16 class cel or project)
I would welcome it very much if the local reps stimulated membership and even handled some of the work involved.
That'll allow me to spend more time on things like the website and participating my own F16 calender.
One thing to note thought is that one is only a member after the F16 class authority by way the chairman has confimed receiving the required info in good order.
We must take care not to end up with conflicting procedures.
3. Once the chairman recieves the information, will he or she point the person requesting membership to the local rep?
Yes, that will be part of the standard welcome package; together with probably a list of nearby boats. As in supplying the "boat type/club name/club location" combination.
I'm trying to implement a single point of contact for new owners in the international body that we can then use to refer the new owners to projects and fellow sailors nearby. As you see the Class authority cel (international body) is working as a communication core again.
Keep them coming !
Wouter
I will post more as soon as I think of them.