As people may be aware, a number of people have been reviewing the
SCHRS rule. Jason Smithwick, ISAF committee member, recently attended
the ISAF Annual meetings in Finland and at these meetings it was recognised
that an International SCHRS “Rule Management Group" should be formed.
This group reports to the chair of the ISAF equipment committee and while
informal at present, it will be ratified by ISAF council at the next annual
meeting in 2007. This group is formed thus:

Simon Longstaff – Chairperson, U.K.
Olivier Bovyn - ISAF Rep., France
Colin Whitehead – Member, South Africa
Olly Harris -Technical, U.K.
Jason Smithwick - ISAF Rep. and Technical, U.K.
David Chivers -Measurer
Simon Forbes - ISAF Staff
Other mainland European representative
Other U.S./ Australasian

This group will be charged with the day-to-day running, administration,
application and development of the ISAF SCHRS rule. The group have made
good progress on an initial set of amendments and are continuing to work on
revisions to the rule. The group are planning to have these complete and
ready for submission to ISAF in time for adoption by early spring 2007.

Ehhm, how can I best put this ?

Since we are at the formation stage of the committee, does this mean that the modifications to SCHRS will not presented to the public soon.

Afterall, between the formation of a task group and the final publication of results often are many intermediate approval stages, all of which in ISAF terms take very long to complete.

I remember it took ISAF 3 to 4 years to announce the youth boat after having their trials at Quiberon.

Or am I wrong in this as I really do hope I am.

Wouter

Sorry Scooby,

Was out of line here.

I should have remembered.

Wouter

Just looking at some of the numbers:

F18s at 1.01, which is the same as Hurricane 5.9 (almost the same boat as the Hobie 20 over here)

Hurricane 5.9 (no spin) is the same as the Hurricane 5.9 SX (spin) and only slightly slower than Hurricane 5.9 Sport (also spin). Both the spin versions are heavier, but not greatly so.

Over here the Tigers are about 4% faster than the 20s, and I suspect this is mostly due to the chute. This system seems to have very little penalty for carrying the chute. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Just looking at some of the numbers:

F18s at 1.01, which is the same as Hurricane 5.9 (almost the same boat as the Hobie 20 over here)

Hurricane 5.9 (no spin) is the same as the Hurricane 5.9 SX (spin) and only slightly slower than Hurricane 5.9 Sport (also spin). Both the spin versions are heavier, but not greatly so.

Over here the Tigers are about 4% faster than the 20s, and I suspect this is mostly due to the chute. This system seems to have very little penalty for carrying the chute. Am I missing something?
Thanks!

I might be wrong, but I think that the Sport has the Tornado jib, which is also a bit smaller than the standard 5.9 jib.

I really don't have an axe to grind here.

I'm not claiming that I don't know any of this. I'm just wondering for how long ISAF procedures are going to stall effectuating the new system.

A perfect legitimate question. I really don't have an axe to grind here.

Wouter

How many times do I have to say that we are just waiting for formal ISAF sign-off of the new rules.

GEEZ !




This is in your own words exactly the point I was making.

Now don't shoot the messenger.

Wouter

What is the reasoning for all the secrecy about the new schrs ratings? Why can't the new ratings be published?

What difference does it make to allow the rank and file to see the suggestions before they are set in stone? There might even be a sensible comment from one of us before the "signing off".

I assume that once they are approved there will be little chance of changing them for a number of years. What do you think?

From the Daily Sail, So I assume that they had a small chat about SCHRS?

ISAF held their International Measurers Conference at the weekend
The ISAF International Measurers Conference took place over the weekend, with Race Officials from 20 nations gathering in Southampton, Great Britain. The latest in a series of Conferences in the ISAF Race Officials Programme provided a forum for some of the top IMs around the world to exchange ideas and debate the key issues surrounding an often overlooked area of officialdom.