by Stephen Crewes » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:41 am
G'day Forum, well I have been reading your chat and certain things come forward. The first thing is , "what do we want to achieve"? Well from my point of view, I would like to achieve, some sort of harmony. to our discussions. Next, that I think we should not try not to re-invent the wheel here.We have here a top little boat , that, if we give it half a chance will change the face of R/C yachting in a one-design class.
Woody asked the question of which sailing rules do we use? And it is a very valid question.
The way I see it, we all sail the InternationalRacing Rules which we call locally, "The blue book". What we do in our individual countries, is up those individual countries. The basic thing to keep in mind is that all of these boats will pretty much sail the same in performance.
I might add that what is happening in Individual countries in regards internally, I'm not interested in. I have enough problems promoting my own backyard!! And having Fun!
And if I might say to Woody, that it doesn't matter if there is only one boat in your country or many , your country is a valid part of the World family, of EC12s. The Englishman John Cleaves was the last World champion of EC12 Match racing.
In Australia we are going through a EC12 Rules re-Write at this very moment, by our National body. This is not to say there was anything wrong with the individual rules, that have multiplied over the years from various sources. There was a need to qualify them all into one rule for Australia. So we can sail with a uniform EC12 rule for Australia. Our basic rules could be SAY 43" LWL , 1200 Sq" sail and 25lb in weight? Now you blokes who are designers out there, know that boats who all fit that type of criteria and look pretty much alike, will have a similar racing perfomance. And Perhaps, we can have our individual National rules and still fit into the family of EC12s.
This is basically what I see.
G'day Forum, well I have been reading your chat and certain things come forward. The first thing is , "what do we want to achieve"? Well from my point of view, I would like to achieve, some sort of harmony. to our discussions. Next, that I think we should not try not to re-invent the wheel here.We have here a top little boat , that, if we give it half a chance will change the face of R/C yachting in a one-design class.
Woody asked the question of which sailing rules do we use? And it is a very valid question.
The way I see it, we all sail the InternationalRacing Rules which we call locally, "The blue book". What we do in our individual countries, is up those individual countries. The basic thing to keep in mind is that all of these boats will pretty much sail the same in performance.
I might add that what is happening in Individual countries in regards internally, I'm not interested in. I have enough problems promoting my own backyard!! And having Fun!
And if I might say to Woody, that it doesn't matter if there is only one boat in your country or many , your country is a valid part of the World family, of EC12s. The Englishman John Cleaves was the last World champion of EC12 Match racing.
In Australia we are going through a EC12 Rules re-Write at this very moment, by our National body. This is not to say there was anything wrong with the individual rules, that have multiplied over the years from various sources. There was a need to qualify them all into one rule for Australia. So we can sail with a uniform EC12 rule for Australia. Our basic rules could be SAY 43" LWL , 1200 Sq" sail and 25lb in weight? Now you blokes who are designers out there, know that boats who all fit that type of criteria and look pretty much alike, will have a similar racing perfomance. And Perhaps, we can have our individual National rules and still fit into the family of EC12s.
This is basically what I see.
