New Rules in the New Year
The current Racing Rules of Sailing run to 31 December 2020 and the next edition will become effective in the middle of most of Australia’s sailing season.
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Introducing Glen Stanaway
The Head of Safety Rules and Representation is Glen Stanaway and he’s been with Australian Sailing for fourteen years after a varied career and equally varied sport interests.
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Working in the Cup with Graeme Owens
Umpiring was the one of the great legacies from several America’s Cup officials including Australia’s own Graeme Owens.
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Umpired Fleet Racing and Testing New Rules
Rule 86.3 allows for the testing of new rules such as Addendum Q which provides for umpired fleet racing. These rules have been used by several fleets in Australia and New Zealand with success.
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Technical Committee Protest - 470’s at Sail Melbourne
Shaun Ritson was appointed the Technical Committee for Sail Melbourne 2020, in this position according to the RRS he had to protest two 470 teams.
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Rules Specialist Group Opinions
Two more answers to Rules questions have been published to the Australian Sailing website.
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International Umpire Seminar in NZL
Yachting New Zealand and World Sailing are holding an International Umpire seminar in Auckland from 6 to 11 October 2020 in Auckland.
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International Race Officials’ New Applications
World Sailing has recently issued advice on the national authority’s quality control role when considering endorsements to International Race Officials’ new applications.
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Decision to Race
Race Committees are often faced with the decision to race or not to race when weather forecasts could be marginal. Here is a case study from the recent Australian Yachting Championship.
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Changes to Sail Number Rules
At the 2019 World Sailing meetings their Racing Rules Committee approved changes to the rules relating to sail numbers.
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Appeal Decisions Published
There have been two new appeal decisions published to the Australian Sailing website.
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Resources for submitting an appeal
Documents have been recently added to the Appeals section of our website.Â
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Patterns of Problems
​​​​​​​Common problems are being seen in appeals recently handed by Australian Sailing showing a pattern that can be easily reversed.
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Working in the Cup
John was fortunate to get selected for the 1999-2000 Cup in New Zealand having only been an International Umpire for a couple of years but he had a good regatta and, despite only being contracted for the initial stages of the Louis Vuitton Cup he went on to umpire in the Louis Vuitton finals and all the Americas Cup races.
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Interesting updates from World Sailing and other National Authorities:
World Sailing has released some updates to the Case and Call Books both of which are authoritative documents on the rules.
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