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Volume 35 Spring 2017 Snipe Bulletin Commodore International Rules Committee Editor: Jerelyn Biehl Gweneth Crook Antonio Bari Publication Information N. Vancouver, Canada Trento, Italy SNIPE BULLETIN (ISSN 08996288 & PMA [email protected] [email protected] #40612608) is published quarterly and is part of membership of the organization. Subscriptions are available for $10 per year by the Snipe Class Vice Commodore General Secretary – Europe International Racing Association, Incorporated Pietro Fantoni Martin Bermudez de la Puente (not for profit), 2812 Canon Street, San Diego, Moruzzo, Udine, Italy Madrid, Spain CA 92106 USA. [email protected] [email protected] The SNIPE SILHOUETTE and the INTERNATIONAL SNIPE CLASS CREST and the SNIPE BULLETIN are Trademarks Secretary General Secretary – Western of the Snipe Class International Racing Luis Soubie Hemisphere & Orient Association. The SNIPE SILHOUETTE and Argentina Raul Rios, Sr. the INTERNATIONAL SNIPE CLASS CREST marks are registered in the U.S. Patent and [email protected] Puerto Rico Trademark Office. [email protected] Treasurer US POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Renee Bartell Executive Director SNIPE BULLETIN Costa Mesa, California USA Jerelyn Biehl 2812 Canon Street 2812 Canon Street San Diego, CA 92106 USA San Diego, California USA 92106 CANADA POST: USA Send address changes to: +619-224-6998 Bleuchip International PO Box 25542 [email protected] London, ON N6C 6B2 Snipe Bulletin Spring 2017 2 In This Issue From the Commodore I am still experiencing winter here in the north and am Regatta Reports looking forward to spring and what the summer may bring. Brazilian Nationals The Snipe Class is pleased to announce that the process of Comodoro Rasco moving our Class rules to the World Sailing rules format Ecuador Districts has been completed. We hope to get a printed version of the rules out to our members soon. You may access the electronic version on the Class website www.snipe.org. Articles 2017 Proposal A little background on this long and involved process, International Rankings February 2, 2010 the first draft was submitted to World 2017 Worlds allocation Sailing by then Rules Committee Chairman Giorgio Classic Snipes Brezich. Antonio Bari stepped in after Giorgio retired Remembering Gary Lewis and now after 6 years and 8 drafts we have the final version. It has been an enormous undertaking as we are one of the older classes, founded in 1932, and we still allow Worlds Preview people to build their own boats. Ensuring that the tolerances and conversion match to Alpen Preview World Sailing equipment rules has been challenging. Moving forward the rules change process should be easier. Reports & Calendar You will find that the content and intent of Class rules have not changed; it is more the Technical Committee way they are organized in a friendlier, easier to use format: European General Secretary Part I – Administration 2017 Membership Section A - General 2017 Racing Calendar Section B - Boat Eligibility Part II – Requirements and Limitations National Secretary Update Section C - Conditions for Racing SCIRA welcomes our newest Section D -Hull Section E - Hull Appendages country to the Snipe world! Section F - Rig Austria: Ezio Prataviera Section G – Sails Part III – Appendices The Cover: Action from The Class owes a huge debt of gratitude to the efforts of Rules Chairmen, Giorgio the 2015 Worlds in Talam- Brezich, Antonio Bari and their Rules Committee members. The number of hours one. Read the article of fleet involved in working with World Sailing to complete this conversion has been extensive. splits. Matias Cappizano We cannot thank you enough! photo. The Board is considering changing the Snipe Bulletin to an electronic version only; we have had several discussions about this. It would be more cost effective and allow us to disperse funds to other areas such as promoting the Class and coaching clinics. We The Count: 5 new numbers want to have feedback from you on whether this is what you want. Remember that I have been issued since the last am available to you at [email protected] Bulletin: BRA 1, ESP 2, JPN 1, SCIRA is looking for hosts for the 2018 World Masters to be held in Europe and the and 1 to a builder 2018 Women’s Championship/Worlds which is open to bids from any part of the world. To try and get the World Championship rotation back on track the Board has decided Numbered Snipes: 31411 to open the bidding for the 2019 Junior and Senior Worlds. If you are interested in 897 hosting any of these Championships please get in touch with your National Secretary. Chartered Fleets: I will be attending the World Championships and the US Nationals this year. If my vaca- Habsburg, Austria tion time and budget permits I am also hoping to attend the Japanese Nationals which are celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year! Here is hoping you have fair winds in 2017. NEXT DEADLINE JUNE 1 3 Spring 2017 Snipe Bulletin From the Rules Committee except where varied in this Part.” Ready This said, it is obvious that the ERS from WS The new Snipe Class Rules are finally ready. will be a must in our bookshelf. Four years of writing, sending to World Sailing, waiting for comments, In this section we find the first true change reading the suggestions, changing words, paragraphs, sentences, sending from the old rules: the crew is now of two again to World Sailing, waiting again… 8 different versions of the rules persons. Formerly it was at least of two persons. until the final approval by the World Sailing Federation. To change what? Sections from D to G are specific for any part of the boat and aremainly Nothing, of course. The Snipe remains the same fantastic boat we all responsibility of the builder as they are about the construction of the know since 1931: same hull, same sails, same rudder… all the same. boat, appendages, rig and sails. In those sections you will find new names One may ask: ”Why have you done all this work to change nothing?” for well known parts of the boat, such as gunwale, sheer strakes or twarts: The answer is easy: nobody wanted to change the boat, but times are nothing changes, those are the definition used in the ERS to whom we changing and World Sailing has requested to the international classes shall comply. to write their rules according to a common format which has a specific structure anybody can understand. Finally, Part 3, Appendix: all the building plans of the boat and its part are in this section. The drawings have been updated to the new definitions First, the introduction. Few words, but really and to reflect the changes introduced clear: “Snipe hulls, hull appendages, rigs and sails during the past years. You won’t find the are measurement controlled. Equipment is required famous “Point 0”, the beginning of all the to comply with the International Snipe Building hull measurement, which is now Hull datum Specification. […] point, nor the rudder’s “knuckle”, now Snipe hulls, hull appendages, rigs and sails may, Rudder datum point. The “Top band” is now after having left the manufacturer, only be altered Upper limiting mark, but is exactly in the to the extent permitted in Section C of the class same place. Same way, you won’t find any rules. specifications regarding how to measure Rules regulating the use of equipment during a race the distance between the bands on the mast are contained in Section C of these class rules, in (“From the lower part of the top band to Equipment Rules of Sailing (ERS) Part I and in the the upper part of the lower band”) because, Racing Rules of Sailing. according to the ERS, the sentence From the Owners and crews should be aware that compliance upper limiting mark to the lower limiting mark with rules in Section C is not checked as part of the includes any further specification. More certification process.” over, the centre of gravity of the mast is Nothing to add, I believe. The rules specify now measured according to the ERS, which how can the boats be altered and which rules say that this measurement shall be taken regulate the use of the equipment. All to be from the Mast datum point (formerly the followed in any respect. Any of the mentioned sheer on the mast, positioned at 6109mm documents are downloadable from the web. from the top band), not from the lower But, the last sentence of the introduction shall band on the mast. The CG is in the same be kept in mind: THESE RULES ARE CLOSED place, of course, only the measurement is CLASS RULES. WHERE IF IT DOES NOT different. SPECIFICALLY SAY THAT YOU MAY – THEN YOU SHALL NOT. Converting the old General Restrictions to The aim of the new class rules is to say what can be done, to avoid any the new Class Rules has been hard work due to the different philosophy interpretations. This will not be for sure at the beginning, when there will of the two documents and I’m sure that we’ll probably find some probably be requests for explanation of the new text, but that is the goal: mistakes or oversights during the next months. The Rules Committee no more rules interpretations. has done all its best, with the support of World Sailing, to write these Class Rules. Now it’s your turn, as Snipe sailors, measurers, fleet captains Then Part 1, Administration. Section A is about who is responsible of or in any way involved in the Snipe life to read and comment the new what about the administration of the class and the boats, Section B is text.