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News NEW COURSE FOR TEAM RACING AND OTHERS...
NEW COURSE FOR TEAM RACING AND OTHERS...
In response to the demand of the IODA members in the recent championships, the Team Racing events of the class have been modified in an attempt to bring them closer to other major team racing events. These changes will in provide our sailors with experience that will be directly applicable in their adult sailing life.
The introduction of the 2009-2012 Racing Rules of Sailing and some recent work by the Regatta Committee has resulted in some changes to both rules and format for some Continental Championships and to the Worlds. To give you all the opportunity to prepare for these changes and in some instances consider adopting them at National and Club level, we are detailing them here.
The RRS definition of zone has been changed to:
| Zone: The area around a mark within a distance of three hull lengths of the boat nearer to it. A boat is in the zone when any part of her hull is in the zone. |
RRS 86.1(b) permits the SIs to change the zone distance to two or four hull lengths. This year for all IODA Continental and World Championships, we will adopt the default distance of three hull lengths.
For team racing, IODA will adopt D1.1(a):
D1 CHANGES TO THE RACING RULES D1.1 Changes to the Definitions and the Rules of Part 2 (a) In the definition Zone the distance is changed to two hull lengths. |
Team Racing
In response to the demand of the IODA members in the recent championships, the Team Racing events of the class have been modified in an attempt to bring them closer to other major team racing events. These changes will in provide our sailors with experience that will be directly applicable in their adult sailing life.
Team Racing at the Worlds and all Continentals except the SAMs in 2009, will use the
