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 - 3.21.1 Drinking Water Tank – withdrawn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
Oceanic & Offshore Committee
Present:
Matt Allen (AUS) – Chairperson
Corinne Migraine (FRA) – Vice-Chairperson
Paddy Boyd (IRL)
Denise Caffari (GBR)
Bruno Finzi (ITA)
– Yasutaka Funazawa (JPN)
– Hylton Hale (RSA)
Sally Honey (USA)
Stan Honey (USA)
– Simon James (THA)
Alan Massey (GBR)
Glen Stanaway (AUS)
– Kun (Vicky) Song (CHN)
3. Chairman’s Report
Matt Allen spoke about the huge amount of offshore capable yachts that are presently in the world.
4 Technology and Offshore Raing
Organizing Authorities make policy decisions around rule circumventions
Autopilots is a common example
– OSR Appendix M is wording example to include in NoR to inhibit technology to see the water in front of the boat
Also holds text to allow for fee weather data without routing..
Offshore Vision, presented by Katrina Ham;
Inspired by Olympic Vision, participation in the Fastnet was appx 10x the Olympics
WS emphasized their contributions to Offshore racing.
WS 2024 Development Symposium will include Offshore Racing.
5. International Regulations Commission
Concerns about future autonomous shipping and continued concern regarding containers lost overboard of which there are about 3000 per year.
6. Working Parties
Keel working party
Richard Hintertoller spoke about the now adopted ISO TC 188/WG9 is undertaking a revision of all three parts of ISO 12217 that specifies requirements and procedures for small craft stability, buoyancy assessment and categorization.
UMS
Zoran(ORC) and Jason Smithwick(IRC/RORC) reported on the progress of WS IHC sails that can be measured only once and be used in both systems.
7. Safety Update
8. Reports from Rating Systems
9. Submissions
10. Offshore Advisory Group
11. Offshore Double Handed World Championships
12. World Sailing Class Status
13. Offshore Special Regulations
14. Sailor Categorization Code
15. Oceanic Concordat
16. World Sailing Speed Record Council
17. World Sailing Sustainability Agenda 2030
18. Any Other Business