ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation

Posted By: mbounds

ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 11:59 AM

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ISAF is pleased to announce the venue and date for the equipment evaluation for the 2016 Olympic Women's Skiff and Mixed Multihull.
The evaluation will be held from 17 to 25 March 2012 at Prince Felipe High Performance Sailing Centre, Santander, Spain.

Participants will be asked to provide two complete boats at the venue. Preliminary documentation along with Notice of Intent to participate and application fee shall be supplied to ISAF by 20 January 2012.

Guidelines on the Proposals Process can be found here
+ Women's Two Person Skiff
+ Mixed Multihull

Response from ISAF with an invitation to participate will be sent to the manufacturer/supplier teams as early as possible and no later than 20 February 2012.

Posted By: jkkartz1

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 12:35 PM

The application fee is 600 GBP=$940.00

Posted By: P.M.

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 01:56 PM

4.(a)
-Two part mast

-Able to be shipped in a 6.1m (20 ft.) container

Posted By: Catfan

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 02:45 PM

Does anyone know which manufacturers sent (are going to send) their application, besides AHPC (Viper), Nacra (F16), Roland Gabler (Tornado), Alex Oudin/Martin Fisher (for the Phantom 18, a lightened F18)?

Posted By: catman

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 03:53 PM

Should anyone really care?

Posted By: brucat

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 03:55 PM

For pure entertainment value, sure.

Who here is directly affected by the equipment choice?

Mike

Posted By: Anonymous

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 06:25 PM

Well, if they pick the Wave I am pretty sure we'll pick up a sh!t-ton more sailors in the racing groups........

Posted By: F-18 5150

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 07:20 PM

Really a two person Wave. Come on Chris your better than that.

Posted By: Karl_Brogger

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/22/11 08:33 PM

No he isn't.

Posted By: daniel_t

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/23/11 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by brucat

Who here is directly affected by the equipment choice?

My guess is that anybody who currently has a boat that is picked, and anybody who wants to buy the kind of boat that happens to get picked.

Posted By: brucat

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/23/11 02:27 AM

That seems quite INdirect to me...

To me, direct would be if the equipment that is picked excludes you from a campaign you were actively planning on doing. While there is no shortage of people here that will swear the sky is falling at times (as various announcements are made), the number of people here directly affected is less than one hand, perhaps less than one finger.

Direct/indirect/no impact are decisions we make daily at work. Same logic applies here.

Mike

Posted By: daniel_t

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/23/11 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by brucat

Direct/indirect/no impact are decisions we make daily at work. Same logic applies here.

Wow, such a restrictive definition of "direct." In that case, the olympic committee's choice impacts me more directly than most of what I hear in the news.

I think it is safe to say that direct vs indirect is not a dichotomy, there are varying degrees of directness and we don't have to agree on where the line is drawn.

Posted By: brucat

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/24/11 02:00 AM

In my (heavily regulated) industry, direct vs. indirect is absolutely a dichotomy. There are degrees within indirect.

This is acutally a good thing, it makes other decisions much easier to make.

Mike

Posted By: F-18 5150

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/24/11 05:03 AM

I hope the Tiger is chosen as the O-class and made illegal to run in the F-18 series. Then I would have to buy a new boat to run F-18 on.

Posted By: rhodysail

Re: ISAF Announces 2016 Olympic Mixed Multihull Evaluation - 12/25/11 03:34 AM

Originally Posted by xanderwess

Well, if they pick the Wave I am pretty sure we'll pick up a sh!t-ton more sailors in the racing groups........

I think it would have the opposite effect, after an initial spike in Wave sailors in the first quadrennium you would see a big drop with a net loss in the number of Wave sailors by the second quad. Historically that’s the way things tend to go.