ISAF RRS changes
for 2010
Following the recent ISAF annual conference,
please take a look at the following link for amendments
to the 2009 - 2012 Racing Rules of Sailing which will
become effective from 1st January 2010.
Taken from the recent Y&Y article
"The International Sailing Federation announced
today that, as a result of actions taken by the ISAF
Racing Rules Committee and the ISAF Council during the
ISAF Annual Conference, several changes in The Racing
Rules of Sailing for 2009-2012 will take effect on 1
January 2010.
Rule 18.2(c) will be changed to prohibit
a newly discovered and potentially dangerous tactic
that was an unintended consequence of the current wording
of this rule. The revised rule will no longer permit
a boat to tack just before she reaches a mark and, as
a result of her tack, become entitled to mark-room from
boats that had been clear ahead of her when they reached
the zone. A parallel change in rule B3.1(c) outlaws
a similar tactic in a sailboard race.
The definition Obstruction will be changed
so that a boat racing will no longer be an obstruction
to other boats that are required to give her room or
mark-room. This change will simplify the analysis of
some situations near a mark in which both rules 18 and
19 apply, and it will not otherwise change the 'game'.
Additions will be made to the definition
Party to correct unintended omissions. The revised definition
will mean that, whenever redress is requested for a
boat by the race committee or considered for a boat
by the protest committee, that boat will be a party
to the resulting hearing. Also, a race committee that
requests redress for a boat will also become a party
when its request is heard.
A new rule, rule C2.12, will be added
to the Match Racing Rules. It will prohibit a tactic
at the windward mark that the match racing community
does not wish to allow.
After the 2009 rulebook was printed, ISAF
revised its Advertising Code and, in so doing, eliminated
all references to Category A advertising. References
to the Advertising Code in Appendices J, K and L will
be changed to make them consistent with the revised
Code."
http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/RRS20092012Sup1-%5B7907%5D.pdf
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