Special Regs Sub-committe 2024
Agenda
Notes on submissions:
- Refinements since the 2024-2025 regulations were published. – Passes!
- Recommendations arising from the Refinement Working Party survey. – Passes!
- 3.03.1 Hull Construction Standards (Scantlings) – Passes!
- Rule 3.14.1 e / Pulpits, Stanchions, Lifelines – Rejected!
- Clarification of use of lifelines in areas of bulwarks – Rejected! Will be handled by interpretation instead of a changed regulation. – Request made by the ORC for an interpretation ASAP.
Rely on OED; Bulwark (nautical), a nautical term for the extension of a ship’s side above the level of a weather deck. - 3.21.1 Drinking Water Tank – withdrawn
- OSR 3.29 Communications Equipment, GPS, Radar, AIS – second VHF – amended text in omitting the second MoMu0 paragraph deletion – Passes!
- OSR 3.29 Communications Equipment, GPS, Radar, AIS – speaker in cockpit. – Passes!
- 4.07 Flashlights and Searchlights – Passes with friendly amendment that ”operable” is changed to ”accessible”
- 4.26 Storm & Heavy Weather Sail Inventory – Rejected but with acknowledgement of the problem with the existing situation.
- Description of purpose of storm & heavy weather sails – Accepted and proposed to be an urgent submission.
- 5.01 Lifejacket – Rejected
- Rule 3.04 Stability-Monohulls – To come into effect January 2027
A very important submission about safety of stability that was vigourously debated regarding the need and also friendly amended to in the meantime allow CE markings and then Passed!
Safety Incident Reporting – A submission from the Board and the Oceanic and Offshore Committee Chair
Submission was supported by committée but decisions will be taken in council after recommendation from both committées
Keel Improvements
Glen Stanaway, Australan Sailing reported on the ongoing keel improvement project, unfortunately keels keep falling off and the results of the Appendix L additions do not seem to help too much in this aspect.
Glen showed 2 picures of keels that would have been prone to fall off but had been impossible to detect from a visual inspection…
Read the report on the very similarly equipped Big hairy yach accident