Forum: The Racing Rules of Sailing
Applicability of Equipment Rules of Sailing (ERS)
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Christopher WalmsleyNationality: Canada
Certifications:
- Club Race Officer
- National Judge
- Fleet Measurer
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This question may be somewhat specific to the Sail Canada Prescriptions.
- Sail Canada Prescription 2017-2020: Includes "64.3: Sail Canada prescribes that unless otherwise provided in its class rules, the Equipment Rules of Sailing shall apply to all classes racing in Canada. "
- Sail Canada Prescriptions 2021-2024: No longer include anything related to ERS.
- Notice of Race Guide 2017-2020 and 2021-2024: suggests including the "The Equipment Rules of Sailing, to the extent that they apply will apply"
Question:
- Does anyone know why Sail Canada removed the 64.3 prescription?
- Was it just to bring Sail Canada prescriptions into alighment to most other countries (US Sailing for example) that didn't include references to 64.3?
- I wonder how many SI/NORs put forward since 2021 may have failed to add their own requirement for use of the ERSs. These documents are often edited year over rear and could have relied on the older Sail Canada prescription to bring the ERSs into force.
Chris
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OAs in Canada that prepare a Notice of Race for an event are advised and urged to first check the World Sailing website for World Sailing's most recently published NoR and SI templates prior to finalizing and posting or publishing such race documents.
Cheers,
Rick Hatch, IJ/NU (CAN)
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Applicability
The ERS are rules only if they are invoked by:
(a) Class Rules.
(b) Adoption in the notice of race and sailing instructions.
(c) Prescriptions of an MNA for races under its jurisdiction.
(d) World Sailing Regulations, or
(e) Other documents that govern an event.
(you will see this same question sent to your committee, you can ignore that if you wish)
This is mostly just a discussion on consistency of applicaton and recomendations.
A follow-up:
informally refers to the definitions in the ERS, but does not "invoke" them beyond that)
Phillip, thanks for highlighting that:
In my small sampling of reviews of various class rules, I found one referencing/invoking the ERSs and most other having no references.
Chris
The ERS may be rules if a Regulation says they are.
Good luck finding out in the 260 pages of mind-numbing, redundant Regulations.
I did find the following in the above docume t for WS classes:
So ...
I haven't yet found anything that designates these guidelines as having the "status of rules" .... so while the intent is clear, I can't yet draw a line from the applicability of the ERSs and being an official rule or regulation (unless mentioned explicitly by class rules or NOR/SIs).
Chris
For instance, below is an example of how the J/105 CR’s leverage the ERS … using the sail measurement process as well as using the defined terms shown in bold.