They do not allow use of any other word or combination of words that would lead reasonable people to believe that an event is a world or international championship.
This is definitely correct - Regulation 19.4.1.(c).
Your Formula 14 Class absolutely cannot call itself the International Formula 14 Catamaran Association.
This I am less certain about - at least I have been unable to find anything in the ISAF rules that deals with this. In fact given that this body is affiliated with Yachting Australia, my understanding is that they are free to organize any event they want to as long as they don't call them world championships. (RRS 88.1(c)). And this would include "international" events, such as inter-dominions, continentals etc.
The International Wave Class Association was duly incorporated as a non-profit association, but we were told we have to remove "International" from the name
I can see that would be a problem if the association name was being used as part of the description of an event that could be construed as claiming to be a world championship (though I think the legal grounds here are a bit shaky if the claim is not explicit).
Mary, was it someone from the ISAF who made this demand? Paul Henderson? Did they cite a particular regulation? I'm wondering if they were just trying to intimidate you, without actually having any real basis for the demand.
Mark.
