How many "likes" required for you to share?And as a side note ... the ILCA is now telling a new version of the Kirby/LP/PSA story. Just as deceptive as the first version.
ISAF: What are they thinking?So the Jan edition of Laserworld is out and includes a summary from the ILCA World Council Meeting. The following jumped out regarding proposals ISAF are working on. Trying to find the ISAF side of the story. Anybody know more?
http://www.laserinternational.org/sites/default/files/LaserWorld_Jan_2014_LR.pdf
“The proposed format change would reduce the number of competitors at World Cup events with entry by invitation only. In addition, the world championship title for all Olympic classes would be awarded to the winner of the World Cup series and would no longer be awarded at the ILCA championship.
Another ISAF issue affecting the Laser Class relates to the number of world championships a class is allowed to hold. The ISAF Regulations limit the number of world championships to four. If ISAF chooses to enforce this regulation, it could mean a reduction in the number of ILCA world titles and possibly stripping the world title from the Masters’ World Championships and one or more Radial World Championships. ILCA is opposed to this arbitrary limit on world championships and is committed to working with the ISAF so that the class can continue to host all its class championships in the future.”
I'm not sure if it's legal or not, Chief Measurer needs t make that decision, but as the rules currently stand if this had been presented to me, I would not have permitted it's use until an official interpretation had been received. This a the second time in recent years that an article has slipped through where it appears the chief measurer had not been consulted.Just one point about the Ronstan sheaveless pulley discussed in LaserWorld: it's not Laser-legal. Someone should have copy-checked this with the Measurers.
A “Turning Point” is a sheave (pulley) in a block, a rope loop, a rope loop reinforced with a thimble, the outhaul fairlead, a shackle, part of a fitting, sail cringle, mast or boom around which a moving Control Line passes, except that the cunningham fairlead, the “Optional” blocks attached to the “Builder Supplied” deck block fitting, the cunningham clam cleat, and the “Optional” cam cleats attached to the “Builder Supplied” deck cleat base will not be counted as “Turning Points” in Rules 3(e)i and 3(f)I.
Maybe, that is what I meant about the "intent" of the rules. But the turning points are not the same as "option blocks" which have specific rules applying to them.The precedent was made a couple of decades ago when they allowed sailors to make "loops" in their lines to act as turning points. Then they allowed sailors to place plastic/metal thimbles in those loops. They are in effect sheaveless blocks.