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World Annual Conference Barcelona 5 – 13.11.2016 Kurt Lönnqvist, Tom Schubert, Sari Multala, Patrick Lindqvist, Lars Nyqvist, Michael Röllich Notes from the meeting

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Tämän muistion liitteenä on osallistujien muistiinpanot kokouksista ja tapaamisista.

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A. Kurt Lönnqvist…………………………..….4

Focus areas of the Annual Meeting

Key decisions

President and Vice Presidents elected

B. Tom Schubert………………….……….….5

Constitution Committee

C. Sari Multala…………………………...….11

Commercial Forum

Events Committee

D. Patrick Lindqvist……………………...…..17

International Regulations

Offshore Classes Event Committee

E. Lars Nyqvist……………………………….21

International Judges Sub Committee

D. Michael Röllich……………………………23

International Judges Sub-Committee

Race Management Sub-Committee

Match Racing Committee

International Umpires Sub-Committee

Race Officials Committee

Racing Rules Committee

Events Committee

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A. Kurt Lönnqvist

World Sailing annual meeting Barcelona: The meeting had 3 focus areas plus business as usual. - Sustainability - Para - Commercial Strategy for the sport All forums where well-arranged and good material is available on the World Sailing Site

Key decisions were:

• To block the same 10 Olympic events from Rio for Tokyo, the format will be decided before February 28th. • It was decided to propose 50/50 gender equality to IOC. • World sailing will propose an 11th medal event • World sailing will propose 12th showcase event just for Tokyo. • The new board was elected: • from Denmark was elected president.

Vice presidents elected: Jan Dawson (NZL) (BRA) Gary Jobson (USA) reelected Quanhai Li (CHN) reelected W Scott Perry (URU) reelected Ana Sanchez (ESP) Nadine Stegenwalner (GER)

Reelecting 3 vice presidents gives a good base for continuity.

Kurre Groupe G council edustaja

4 B. Tom Schubert

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10 C. Sari Multala

World Sailing Annual Conference Barcelona 2016

Ensimmäistä kertaa järjestettiin Commercial Forum, jota olin kuuntelemassa.

Huomioita Commercial Forumista:

• yritystä luoda kaupallinen strategia lajille - ulkopuoliset konsultit kertoivat paljon siitä, miltä purjehdus näyttää nyt verrattuna muihin lajeihin muun muassa • Tiedon kerääminen on tärkeää • World sailing show youtubessa - kuulin tästä ensimmäisen kerran tuolla, vaikka tätä on tuotettu vuosi • Facebook: ota myös avainpelaajat mukaan tiedonvälitykseen • Videosisältöä! Ihmiset avaavat todennäköisimmin FB:n kuin meilin • Suunnitelmat kuulostivat periaatteessa hyviltä, mutta hyvin epäselväksi jäi, miten ne aiotaan käytännössä toteuttaa eli miten viedään läpi WS:n päätöksentekoprosessista

Events Committee raportti:

Raportti Rion kisoista, karsinnasta jne.

• 91 (94) kansallisuutta osallistui Rion karsintoihin - viisi maata jätti paikkoja käyttämättä, uudelleenallokointia pitää parantaa, vaikka kaikki paikat saatiin käytettyä • Lyhennetty kisaohjelma toimi, vain kahtena päivänä ei tuullut (tosin oli MR päiviä) • Suosituksia tulevaan: joitain kisamuotoja voisi muuttaa, WS:n pitäisi olla paremmin mukana suunnitteluvaiheessa, jotta kaikki toimisi kisapaikalla myös rannalla • Perintö oli hyvä - mitä tapahtui vedenlaadulle: yleisesti voi sanoa, etteivät vedenlaatu ja kelluvat roinat vaikuttaneet kilpailuun. Se, mikä on vielä osittain epäselvää, mutta näyttää huonolta on muutoksen pysyvyys • Mikä on prosessi välineiden vaihtamiseeen rikkoutumistapauksissa, pitää jatkossa miettiä (omat vs. Provided) • Katsomo: ei parhaimmalla paikalla, ei palkintojenjakoa oli huono juttu • OBS: televisiointia ei saanut ulkoradoilla ollenkaan - pitäisi saada jotain kuvaa, vaikka livekisaa ei voisikaan näyttää. Reagoinnin pitää olla myös nopeampaa ja toiminnan joustavampaa. Paljon on kiinni myös kansallisista oikeudenomistajista eli siitä, että saadaan hyvät selostajat. Ulkoradoiltakin kuvausta oli, mutta kukaan ei ole nähnyt sitä - pitäisi olla somekanavissa esim. Päivän kohokohdat. WS:n pitää tehdä parempaa yhteistyötä OBS:n kanssa (esim. Lähäreitä enemmän ja

11 myös pilkahduksia muilta rata-alueilta yms.), jotta lajista saadaan välitettyä parempi kuva • Some on yli tuplaantunut seuraamiskanavana myös purhehduksessa • MNA:lle lähetetään kysely, jossa kysytään kaikki asiat kisoihin liittyen • Mediaraportti tulee myöhemmin (tammikuussa)- (ei ole pelkästään purjehdukseen liittyvä raportti)

Aarhus MM-kisat 2018

• karsintasysteemi päätettiin jo viime keväänä - julkistetaan ensi viikolla, pääosa paikoista 2017 MM-kisoista, loput 2017 joulukuun World Rankingista • Kaikki osapuolet haluavat, että kaikki paikat täytetään mahdollisimman hyvin, mutta pitää löytää tapa, jolla tämä tehdään - nyt on niin, että toukokuun jälkeen menee ilmoittautumisjärjestyksessä (ja periaatteessa jo nyt voi ilmoittautua) (Tähän liittyen oli submission) • Paikkoja on reilusti itse kisaan, testikisaan 50 paikkaa/luokka • Medal Racet yleisön edessä, koko satama tarkoitus olla auki yleisölle • Tavoite tehdä todellinen yleisötapahtuma, mukana myös kaupunki • Pian tulee lisää tietoa urheilijoille ja liitoille koko kisoista käytännönjärjestelyistä • Kahdeksan rata-aluetta • Kisoissa jaetaan 40% Tokion maapaikoista

Tokio 2020

• Aamulla tuli tiedote presidentiltä (kirje alla), jossa ehdotetaan säilytettäväksi nykyiset luokat, mutta muutetaan kiintiöitä niin, että jo 2020 saavutetaan sukupuolien tasa-arvo koko lajin tasolla, mutta vasta 2024 jokaisen luokan tasolla • Ainoastaan presidentti voi ehdottaa ensi helmikuussa jotain muuta ja siksi kirje on tuossa muodossa (presidentti vaihtui kirjeen kirjoittamisen jälkeen) • Port of Shonan on Enoshima island, Fujisawa City noin 70km Tokiosta • Satama rakennettiin 1964 ja sitä remontoidaan, mutta sen vieressä on toinen satama, joka on käytössä • Suositukset IOC:lle helmikuuhun 28. 2017 luokista ja ohjelmasta, IOC päättää ohjelmasta Exacutive boardissa 2017 heinäkuussa • Format WP tekee ehdotuksen kisamuodoiksi jne. Työ jatkuu kokouksen jälkeen lähettämällä kaikki kommentit ja ehdotukset Thomas Chameralle, joka tekee ehdotuksia luokkaliitoille testattavaksi (katso ehdotuspaperi) SEURAAVAN KAHDEN VIIKON AIKANA • Kaikki päätökset maapaikoista yms tehdään vasta, kun luokat ovat selvillä • Katso kaikki paperit, ja täydennä tätä myöhemmin

12 From: "World Sailing President" Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:59 PM +0100 Subject: Communication from the President of World Sailing

9th November 2016

The President, , with the support of all Board members, has decided, following his most recent communications with the IOC, that he, as President, shall not propose an alternative Olympic slate to Council in February 2017. This means that World Sailing would propose the existing 10 Events and Equipment for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sailing Competition.

In addition, World Sailing will continue to pursue the possibility of an 11th Medal in 2020 with the IOC on the basis that the total number of athletes remains at 380. Furthermore, World Sailing is also exploring the possibility of a showcase sailing event in Tokyo which if agreed would be over and above the existing athlete quota. The Board believes this strategy best protects existing investments and programmes, whilst enabling World Sailing to demonstrate innovation to the IOC.

The Board will continue to support changes in format and fleet sizes to best meet the objectives of the IOC’s Agenda 2020. These decisions will be made in accordance with normal World Sailing processes.

Regarding gender equity, the IOC has confirmed that gender equity in 2020 may be assessed at a “sport level” (i.e. on the basis of total number of athletes in each sport). Hence World Sailing can meet IOC’s gender equity requirements in 2020 with appropriate fleet quota changes, within sailing’s current 10 Events and can seek to achieve gender equity at an event level by 2024.

(Kirje tuntui olevan pitkälti vaalitaktiikkaa, mutta uusi puheenjohtaja ei suunnittele vaihtavansa luokkia - päin vastoin pyrkii vaikuttamaan IOC:n niin, että luokat säilyisivät samoina)

Olympialaiset 2024

• paikkavaihtoehdot: Budapest (Lake Balaton), Los Angeles, Pariisi (Marseille) • Budapest on kevyen tuulen paikka, kisat kauempana • LA on täysin uusi keskus rakenteilla • Marseille taas kauempana, mutta voidaan hyödyntää olemassa olevia resursseja • WS toimii kaikkien kanssa ennen kuin päätetään, missä kisat on • Syyskuu 2017 KOK päättää, missä kisat pidetään.

13 Sailing • Syyskuussa 2016 on hyväksytty suunnitelma, miten uudistukset laitetaan voimaan • Edelleen ollaan samaa mieltä siitä, että tarvitaan ''ammattilaisten sarja'', joka saa mukaan kaikki parhaat urheilijat • Kalenteri pitää huomioida, maksimissaan kolme osakilpailua, pitää saada kaikki mukaan (siis parhaat purjehtijat) • Palkintorahaa vain finaalissa, pitää mahdollistaa niin purjehtijoiden kuin MNA:n sponsorit • VISIO ja tavoitteet: o Missä ollaan nyt 2017 (tämä vuosi on TAAS) siirtymävuosi: o 2017 tammikuussa Miami, huhtikuussa Hyeres, kesäkuussa finaali Euroopassa (missä) Kiel? o 2018 Gamagori (lokakuu 2017), tammikuu Miami, huhtikuu Hyeres, Euroopassa finaali (kesäkuu 2018) o 2019: Enoshima 2018 lokakuu, Euroopan kierros huhti/toukokuu, finaali Euroopassa kesäkuussa 2019 o 2020: Enoshima lokakuu 2019, miami tammikuu, Eurooppa huhti/toukokuu, Finaali Enoshimassa kesäkuussa • Pitää olla mahdollisuus karsia myös kisoista (esim. Palmalta) eikä vain World Rankingin perusteella • Finaaliin pääsee vain WC:n kisojen perusteella • Maanosilla tulisi olla kisoja, jotka ovat täysin avoimia (voivat toimia karsintoina WC:n) • Subm. 039-16 (loukkaantumistapauksessa saa purjehtia toisenmaalaisen kanssa) suositeltiin hyväksyttäväksi • Keskustelu World Cupista oli hyvin kriittistä - ollaan aina tilanteessa, jossa sopimukset on solmittu ja sitouduttu johonkin malliin ilman, että Events Committeella on mahdollisuus vaikuttaa. Turhauttava keskustelu.

Youth Olympic Games

• Epäselvää, tuleeko tapahtumaan enää tulevaisuudessa • Aikaisintaan 2023 seuraavan kerran • 2018 Buenos Airesissa, luokat on valittu jo aiemmin • Karsintajärjestelmä lähtee käyntiin ensi vuonna (2017 MM-kisat) • Ikäryhmä 15-18 -vuotiaat • Tulee erilaisia kisamuotoja (slalom) • Kite: saa tuoda oman laudan, mutta rajoituksia siinä, millaisen • Nacra tulee järjestäjiltä - karsintoihin standardivene, mutta itse kisoihin ''flying 15'' eli puoliväli täysin foilaavasta ja normaaliveneestä • 1.12.2016 mennessä julkaistaan karsintajärjestelmä

14 Youth World Championship

• 2016 NZ, Auckland • 2017 Akko, Israel • 2018 Sorpus Christi, USA

11. World Championships

• Keskustelua siitä, miten MM-kisoja pitäisi jatkossa järjestää (kuinka usein ja kenen ja miten) • Working Party ei päässyt yhteisymmärrykseen, joten ehdotus on, että uusi Events Committee ottaa asian työn alle heti • Tarvitaan numeroita, joiden pohjalta tehdään päätöksiä

Muista submissioneista mainitsen yhden: - Ehdotettiin valmentajien kumiveneiden kieltämistä MM-kisoista kustannussyistä. Mielipide jakautui kahtia. Valmentajien komitea valmistelee uutta ehdotusta seuraavaan kokoukseen.

Yhteenveto: suurin taustakeskustelu liittyi olympialuokkiin ja uuteen presidenttiin. Nyt, kun valinta on selvä, voi luottaa ainakin siihen, että hän tekee töitä nykyisten luokkien säilyttämisen puolesta. Ensi toukokuun kokouksessa tilanne on selvillä ja silloin päätetään luokkakohtaisista kiintiöistä ja valmistellaan myös formaatteja. Nyt formaateista keskusteltiin, mutta todettiin, ettei voida päättää ennen kuin luokat selvillä. Osa ehdotuksista on melko radikaaleja ja tästä kysyin maajoukkuepurjehtijoidenkin mielipidettä - lähetin niitä eteenpäin valmistelevalle Thomas Chameralle.

15 D. Patrick Lindqvist

International Regulations: • Sustainability: kan vara en fråga som blir större än den verkar. Sporten kan bli överkörd av detaljerna. Man borde definiera vad är sustainability är och vad den betyder för oss. Tex. Om en klass skall få status som olympisk: • Barlast problem: för båtar med barlast tankar. I europa har man definierat vissa arter som är farliga och skall förhindra deras spridning, För båtar skulle en bra bottenfärg lösa problemet men den kan vara förbjuden pga bio orsaker. Tvätta bottnet förre man startar • I fall man stöter på flyktingar till sjöss är rekommendationen att rapportera och övervaka men inte agera. För egen säkerheters skull. Regel verket säger att man skall hjälp om man kan göra det utan onödig risk för egen båt och besättning. • Galileo kommer att bli en del av positionering systemen för säkerhet GMDSS. • Pirater: under de senast 2 åren har det inte skett några attacker. Nyligen har det skett en. Gäller närmast skepp båtar kan kan fortfarande vara under stor risk närmast rån eller kidnappning. Segla inte inte nära i farliga områden. • Nuförtiden finns det en standard för LED ljus via att man bara standardisera ljuset styrka • Windfarm fortfarande olika regler i olika länder inom europa • Hur sjöräddning kan definieras ge alarm via elektronik näst steg hitta ljus/rök Alltså skulle man inte behöver 30000 candela raketer.. • AIS är fortfarande via VHF. AIS live går via privata mänskor som har mottager kopplade till internet.

16 Special Regulations When there is a accident world Sailing have the right to demand that information why the accident happen will be known and hidden by contract between the insurance and 3 party. Question: Should MNA demand that race organisers shall report statical the reason for the boats that cancel racing due to equipment reason. That would help to develop safety. Will come on the web files for checklist according to boat and class Update so anchors and chain can be stowed (or even disabled) separated. Ready to be deployed in 5 min. Tether: For each crew member MoMu,0,1,2,3 a) is not more than 2m (6’ 6”) in length b) includes a mid-point snap hook. Effective 1 Jan 2018.

Offshore and Oceanic . Report on the development of UMS . In/build validation of keel attachments. There has been study done by David Lyons and financed by ORC, AUS, Rorc. How shall validation by done for different boats . Report on handicap rules . ORC see separate page . IRC: A new interface for boat owners a bit like sailor service. 49 countries. Fast 40+ 18 boats next year. HP 30 is future. 6500 boats, . Submission 45: . In favour better chance for co-operation between RORC and ORC more world championships is good. . Against World sailing should not be involved in protests Transparency Same boat should not be able to win two championships in a year. . Compromise: 2018 a jointly scored World Championship 2018 a Team worlds in the same regatta offshore World Championship based on existing offshore event

To Do • Tether update submission for year 5.02.01 e

17 Offshore Classes event Committee

Rapport om tävlingar • VM Köpenhamn två av 3 klasser delades upp I 2 grupper pga deltagare antal. 7-8 deltävlingar beroende på klass. Det fanns också ett pris för bästa amatör besättning. 131 båtar från 14 länder Jury hade mycket att gör men inget större. Kontroll mätningar gjordes och vissa fel hittades Ett problem var lätta vindar. Vilket lede till att det blev olika mängder tävlingar för klasserna. • EM Grekland 9 tävlingar trots att reglerna bara föreskriver 7. 2 klasser slogs ihop pga lite deltagare i största klassen 73 båtar från 12 länder. • ORC Sportboat European Championship Hölls i Chioggia, Italy och hade 40 deltagare från 6 länder.

• ORC Super yacht Regel varit I kraft 2 år 9 regattor. medellängden på båtarna 36 m. Utmaningen är att båtarna är olika från båtar med flygel och blommor ombord till falt out tävlingsbåtar. 150 certifikat 2016 Swan Cup Första året hade utmaningar närmast pga att båtarna kanske inte var mera i den design konfigurationen som den byggdes. Nu börjar databasen för båtarna vara i skick. 85 seglade under ORC och ca 30 utanför.

Submissions . För säsongen 2018 kommer det att introduceras ett pris för bästa designer . Under 2017 kommer reglerna att skapas.

AGM • 48 congress • Thomas Blixt new member for Sweden • 9400 boats and over 10.000 certificates • Rules used in over 45 countries. 5 continents ,USA is growing fast. • Starting a retirement fond for personal • X-yachts will start to use ORC handicap. • UMS is moving slowly forward a part of the reason is personal changes in the key partners in the UMS project.

18 2017 Championships . Worlds: Trieste Italy 30/6-7/7 www.orcworlds2017.com . European: Gdansk 24-29/7 . Sportboats European Latvia 31/7-5/8

2018 Championships • Worlds Hague (Holland) • European • Sportboats European

Future • 2019 ◦ World: US / porto caras / ◦ swe / • 2020 ◦ World nor/est ◦ Euro:

19 E. Lars Nyqvist

2016 World Sailing Annual Conference Lars Nyqvist program

Saturday 5 November 2016 09.30 – 13-30 International Regulations Commission Europa 4 Open 14.30 – Class Rules Sub Committee Europa 4 Open

Sunday 6 November 2016 09.00 – 13.30 International Judges Sub Committee Private Palma Open 14.00 – 19.00 Race Management Sub Committee Europa 3 Open

Monday 7 November 2016 09.30 – 13.30 Committee Fira 2 Open 14.00 – 18.30 International Umpires Sub Committee Fira 1 Open

Tuesday 8 November 2016 09.30 – 18.00 Race Officials Committee Europa 2 Open 09.30 – 18.00 Special Regulations Sub Committee Europa 4 Open

Wednesday 9 November 2016 09.30 – 18.00 Racing Rules Committee Fira 1,2 + 3 Open

Thursday 10 November 2016 09.30 – 18.00 Oceanic and Offshore Committee Europa 3 Open

International Judges Sub Committee

Judges applications and renewals

First time applications 17 pcs 4yr renewals 61 pcs 2yr renewals 27 pcs

Renewal test Steve: Most people pass the test, result are going up. In the future the applicant will get a hard copy of the test result.

New questions for the test are welcome Test English to be improved, questions are compared yearly Gonzalo proposed speedy process to develop the reporting system for collecting data automatically IJ-manual Remove 69 and hear say points from the manual

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David Brunskill presentation Judges Grouping system (Jan Stage, Lynne) Not all high-level judges applied for grouping, not willing to participate Olympic type races Grouping 2016 is only one year, to be renewed yearly Publishing the result of Grouping, a delicate issue • Lengthy discussion, reference to failed U-grouping Retention Numbers going slowly down, Andrus expressed his concern Seminar & Clinic program Medal Racing • Heated debate should it be umpires or judges • What is the required skill set • Direct judging on water/ training required Team Racing Event Appointment Margriet Pannevis Strategy and Development Racing Officials Committee Submissions CLOSED SESSION

Racing Rules 9.11.2016 Submissions: COI submission, balance the coi was discussed at lenght

10.11.2016 Oceanic& Offshore Rating Systems *UMS data bases moving to clouds * Empirical handicap Incidents in the sport 15, one fatal • foiling boats/ organiser boats • Incidence Reporting scheme, like in aviation o Sten Edholm; Guidelines for incident reports o Incidents outside the race o RRS covering incidents outside/ after the race o Incidents when returning from an event Structural integrity • catastrophic loss of keels IRC WC In Sanya it was agreed that the ORC/IRC should be incorporated. Proposal to have IRC WC is against the aim to find a way to have only one rating system One rating, one world

21 F. Michael Röllich

International Judges Sub-Committee

Sunday 6 November 2016, 9.00 – 11.30

3. IJ Grouping

Jan Stage, Lynn Beale

Decision November 2015 grouping system for International Judges. Objective to identify IJs World Sailing can appoint to major WS events and Olympic classes Grouping of International Judges into: • Chief Judge: capability and experience to act as jury chairman • Lead Judge: capability and experience to act as senior member of the jury. Among this group potential Chief Judges • Standard: Ungrouped, among this group potential Lead Judges Annual refresh of status There are Grouping Criteria for International Judges 2016 The grouping is done by a panel consisting of 5 members.

Race Officials Committee wants to publish the status. The idea is to help Event Appointments Working Party. The process must be very clear. When published it is important to include: Purpose/ Criteria/ Appointments

4. IJ Renewal Test

Stephen Wrigley, Riccardo Antoni, Gonzalo Heredia.

• Started in 2014. Experience from 2015 and 2016. • The test has been taken by 224 Judges so far o Did not pass 6 o High rate passed o Test scores moving higher each year. o People are better prepared and use the practice questions at the beginning. o New questions are coming after New Year. • Platform will be modified to be able to provide the test score immediately. There will also be the possibility to print a paper version of it to post it to the MNA. • Good evolvement to keep up with the new rules. • Everybody is encouraged to send questions to the database to be included. • System is continually developing.

22 • Feedback to the judge is very important. o Now the system is not giving feedback on what questions you fail. o The next development will be to include feedback in what sections the judge fails. o Now the system gives the result you passed or you did not pass. o Judges want to have the score included. o A downloadable certificate will be provided. • Would it be possible to take the test already within the last 3 years, because the rules change every 4 years? • Questions about failing: o Question and how many failed. o Follow up during 4 years. Then everybody has renewed. o Can be either a difficult question or it can have been poorly written. • Some complains of delays in the system

5. IJ Report System

Lars Nyqvist, Costas Tsantilis

Summary and highlights of reports presented by Lars Nyqvist To develop IJ report presentation by Matias Collins • Collect all data in the same place that manages everything. • Then we have a transparent system that shows the performance of the race officials. • Renewal rate is 100 judges a year. o Working party gets this done in one weeks time o World Sailing has already all regattas numbered

6. IJ Manual

Jon Napier

Request that two sections be withdrawn • Rule 69 • K13 section of hearsay Rule 69 • In Miami, in a situation covering a 69 hearing, involving evidence that has been obtained illegally => US no go. UK why not. • IJSC => discusses and decides.

David Working party offshore and oceanic racing presentation – Lars Nyqvist has got this presentation • Focus areas: Rules, IJ Manual, Education and Training

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7. IJ Retention

2016 • 125 renewal (approximately 100 renews each year • 4 year appointment 62 • 2 year appointment 29 • 35 total lost • 17 new

8. Rule 42 working party

New leadership Jacob Mossin Andersen.

9. Education and development

International Judges

Seminars Tokyo, JPN – July 2016 London, GBR – October 2016

Clinics Boryeong KOR - March 2016 Singapore SIN - July 2016

IJ and NJ Instructor list has been approved

10. Use of technology

Video hearings Skype juries in offshore racing. • You do not see body language for rule 2 and rule 69 • Can take up to 1 hour to get connected. • Hearing quite with the camera • Three parties hearing. More or less ok. • Need good cameras, different angels and good Internet lines. • Takes time to create a new session in the closed discussion.

Some boats use drones in offshore races. They send them out to supervise weather issues.

Stop calling it Skype meeting because there has not been any decision yet on technology. In US they are called Video hearings. Should create guidelines.

24 In some events it’s getting more popular that one guy is on site and the rest at home. Validity => is a IJ jury properly constituted this way? In some events it can even go so far that the IJs are on video and the NJs on the water doing 42. Is this what we want?

Coaches Commission request that judges would carry cameras when penalizing for breaking rule 42, Jan Stage presenting Video footage is useful for mark rounding’s and in starts. Rule 42 needs a good lens and zoom to be properly used.

Cameras • Standardize the cameras and lenses. • The placement on the body should be decided. • Very useful, when anticipate crowdy mark rounding. • A standard phone can be used. • Some sailors think that, when you use cameras you look like a tourist. • 180€ sunglasses with camera. If you use a camera are the sailors allowed to see it? • It was determined that It is a personal tool. • Who will pay the costs for cameras? The organizers. • Every sailing boat could carry a camera in the mast

11. Medal Racing

Andrus Poksi

Equipment is very critical to do a proper job on the water. The umpire boats are critical and often the worst ribs serve as umpire boats. World Sailing should create some guidance to organizers about the boats.

Why not introduce single judging? RC44 and TP52 use it. It reduces cost. Why not use jet skis?

Why are judges not suitable to run medal races? Should we always use umpires instead? • Judge = fleet • Umpire = match racing In some events judges are not involved in umpiring and umpires are coming in instead. There are also many judges who are also umpires and vice versa.

What can we do to make sure that judges are trained properly? The disciplines for a Judge are hearings and rule 42 Nowadays judges need training about positioning and on the water techniques. We should start to train us.

25 Many disciplines of umpiring • Medal racing • Sailing league • Team racing • 2 k team racing • Match racing • Fleet race

Everything is a little bit different

There will be an umpired fleet racing clinic

The IJSC should work together with the IUSC. Roll out fleet racing umpiring

12. Case 78

Team Racing Situations including Rule 2

To discuss and propose guidance for protest committees to on-the-water jury members who see what they believe to be ‘Team Racing’ in a fleet race

13. Event Appointments

Margriet Pannevis

Four years ago it was much more unclear for the Event Appointments Working Party what to look for and so on. Now it is much more clear. People do not really understand the process. The process: • Proper sub committees are recommending race officials and Events Appointment WP appointments. Now the process is clear The set-up of the Working Party is 4. There is one staff member and a Vice President + 2 people (Margriet Pannevis and Peter Schrubb) this works well.

26 14. Strategy and Development

Feedback from IJ instructors and from IJs about NJs. There are some grants to support travelling. The proper way is to: • Identify IJ material and share it with the committee.

Training and development party, Rob Holden South Africa.

Regional Development Coordinators. Race Official Training. . Identification and development of new Race Officials . Talent identification and development of Race Officials for major events . Development of relationships with World Sailing classes . Proposals for continuous training programs for existing Race Officials . Language issues for Race Officials

Submissions – if you are appointed to a World Sailing event. You should get paid. Working party from last year has proposed a submission for this.

Reopening and video evidence The acid test is: • Is the video new evidence or was it available before the original hearing? • If it is new, is it also significant?

Reopening according to the IJ manual should concentrate only on the new evidence. Lawyers say that should allow much more.

27 Race Management Sub-Committee

Sunday 6 November 2016

4. Strategy, Development, Tasks and Responsibilities

Innovations and technologies Automated starting and finishing procedure

Seminars and clinics 6 Clinics and 8 Seminars during 2016

5. Race Management Procedures and Activities

Race management policy Will be updated and issued by beginning of January 2017

7. Event Appointments

Margriet Pannevis

Statistics about appointments Done a four years report Misunderstanding that EAWP appoint and assess. The sub-committees assess and suggest. The EAWP appoints.

8. Race Officials Committee

Jan Stage

Some countries good programs to develop people, some struggle more => world sailing could do more to spread good practices

Grouping of race officials when World Sailing appoints to major World Sailing events and Olympics. • Good if it would be possible to get a report and input from the sub committees to the race officials committee o Idea is to help EAWP to appoint suitable race officials • Judges are grouped in Chief & Lead Judges o 380 IJs in total o 111 applied for grouping o Outcome was § 6 Chiefs § 22 Lead

28 • Qualification criteria for Judges: Standard/ Lead/ Chief • Qualification criteria for Race Officers: Standard/ Course Rep/ PRO

Feedback: • Judges and Race Officers are a little bit different. You need more Judges at least 5 to an event than Race Officers you have normally one IRO. At least there are less race officers than judges. • Who decides the grouping? o A panel of 5 people and Madeline Dunn as staff member: Lynne Beale (chair), Andres Perez, Steve Wrigley, Rut … • There has always been a list or an idea, now the process and appointments are formal and criteria’s transparent • How often is the list reviewed? o Annually!

Try to go to coaches’ commission to bridge the gap between coaches and race officers

They asked for two things • Request that cameras be used by race officials and the material be published to everybody • Race Management policies: o Has been very different what the race officers are doing. o Now it has been harmonized by introducing Race Management policies. o The coaches have asked that could there be some discretion about a strict policy and discussion afterwards about the outcome and learning. § Example: Sometimes a race has been done strictly by policies even if everybody knows and agrees that the race should be abandoned.

Recommendations • Race Officer development for Tokyo 2020 • Race documents reviewed by committees • Strategy for race management finishing and starting

29 Match Racing Committee

Monday 7 November 2016, 9.30 – 13.30

3. Women Match Racing World Championship 2016

WS Technical Delegate Report – Alfredo Ricci (ITA) 2016 Women’s Match Racing World Championship

September 21st-25th 2016 - Sheboygan, Wisconsin (USA)

The event was organised in conjunction with Blind Match Racing World Championship. Unfortunately on Tuesday 20 September Terry Kohler also father of project “Women Match Racing” passed away (see the other document enclosed). Terry was our biggest supporter and this tragedy hit the organisers, the sailing community and most of us that had the opportunity to know him strongly.

As he would have said the show must go on and so it did, even with a little bit of worry after the first two days.

9 teams took part in the event representing 6 nations (USA, FRA, SWE, NED, NZL, and CAN). The organization from Sheboygan Yacht Club in conjunction with Sail Sheboygan and Seas Ashore on and off the water was impeccable

8 perfectly prepared were used for the event by Bosun Nick Chadwick with all the spare materials available. The fleet, which was also used in Perth 2011 and at the 2012 London Olympic Games, had two sets of sails with country logos. This made it easy to identify the competitors during the knock out series, where thousands of spectators gathered from the Blue Resort Beer Festival on the leeward of the course area.

Umpire boats, the race committee boat and mark layers all performed in line with World Sailing standards. The Race committee was led by John Strassman (USA) accompanied by Darcy Cook (USA) an experienced match racing race officer. In addition the local race officer David Bronson (USA) added an enormous value to the team by taking care of setting the course with his mark layers under the supervision of Principal Race Officer Rich Reichelsdorfer (USA) who focused more on Blind World Championship. A very efficient and precise media department produced dedicated press releases supported by pictures and videos and a large activity on Social Media (Facebook, Twitter) The passion and professionalism ashore and on the water of Elizabeth Baylis in her double role of WIM Series Manager and World Sailing

30 Match Racing Committee Chairman completed the team.

Due to bad weather we lost the first two days racing, this didn’t compromise completion of the scheduled programme (Double Round Robin, Quarterfinals, Semi-finals and Finals).103 races were sailed, and as testimony to the wonderful job done by the race committee (alongside the well prepared boat), not a single red flag was displayed by the competitors.

The Umpire team led by Flavio Naveira (ARG) did a good job with the test rules with Women’s Match Racing events as one of the only chances for a rookie umpires to develop.

Female Match Racers really love the debriefing, they like to discuss cases and for a fresh umpire it is a unique opportunity. Where applicable, the appointment process which selects an umpire team should strongly consider a very proactive Chief Umpire that promotes this ethos when managing a women’s match racing event (we say... ‘he does not look at the clock’).

Salerno, October 7th 2016 – Alfredo Ricci

4. Youth Match Racing Worlds

2016 Youth Match Racing World Championship

A final report from the World Sailing Technical Delegate

1. Introduction

1.1 The third Youth Match Racing World Championship was held in Noumea, New Caledonia, FRA between 14 and 18 June 2016. The event is now in its third edition, with previous events being held in FIN and POL and the 2017 event due to be held in the West Coast USA.

1.2 The policy direction for the event is overseen by the Match Racing Committee and its Youth Match Racing Working Party.

2. Teams

2.1 The age limit for the event is to be under 23 years old on the 31 December of the year of competition.

2.2 The capacity of the event for 2016 was set at 16 teams. Two places were offered to the Host MNA (the FFV and the local FFV league) and the remaining places were available to MNAs to ask for. If after the entry deadline places remained, World Sailing would consider wildcard spaces.

31 2.3 By the entry deadline, the event had 5 MNAs registering an interest with 9 teams. This raised very real questions concerning the viability of the event, as the Host was expecting up 16 teams. A further push was made for entries via the Working Party and two more entries were received. This allowed the event to proceed but one team then withdrew. The final number was 10 teams from 6 MNAs.

2.4 A number of MNAs expressed concern at the cost of travelling to New Caledonia, with one MNA saying it preferred to concentrate its funding on the FISU World Match Racing event in Perth (AUS) later this year.

3. Officials

3.1 World Sailing appointed the World Sailing Course Representative (Denis THOMPSON IRO (AUS)), the Chief Umpire (Gary MANUEL IU (AUS), three other International Umpires and two national umpires. After the award of the bid to the event, the Host raised concerns that having more umpires (as envisaged by the bid guidelines) was outside their budget. A request was also made to have only three nationalities of umpires (FRA, AUS and NZL) which was rejected. In the event, the lower number of entries meant the event could cope with the lower number of umpires.

3.2 All the World Sailing race officials performed well and at the standard expected of them.

4. Venue

4.1 Following the site visit to the venue in 2015 (the main club on the mainland with racing in the harbour), the Host relocated the event to a small island approximately 30 mins sail from the mainland on which a sponsor hotel was located. The new venue was ideal for sailing conditions and scenery, but presented very limited public access to the racing.

5. Equipment

5.1 The boat used for the Championships was Elliott 6m sailed with a crew of 3 or 4. 10 boats were planned for the event and the decision was made to use 8 boats.

5.2 The number of breakdown flags and breakdowns was average for a match racing event and there was a good support service on the water. There was no major damage to any of the boats during the Championship. All boats were very well prepared and equalised.

Documentation All documentation used at the event complied with World Sailing standards.

Course and Format

7.1 Racing was held off Ilôt Máitre island where the Championship had been relocated to. Trade wind conditions persisted through the week and were

32 excellent for racing. The World Sailing Race Management Policies for Match Racing were followed consistently and racing was postponed and/or abandoned when required.

7.2 The format of racing was a double qualifying Round Robin, followed by knockout Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals. All racing was completed on schedule, with the Round Robin concluded by Day 3.

7.3 The format used worked well for the lower number of teams.

8. Coaches and Education

8.1 Evening debriefs were offered but had no take up. Three teams had coaches. Consideration should be given to whether the World Youth Sailing Trust wishes to support an education program around the event.

9. Social

9.1 Breakfast, lunch and dinner was provided, along with accommodation, as part of the entry fee. Due the location of the event on the island of Ilôt Máitre, teams socialised in the evening at the hotel.

9.2 The prizegiving dinner was held on the mainland at the CNC. Although a success, the level of alcohol available to the teams prior to the dinner being served presented disappointing behaviour from some of them. One team was warned their behaviour may lead to their prize being withheld under the provisions of the SIs.

10. Ceremonies

10.1 The Opening Ceremony was held on the island of Ilôt Máitre and featured interviews with the local teams and an opening speech by the World Sailing Technical Delegate. The Closing Ceremony was held on the mainland at the CNC and Adrienne Greenwood spoke on behalf of World Sailing.

11. Results 1) Will DARGAVILLE (AUS) 2) Harry PRICE (AUS) 3) Robin Follin (FRA) 4) Cyril FORTIN(FRA) 5) Ryo TAKAHASHI (JPN) 6) Matthew HUGHES (NZL) 7) Oakley MARSH (NZL) 8) Christophe KILLIAN (USA) 9) Charles LALUMIERE (USA) 10) Lars-Peter ROSENDAHL (DEN)

12. Summary & Recommendations

12.1 Withrespecttotheracing,theChampionshipwasagreatsuccessandtheHost sdelivered the event in an excellent manner.

12.2 The level of entries this year was a real concern, noting the location was outside of Europe. Given the location of the event next year on the West Coast of the USA, consideration should be given how to maximise the number of entries in order to match the high interest in the first and second editions of the event.

33 12.3 Despite emphasising the number of race officials required to deliver the event at World Championship level at bid stage, there remains an unfortunate trend of Hosts putting up severe pressure to resist the appointment of officials who would incur a high travel cost. Future hosts should demonstrate at bid stage how they will fund the cost so it cannot be used as an excuse later on in the planning stages. Jon Napier ITD (GBR) World Sailing Technical Delegate 3 August 2016

5. 2017 Women’s Match Racing World Championship, Helsinki Finland • 16th-21st of June 2017 - OK • Venue Hernesaaren Ranta - OK • Wimseries G1 where arranged at the exact same location o Feedback from this event will guide the arrangements for 2017 • To be appointed by World Sailing o Technical Delgate: Flavio Naveira, Argentina - OK o Principal Race Officer: Christophe Gaumont, or Madis Ausman, Estonia, Lars Nyqvist and Timo Mustakallio as Finnish local race officer o Chief Umpire: Alan Baser, Great Britain or Tina Örtendahl, Sweden or Doug Sloan, USA – TBD by WS o Umpire team – TBD by WS • Boats to be used are 6 J80s 1 spare • There is an option to borrow FarEast 28s from Sweden at the cost of logistics (which could maybe sponsorised by Silja or Viking) o 6 new are available o 10 one year olds are available o More info Mats Runström [email protected]

6. 2016 Youth New Caledonia Noumea • The Venue was at an nearby island • Entry fee included everything but the transport to New Caledonia • There was a clash with University Match Racing in Australia • Ten teams competed of which four (4) had a double (2) entry o FRA x 2 o NZL x 2 o USA x 2 o AUS x 2 o JPN x 1 o DEN x 1 • Winner Will Dargawille AUS

34 7. 2018 bidding process • The bidding documents will be finalized in a couple of weeks. • The members of the match racing committee are advised to spread the word

8. ISAF Nations cup Michael O’Connor

World Sailing NATIONS CUP 2017-18 Report from the Working Party

The World Sailing Nations Cup, which was first introduced to the world in 1991, is based on a series of Regional Finals with the top crews meeting at a Grand Final. The aim of the event is to broaden the availability of match racing and provide international competition for national authorities and sailors at reasonable cost, whilst acting to seed new venues and new skippers and therefore increase participation.

In 1991 (USA) won the first ISAF Nation’s Cup and many great match racers today in the Americas Cup, the and the 2012 Olympics have come up through this event. Examples would be Mathieu Richard (FRA), Bertrand Pace (FRA), (USA), (FRA), Lucy Macgregor (GBR), Peter Holmberg (ISV), Eugeniy Neugodnikov (RUS), (DEN), Murray Jones (NZL), Damien Iehl (FRA), (AUS)

The Grand Final is a World Sailing Grade 1 event and the Regional Finals are Grade 2 events

The Asia Regional Final in 28 knots of wind and 39degC

Our main recommendation is that the World Sailing Nations Cup be continued for the next edition (2017-18) and be reviewed after the Grand Final 2018. This is in the light of:

• The value and potential to build a World Sailing Nations Cup brand and its 25 year history

• The media coverage achieved coupled with the drama and intensity of the Grand Final 2015

• The success and participation of several emerging nations and regions

35 • The uniqueness - about Nations (ie MNAs) and not skippers and is unique in match racing The event underpins the many Clubs and MNA’s that have invested in fleets of keelboats to increase participation. It is a feeder system to identify and train new skippers/teams and umpires for umpired fleet racing and the professional match race circuit (WMRT and AC) including medal race formats for the SWC and the Olympics

2015 Edition

The World Sailing Nations Cup was held in 2015, with the programme of Regional Finals starting in February at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Brisbane, Australia and cumulating with the Grand Final at the Seven Feet Yacht Club, Vladivostok, Russia The winners of the World Sailing Nations Cup 2015 in match racing were Russia (Open Division) represented by Vladimir Lypavskiy and USA (Women’s Division) represented by Nicole Breault

The Grand Final had 14 teams participating (9 teams in the open representing 8 different MNAs and 5 teams in the women’s division representing 5 MNAs). The sailing area close to the shoreline of the City of Vladivostok overlooked the Pacific Ocean in sight of China and North Korea across the bay

In all 37 teams competed in the Regional Finals. Europe had 19 teams participating (13 teams in the open representing 11 different MNAs and 6 teams in the women’s division representing 5 MNAs). Asia had 5 teams participating representing 4 different MNAs. Oceania had had 9 teams participating representing 3 different MNAs. Africa had 4 teams participating representing 2 different MNAs. This was the first event of its type to be held in North Africa and was supported by World Sailing with a match racing Clinic for the sailors, federation members, upcoming race officials and youth.

World Sailing Clinic in action in Bahrain – 25 mixed participants –supported by the IUSC

36 2016 Recommendations

Our recommendation in late 2015 was that the World Sailing Nations Cup slow the event cycle from 2 years to 3 years to allow more time for MNAs and venues to identify local sponsors, run workshops and select and build teams. Also coincides with less activity in the year of the Olympic Competition

Focus on sailor development to build participation in new regions and countries identified by the Working Party, Ambassadors, MRC and sailors

Interest from DEN to host the Grand Final and Middle East and USA locations for Regional Finals

Continue for 2017-18 as follows o 2016 Post congress -launch the Bid Invitation document around the World Sailing brand. Commence sailor and race official workshops by World Sailing Group or MNA. Develop a World sailing bid panel. Issue the NOR in January 2017 o 2017 Begin Regional Finals with a 6 month lead in o 2018 Grand Final with a longer build up • Keep and limit the Regional Final structure to keep the costs down – teams will be less willing to travel between continents. Have a workshop training day before each Regional Final and combine

st with an Umpired Fleet Race 1 round to introduce the teams and umpires to the boats prior to match racing.

. Increase participation by having 2 teams selected per MNA in each division combining scoring for the nation to qualify.

. Lower the risk with the Regional Finals by selecting more proven venues

. Use the Regional Final more as a coaching platform in the round robin phases and have deep debriefs

. Consider webinars for training of those with travel restrictions

37 . Use the role of Working Party/Ambassadors as coaches in these regional workshops

. Streamline the communications with the aim to move the onus more towards the OA for entries

. Expand the scope to support growing Youth Match Racing and the building of skills for the World Sailing Youth World Match Race Championships – have an additional prize for youth teams in the Nations Cup within the existing event structure.

. Identify and develop a synergistic relationship with the World Match Race Tour and WIMRA

. The ISAF Nations Cup BRAND and its trophy and history have value. Examples are the and Ryder Cup now developed in other sports. Consider a Steering Committee to guide the ISAF Nations Cup brand to underpin the creation of a Foundation for Match Racing Development and create a legacy. Working Party to date has been Michael O’Connor IRL Chair USA Flavio Naveira ARG Yana Dobzhitskaya RUS Soren Laugesen DEN Ambassadors – (in no order and agreed with the parties) Working Party members plus Sofia Truchanowicz (POL) Mohammed Azzoug (ALG) Eva Andersson (SWE) Miguel Allen (POR) Alfredo Ricci (ITA) Jeff Borland (USA) Nelson Ilha (BRA) Ian Ainslie (RSA) The role of ‘Ambassador for the ISAF Nations Cup’ would be to help with promoting the event and encouraging teams, MNAs and organizers to step forward particularly in their region and network of trusted contacts. The role is advisory and promotional and from time to time rather than executive. Past locations to host the Regional and Grand Finals have been in recent times:

Grand Final Regional Finals

2006 Cork, Ireland FIN, POR, SLO, GBR, ISV, BRA, UAE, NZL

2009 Porto Alegre, Brazil FRA, NZL, ITA, ARG, USA, IRL, IND

2011 Sheboygan, USA RSA, QAT, AUT, POL, USA, AUS, BRA

38 2013 Middelfart, Denmark BAR, ARG, NED, RUS, POR

2015 Vladivostok, Russia USA, AUS, TUN, IRL, BRN, ARG

Event Video (5 minutes) including an interview with – http://youtu.be/PUkwjtSVL8E ://youtu.be/PUkwjtSVL8E

9. WMRT (World Match Racing Tour) • James, Craig Mitchell, Mattias Dahlström • World Match Racing Tour worked togeather with the MRRSC (Match Racing Rankings Sub Committee Yana Dobshitskaya, Stratis Andreadis, Michael Röllich) and the Advidory Board (Russel Green, Miguel Allen) o The Tour did agree not to eliminate any competitor based on the outcome of the first days of fleet racing.

WORLD MATCH RACING TOUR REPORT 2016 WMRT 2016 SUMMARY • 2015 WMRT Season concluded at the , Malaysia in January • (GAC Pindar) crowned record six-time Match Racing World Champion Ian Williams GBR (centre) and GAC Pindar crew New Far East 28R keelboats used at Monsoon Cup • 2016 WMRT Short Season announced from January-July with five World Championship events and seven World Tour [Qualifier] events • Over USD1.8m prize money awarded across five events

WMRT FREMANTLE, Australia Qualifier Events Warren Jones Regatta, Australia Qualifier South of Perth YC Match Race

WMRT LONG BEACH (), USA Qualifier Ficker Cup, Long Beach CA

WMRT COPENHAGEN, Denmark Qualifier Hamilton Match Race, Bermuda Qualifier Copenhagen Match Race

WMRT NEWPORT RI, USA Qualifier Newport Match Race Qualifier Bermuda Match Race

WMRT Marstrand World Final, Sweden

39 2016 WMRT cont. • Invitations increased from 12 to 20 teams per event (exception Congressional Cup) • Event format increased to 6 days including 2 days fleet and 4 days match racing • Twenty-four M32 multihulls built for WMRT in Newport, Sweden and Perth • Total 41 teams participated in 2016 WMRT from 10 countries • Phil Robertson (NZL) crowned Match Racing World Champion for the first time defeating (ISV) in the finals. • USD1million prize money awarded to the Match Racing World Champion Phil Robertson(NZL (far right) and Waka Racing crew M32’s used at Marstrand for the first time

WMRT 2016 Media Summary • Live and highlights TV distributed by IMG Media to 141 broadcast markets • Over 1,200hrs of broadcast hours including 54hrs Live coverage • WMRT 2017 Plan • Following feedback from media and teams, the 2017 WMRT will return to a calendar year with the last event of 2017 to be the World Final. • The 2017 will comprise 6-8 World Championship events including Australia, China, Sweden and USA. • Each World Championship event will have between 1-3 Qualifier events

• The first event of the season will be in Perth, Australia in March 2017 followed by the Congressional Cup, Long Beach CA. The Congressional Cup and Ficker Cup Qualifier will be sailed in Catalina 37 monohulls • The number of teams will be reduced to 18 however the format will allow up to 21 and 24 teams per event (The Congressional Cup will have 12 teams). • The event format will remain at 6 days with the first two days fleet racing (well received by teams and media in 2016).

WMRT 2017 Tour Card Application • For the 2017 season, 10 Tour Cards will be allocated to • Two [2] finalists from the previous seasons World Final o Top three [3] skippers from the WMRT leaderboard following the previous • Seasons World Final o Two [2] highest ranked skippers on the Open World Match Race rankings o Three [3] wild card skippers selected by WMRT following an application process • No Tour Card fee will be charged to skippers in 2017 • No entry fee to World Championship events and World Final • WMRT Match Racing License For safety and insurance purposes, every sailor competing on an M32 during the WMRT must acquire a match racing license at a cost of USD1,000 per sailor (two day course). Over 200 licenses have been issued to date.

40 10. MRRSC Match Racing Rankings Sub Committee (Yana Dobshitskaya, Michael Röllich, Stratis Andreadis)

During 2016 the MRRSC continues to work with the ISAF Secretariat to review and continuously apply proper and fair grading for events. Only 1 event (see ISAF Match Race Gradings – Secretariat Report) was upgraded/downgraded. There was no “zero points” given this year.

The MRRSC answered questions of some events OAs about possible downgrading/upgrading as well as exceptions to the grading criteria. For example, there was a suggestion by an organizer to select umpires solely from the host nation for a G1. The MRRSC advised that World Sailing shall continue appointing umpires to G1 and WC events to guarantee the service of fair sailing to the competitors and the continuous development of umpiring worldwide. Extra thought was given to a cost effective solution to meet this advice. The MRRSC will continue working on identifying and more clearly showing the benefits of advertising and grading fees to the organisers.

The MRRSC received inquiries and discussed with various parties the possibility to re-establish the Open World Match Race championship in mono- hull keelboats. The submission 013-16 from the DSV is related to it.

The MRRSC advised the WMRT not to eliminate competitors in their match racing event based on the outcome of the first two days of only fleet racing. The MRRSC will review the impact of the multiplier for the WMRT World Championship Qualifiers compared with G1.

The World Sailing Standard Guidelines for the Organisation of Grade WC, 1 and 2 Match Racing Events have been reviewed. There were no changes this year.

The MRRSC will be reviewing the Match Racing Grading Form shortly after the Annual Conference to update it for January 2017 release.

New versions of the Standard Match Racing Notice of Race and Match Racing Sailing Instructions were issued shortly after the 2015 Annual Conference to accommodate changes in the RRS and other relevant changes. The working group is working on revisions to align with changes that will be adopted in the 2017-2020 RRS.

World Sailing Match Racing Gradings – Executive Office Report

1. Overall summary 1.1 The number of graded events for 2016 in the Open and Women’s Division are shown below (along with comparison numbers for 2010 to 2016). 1.2 For Open events, since 2010 the number of graded events has decreased by 24.6% (annual decreases of 5.8%, 5.9%, 10.4% and 4.9%).

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2. Executive Office Changes 2.1 The changes made by the Executive Office on receipt of final results are listed below. As agreed with the Match Race Rankings Sub-committee, the Secretariat is authorised to upgrade or downgrade an event by one level without reference to the MRRSC.

Event Change Reason Governor’s Cup 2016 Upgrade: G3 to G2 Met requirements of Grade 2 postevent

42 11. Race Officials

The Event Appointments Working Party consisting of Margriet Pannevis (chairman), Peter Schrubb, Madeline Dunn (WS) and one WS Vice President are together with the relevant Sub Committee doing all the appointments to WS events.

The relevant Sub Committee assesses and suggest the race officials and the EAWP appoints the race offcials.

Event Appointments Working Party (EAWP)

End of Term Report & Recommendations

Delivered to: World Sailing Board and Race Officials Committee The EAWP is appointed by the Board to appoint or approve Race Official appointments for those events at which World Sailing exercises its right so to do (Regulation 25.8).

The 2013-2016 EAWP comprised Margriet Pannevis NED (chairman), Peter Shrubb BER, Bjorn Anker-Moller DEN, and Chris Atkins GBR (Vice President) with support from World Sailing’s Competitions Manager Jon Napier (until April 2016) and Competitions and Race Officials Executive Maddie Dunn.

Summary The EAWP believes that it performs a valuable function as an independent body that validates that proposed appointments meet (or fail to meet) the policies and requirements of World Sailing. A number of improvements to the process have been introduced in 2013- 2016, and other improvements (e.g. grouping of ROs) are work-in-progress. Some challenges remain, and some WS processes lessen the ability of the EAWP to do its job to the satisfaction of its members. In addition there remains a frustrating misunderstanding of the role of the EAWP. It would help EAWP if there were wider recognition that the EAWP does not: • assess the ability of ROs. RO assessment is the responsibility of ROC and its sub-committees; • identify suitable officials for appointment. The EAWP receives the recommendations of ROC and others, and determines whether recommendations meet the policies and requirements of World Sailing as documented in EAWP procedures.

These various issues are discussed in the following sections.

43 Purpose of EAWP 1. The EAWP suffers in its work from a widespread belief that the EAWP assesses the ability of Race Officials (ROs) and makes appointment decisions based on this assessment. Whereas only the ROC and its sub-committees assess ROs, and they take this into account when they make their event appointment recommendations to EAWP. As stated above, the role of the EAWP could be summarised to be “an independent body that ensures that proposed appointments meet the policies and requirements of World Sailing”. It might help if Regulation 25.8.2 were amended to reflect this.

2. It might also help raise the awareness of the role of EAWP if its membership were published in the year-book, and minutes of its meetings published in the same way that committee minutes are.

Membership

3. The WP believes that the current size of EAWP (three current or former race officials, supported by a VP and the WS Race Officials Manager) is a suitable size.

4. A submission was passed to confirm that active race officials could be members of EAWP, as without experience of current regattas the EAWP could become out-of-touch. The number of appointments received by members of EAWP was low in 2013-2016 (e.g. 1 in 2015 and 3 in 2016), and should remain low. But it is beneficial that at least one EAWP member is active in top level regattas. In all cases, there are conflict of interest procedures in place to prevent a member of the EAWP influencing their own appointment.

5. The same submission also addressed the question of whether all race official disciplines should be “represented” on EAWP, which was not supported as EAWP has no role in assessing ROs. Another submission suggested EAWP should have representatives of each continental federation. This was not supported as Regulation 25.8.3 already requires continental federations to be consulted over who is recommended for appointment to Regional Games.

Procedures

6. An early priority for the current EAWP was to correct the major omission and define, document and publish its procedures. The procedures, attached to this report, confirm the WS policies and requirements that EAWP seeks to enforce, and define who should make nominations to EAWP and who else should be consulted, and how conflicts of interest are handled. These procedures should be kept under review and refined as needs dictate. Any changes should be approved by both the Board and the ROC.

44 7. The policies and requirements currently include: • appoint race officials of suitable ability to events – WS-appointed ROs should add value and leave a legacy; • encourage global consistency of race official decisions – some out-of- continent ROs should normally be appointed; • bring on up-and-coming race officials, especially those from emerging sailing regions, by giving them top event experience; and • ensure there is rotation of race officials, and that all continents receive a fair share of RO appointments, while • not over-burdening an Organizing Authorities with unreasonable costs.

8. The current appointment process is inefficient in one particular respect. EAWP appoints or approves before the availability of the race official has been confirmed, which leads to an unnecessarily high number of changes. A process for WS staff to confirm RO availability before appointment decisions are made, in particular among grouped race officials (once grouping has been introduced), is necessary to remove this challenge. The authority and processes to be followed by WS staff in the event of late replacements being required should also be specified more clearly.

9. Perhaps the procedures could in addition define the meeting schedule for EAWP, including which event appointments are decided at which meetings. This would inform WS, classes and other event organisers of the schedule required for their proposals or recommendations.

10. The improvements identified in 8 and 9 above could then simplify and accelerate the process for publishing WS event appointments.

ROC & Sub-committee Processes

11. The whole RO evaluation and appointment process is seen by many ROs as being too closed and “cliquey”, with authority on recommendations to the EAWP vested in a few committee chairmen or vice-chairmen. EAWP recommended in 2014 that a more transparent grouping system should be introduced by each of the 4 major disciplines to support more open and justifiable appointment decisions. ROC has taken this forward, and is currently trialling a grouping system for Judges (the largest discipline). This trial should be evaluated, and by the end of 2017 a common process for grouping Judges, Umpires, Race Officers and Measurers should be introduced.

12. EAWP is aware that the more experienced ROs get “booked up” earlier. This grouping will allow WS to have a dialogue with grouped ROs to understand their availability before considering recommendations for their appointment to events.

13. EAWP also supports the identification by ROC and its sub-committees of “up-and-coming” ROs, especially ROs from emerging sailing regions, who have the potential to be grouped but require more experience by being appointed to suitable events.

45 World Sailing Calendar

14. The EAWP is most able to ensure its appointment decisions meet the requirements in paragraph 7 if all appointments for a calendar year can be considered in one discussion. The EAWP therefore supports WS’s intention for the event calendar, and in particular World Sailing events, to be decided further in advance. The recent late decisions on and Youth Worlds, and the requirement to find ROs who were available at short notice and at low cost to the Organizing Authorities, meant EAWP had reluctantly to approve appointment recommendations that did not meet these requirements to EAWP’s satisfaction.

Olympic Class Association Processes

15. WS appoints race officials to Olympic Class World Championships (Regulation 25.8.10). The absence of a process for this has on occasion caused friction between WS and a class, and made the scheduling of these EAWP decisions difficult. ROC and EAWP have recently proposed a process for these appointments, including in particular that World Sailing appoints a defined subset of ROs at least 12 months in advance of the event. This would leave the class free to appoint (with WS approval) the remainder of the RO team nearer the date of the event and from ROs it is nurturing. The EAWP recommends this process is implemented in 2017, noting that its full implementation depends on the existence of a grouping system.

Geographic and Regional Considerations

16. EAWP seeks to ensure all regions have their fair share of appointments, and that up-and-coming race officials from emerging regions in particular receive appointments. However most regattas take place in established sailing nations and regions, and organisers understandably resist the extra cost of officials from far away. World Sailing already on occasion assists with the travel costs of a race official from an emerging region. This could be made into a more formal programme – for instance that an emerging region race official is appointed to every World Sailing event.

12. Submissions

013-16 Monohull Match Racing Worlds There was a presentation to the committee made by Eberhard Magg från Match Racing Germany representing MRA (Match Racing Association)

The MRA throuch DSV (Deutsche Segler Verein) would like to introduce a monohull Match Racing World Championship. Since the WMRT has moved to M32 there are many former organisers that have invested in boats, but are not getting the status of a World Championship any more. They would like to continue attracting sailors with the status of a world championship. Due the contractual agreements between World Sailing and World Match Racing Tour the submission was rejected by the Match Racing Committee.

46 The advice was that the Advice Panel (consisting of Russell Green and Miguel Allen) would continue discussing with the World Match Racing Tour if there would be a possibility to introduce a monohull match racing world championship.

094-096-16 New MR Calls where all passed by the committee

13. Reports from Working Groups

Women’s Match Racing (Liz Baylis)

47 Match Racing Rules (Marc Bouet)

Report Match Racing Rules Since 2014 World Sailing meeting when two rule changes were approved (delete moving astern, rule 22.3 and rule 17 when sailing on a downwind leg) a working group including members from racing rules committee and match racing committee was organized with the goal to try to make the MR rules as similar as possible for all events.

As a result, that group was able to propose a package of “Test Rules”. These test rules were used since two years by a large majority of MR events and are now the rules for match racing as all changes are included in the appendix C which will be in force from January 1 2017.

These changes are making the rules more similar, as most of the changes were initiated or by America’s Cup or Match Racing World Tour.

As the WMRT is now sailing catamarans, they initiated others changes as boats and game are different.

My feeling is that we have to continue to try to follow evolution and try to change rules to keep it as similar as possible for all match racing.

I understand that on the other hand, we have to say that it is a potential problem when fleet racing rules and match racing are too different. My opinion is that fleet racing rules have to change also. It is a pity to look at the changes for 2017-2020, is the conflict of interest the only one problem to improve? What about the new “mark room” definition? What about to delete the useless rule 17?

Regarding Standard Match Racing Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions, with Marianne Middelton and Jeff Borland, we are working each year to follow or initiate the changes. A special thank to Marianne for the job she is making in both groups.

Submitted by Marc Bouet, Chair MR Rules Working Group

48 Youth Development & Match Racing Sailor Development (Stratis Andreadis)

Report on the Match Racing Youth Development & Match Racing Sailor Development working parties.

2016 saw new ideas enter into the Match Racing Youth Development & Match Racing Sailor Development working parties.

The addition of Dave Perry, an avid match racer, rules guru, and coach added clear perspective to the Match Racing Youth World preparation that has helped streamline our message to youth match racers and create a solid foundation for one of World Sailing’s newest world championship event that continues to grow with every edition.

Match Racing Sailor Development is growing thanks to more and more clubs around the world using Match Racing to target age groups previously left out of sailing. Of particular note are the programs set up by Liz Baylis for promoting and growing blind match racing, a new and exciting part of our sport.

49 Race Management and Organisation (Marty Kaye, Michael Röllich)

• One new section should be added to the manual o Section 6 – a description of how to run a match racing event on daily basis • New ppt presentation added which visualizes the process of running a match racing event is included in the material • Help to South Africa Philip Baum and Hylton Hale – conference call o Objective to rejuvenate the sport of sailing through iconic events (VOR, IRC, Extreme Series, MR) o Plan to have Nations Cup 2017 or 2018 o Assistance with boat selection, budget, process, steps • Next steps o Jan Stage chairman of the Race Officals Committee has put together a working party to improve the cooperation between MRC, IUSC and RMSC § Thomas Jørgensen (DEN) – Chairman § Peter Shrubb (BER) § Christophe Gaumont (FRA) § Martin Kaye (HKG) – MRC § Michael Röllich (FIN) – MRC was added to the group for the remainder of the term (1.2.2017) o The manual and process description will be reviewed and updated to reflect 2017 forward and launched

14. Annual Report

Will be submitted by Liz Baylis later this month

50 International Umpire Sub-Committee

Monday 7 November 2016, 14.00 – 18.00

3. IJ Grouping See earlier IJSC for judges. Grouping not considered at this moment for International Umpires.

4. IJ Renewal Test Good experience in the IJSC. Will considered to be taken on-line for International Umpires.

5. Medal Racing International Umpires with double license (IJ) are doing a lot of this

6. Fleet Race Umpiring Jan Stage Fleet Race Umpiring becoming more popular. Example Natalia Chubenko (RUS)

Natalia Chubenko Have experience of Fleet Race Umpiring. Organizers would like to have umpires. How to develop Fleet Race Umpires. Sailing League, 3 days, 8 boats, 15 min, 3 umpire teams

Lorenz Walz presentation, Germany and internationally on umpiring in the Sailing League

Denmark and Germany, two umpire boats, 2 divisions, 5 lowest teams move out and 5 new clubs are coming in. IU Fleet Racing Seminar Team Racing IU Recommend to ROC have 3.2 removed and run IU Fleet Racing Seminar in early 2017 with test. 60% Match Racing Test is Fleet Racing Test

It was suggested, if you use the logic of Match Racing. G1 – Porto Cervo, final G2 – St Petersburg, regional final G3 – Series with a final = sailing league

Also reference form for Team Racing.

51 7. Safety within Umpiring With direct umpiring of fast cat classes, put guidelines into the manual. WMRT Academy, hold a match racing license includes safety training. Lead Umpires are always driving the rib. Considering to create a safety video.

Americas Cup 2 umpires, one driving and making calls, the other one is responsible for safety.

Umpire education component from this group.

8. IU Manuals

Match Race Manual Will be finalized in December

Team Racing Manual Printable and digital manual sailing.org/tools/documents needs updating to 2017-2020

Umpired Fleet Racing Manual/ Medal Racing Manual

Take out international from the manual => Umpire/ Fleet Racing/ Team Racing Manual

Printed and digital version published in February 2016

9. Calls and Rules

Many events make event calls and the working party has just gotten 3 this year from Match Racing Accept 3 MR submissions

Team Racing TR Call M12 Get policies right first. Then set the rules so that they reflect the policies.

Rapid Response process is really good. Address the sailors needs for clarity and consistency among umpires

52 10. Education and Development

Seminars and Clinics Antibes, FRA – October 2016 5 participants 3 instructors (Marianne, Gary, Philip, Maddie WS) high passing

2017 Instructors seminar 2017 Fleet Race Seminar, try to do two seminars • US League is increasing => US • Europe 2017 Team Race seminar?

IF there is a 3 days event vs a 4 day event the passing is much higher.

How to develop further IUs. You get the badge and then you’re on your own. Mentoring system. We have to do something to include the organizer. Arrive early, check, run a proper umpire meeting, learn during the day, debriefing (umpire and sailor). The umpires should arrive round 14.00 the day before. Create an environment where umpires meet and talk to improve. Let’s us have a rule discussion concerning the new rules. Have umpire clinics several before Roundtable discussions

11. Medal Racing When does Addendum Q apply? When does it take over? Can be changed through 86.2. Richard has done an explanation of one paper to kids one page.

12. Submissions

13. Events Appointments Margriet Pannevis • Umpires and officials think that the committee appoints people and that’s why they come and talk directly with the working party. • Proper Committee assesses and EAWP checks regulations and appoints. • Perhaps a need to change name of working party • Statistics Umpires => add third column, what is the population • Gender spread?

53 Race Officials Committee

Tuesday 8 November 2016, 9.30 - 18

Staff change at WS. Jon Napier doing another job at WS. Maddie works as 2.5 persons. Recruit temporarily and permanently

4. Strategy and development

Andres Perez IJSC • Covered with the number of IJ at the moment. • Underdeveloped areas developing national judges program • Recruiting IJ instructors at the moment • Identify and report future IJ material to Andres to give opportunities

Sally Burnett IUSC • Clear demand for umpiring fleet racing • Concentrated on Asia this year (Seminars Thailand and Japan) o Have gotten a boost in applications o Travel cards have been issued to get more experience for new striving • Sailing Worldcup • 2017 Fleet Racing seminar one in Europe and one in US • 2017 Now 8 instructors, looking to recruit 3 more

Nino Schmueli, IRSC • Spread legacy in south America • Go to Asia and Japan to build the race • Mentoring new people in their own country o Letting them do and providing feedback afterwards in the evening • Make a seminar to all race officers to continue development o Perhaps each continent have their own seminar first o Then a common seminar for all

Dimitris Dimou, IMSC • Aging community • Europe centric group • Problems in Australia • How identify and recruit o See people at events o Encourage to go to clinics and seminars o During § 2009 and 2010, 140 measures have been through the program o Focus has been on Asia o South America first IM is applying this year

54 • 2016 failed to process on how to do the list. All actions where listed in the minutes. 50% of people where doing the Olympics. • 2017 IM seminar i Denmark

Andres Perez – Many events with fast boats - Safety • Challenge the daily tasks on the water • Focus on safety • Talking about 30-40 knots in boats • Put in a part about safety into the manual • Good ribs • Use of lifejackets • Helmets • Headsets

Richard Slater – on safety, when umpiring fast boats • mind map, structure part of a manual o GC32, M32, AC, TP52, Extreme Sailing Series, foiling boats • Comment o Organisers of the fast boat events are already further ahead on safety and they are talking to each other o They can share their experience

Chris • GC32 • Talking with the umpires • Specific rules for the fast boat and try to harmonize them • Have manuals • Right PROs • Comment John Doerr o RRS 86.2 o Don’t wait for the new committee o Authorize a working party for high speed rules to get a high speed appendix • Comment Nino o Want to be part of this development o Race officials and race officers o Join the WP • Comment Sally o Make it across all committees o Going to the classes and get their input

Coaches Commission • Cameras? • Used it in Weymouth? • Judges have camera when give yellow flag?

Madeline Dunn Clothing partner Zhik, now a package

55 5. Education and Development

Training in assessment John Doerr • Bernard got ill John took over • Performance assessment and performance reports • Reference forms

Travel Grants Ross Wilsson • To apply, contact world sailing office • Done some events and now look to become international • An extra event to be able to apply • Mail maddie

Publications • Bring up manuals to reflect the new rules • Work in progress right now • Manuals are getting larger and larger are we getting it too difficult to digest • All sub committees shall finalize their manuals before the end of the year • Match Race Manual is already up-to-date • Drop International, so that it is for all race officials => World Sailing manual • Maddie will send guidelines of the format

Team Racing in Events Andres Perez • Case 78 and guide to identify • Comments o The person doing this is easy to get to o The person gaining from this is more difficult to get to § If you penalize the person doing it it will take care of the problem o Happened in several events o Prevention is better than cure o When you see it happening § Do you wait until the race is over or do you do something immediately o

6. Race Official Administration New regulation 31 • Will have a common section and take out all specific to all race officials like qualifications, competencies and process. • The level of detail will be harmonized by a working party to finalize the document (representants from all sub committees)

56 Thomas Chamera, Race Management and Organization • Mission, Vision • Strategic development areas o Publications, documents, library o Manuals shall be yearly up-dated • Applications and renewals o Procedures are renewed o Applicants are still late which causes difficulties • Global ambassadors o Africa – Nino Schmueli o Asia – Qu Chun o Oceania – • Webpage and newsletter o Current activities in race management communicated and overseen annually • Seminars och clinics o Successful instructor conference February 2016 o Material for instructors have been created • Key issues for the future o Teaching tools update on regular basis o Technology in starting and finishing procedures o Communication – newsletter o Linkage with coaches, sailors and other stakeholders o RM development and mentoring program

Sally Burnett, IUSC • Match Racing and Team Racing opptortunities has diminished • Sailing League has risen the demand for umpired Fleet Racing o Will arrange two seminars (Europe, USA) o Will recruit more instructors • Make Fleet Racing from an IU point of vue a career path • Good at manuals o Match Racing – Marianne Middelthon o Team Racing – Chris Atkins (new format) • We are bombarded by material • One new instructor o Now a structured way to train your instructors

Dimitris IMSC • Main target is to improve skills and knowledge of existing measurers • Then bring in new generation of measurers • Funding from Race Officials Committee to do clinics and seminars • Have done 20 seminars and 18 clinics during 8 years • Introduced a test 6 years ago • 75% of existing IM have done the test • Report forms o Since not mandatory, few are filling them

57 Andres Perez • Renewal test biggest challenge • Thank Stephen Wrigley • Test has been used now for 3 years • Fail rate less than 4% • Now judges updated and they have studied the rules for real • Retirements 16% because of the renewal test • Next year, text to the speech possibility • Manual, working on update • The format of manuals is old fashioned • Need to link the test, the events to renewal of license • Instructors: recruiting 2 more • Biggest challenge IJ grouping • Want to work together with the IUSC to write manual

John Doerr, Classifiers • All procedures in place and ready to appoint the first classifiers

Sally Burnett, Expression Judge • Concerning Kite and board

Richardo Technical Delegate • Prepared an exam • Next year, training program

Code of conduct • A couple of cases where a race official has publicly criticized another race official • Jon Napier has written to this race official saying it is not ok • The race official has pointed out that –“where is it said?” • An amendment has been made to emphasized that this is not acceptable

7. Event appointments

Margriet Pannevis Report Go to chairman of your relevant sub-committee. Get the names from the sub committees and then check that they correspond to regulations

Timetable for all appointments will be set that World Sailing is appointing to. Including the amount of officials, so that classes can plan ahead.

Payment to Race Officials Bill O’Hara A whole of events pay their officials World Sailing is not paying their officials Consider the payment of WS Race Officials at events that there is prize money. Would it be realistic to finish the report before 31.1.2017? Yes.

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8. Race Officials Performance and Feedback Grouping of Race Officials, IJ Grouping, Lynne Beale • Panel of 5 people for grouping o The panel has taken a very holistic vue on the grouping • Only purpose to • Judges provided 112 applications • Criteria’s where given to applicants at the moment of application • Identify Chief, Lead, Promising for Chief and Lead, Standard • Annually reviewed • One issue o The grouping should be public to all o The panel had another vue on this o The concern is the respect and integrity of the judges that do not apply o If choose to go public, then put names, purpose and criteria on same paper • Feedback o If people are going to get picked from a piece of paper then why could it not be public o 112, only 3 where not known to the panel, put on a list to appoint to events to get to know o Transparency and integrity § Don’t hide it! Grouping IRO, Nino • One year behind. Public next year • Course rep, technical delegate

Grouping Dimitris

Grouping Sally • Want to see how this new system works. Don’t want to go back to old umpire grouping system

Race official performance Done race official assessment at certain events • Do we want to continue on this • Comment o Now you have Chief and Leads criteria done o Follow up on this o Important to distingue between feedback and assessment § Development activity or assessment. Have to be clear which one it is

59 9. Reports

Sailing World Cup • Massive improvement from 2015 • Looking forward to the grouping Rule 42 has been a little bit out of the mind. Activate again. It should be a ROC working party not a RRS working party.

Rule 69 • Suggest the working party be maintained

Conflict of Interest , Peter Schrubb • MNA, Association relationship and race official • Working on register to have all conflict of interest logged in one place

Thomas Jörgensen => need to find the right direction, check with match racing committee. Extend To include people from match racing committee. Working party umpiring fleet racing. Match Racing Race Management and Organization Common section set up race management and organization Umpiring league sailing similar challenge

Use of footage from On Board Cameras

Judging of the Oceanic Racing Andres Perez • Manual updated David • have been formally introduced in Palma. • Some additional material coming. Increasing pressure on judge decision making on people

Marianne Davies Cost of officials at WS and high level events • Gathered race official cost and data • Reducing cost should not compromise quality and fairness of the event • Equipment and tools given shall have good standard • Next step o Look at the cost of event o What should the entry fee include

Introduced into Racing Rules of Sailing the Technical Committee • Event inspection/ measurement committee => technical committee • Technical committee has the same status as the race committee

60 10. IT Systems

Systems for RO support at events • The RO have been promised Video and Tracking before each Olympic. The promise has been withdrawn a couple of months before the start of the Olympics.

• Stephen Wrigley o At the Olympics OBS shared their space to use video monitoring with 5 screens. This to see what is possible.

• Patrick Bergmans o Tracking for RO with a feed to our own system o The data is not accurate o Position of boom not possible to determine o There is a 4 page document with recommendations

• Lance Berger o Graphic representation is not accurate § 2-3m accuracy and cost 10-20€ § 2-3cm accuracy and cost 2-3.000€ (AC) o Raw-data can be useful, accuracy of about 2-3m would be very useful together with everything else

• Jim Capron o TRO was not limited to the Olympics o Systems: Track Track, Yellow Brick …

Internet based application system for IU renewal • Madeline Dunn • The staff member left and the provider did not pick up • Gone back to the pdf-system • Now pick-up again the IT-system

11. Submissions

053-16 Regulation 31 - support • 31.8: Want WS to be able to go back to MNA and ask why the process is possibly taking so long • 31.12.(c) International Expressional Judges. Scoring competitors based on tricks in kite boarding and windsurfing. Kite boarding and windsurfing will belong to their class after this meeting.

054-16 - reject • this submission will try to solve what just was solved in submission 053-16 in 31.12.(c).

61 055-16 Conflicts of Interest - Support • somebody who has been appointed to the Olympics has then been found to have a Conflict of Interest • This submission will fix the problem beforehand

056-16 Withdrawn

057-16 Olympic Jury - Support • The EAWP together with the

058-16 Technical delegates - Support • Include Paraolympic

Submissions on RRS

12. Finance

13. Annual Report

14. Focus areas for next ROC

• insurance of race officials • reopening of video evidence

62 Racing Rules Committee

Wednesday 9 November 2016

5. The Case Book

Dick Rose • No cases approved based on the meeting in China • The working party are aligning the book to the new rules • New Case Book will be finalized early January 2017. Important to know because there are several countries translating it into their native language

082-16 RRS Case 10

087-16 new Case Conflict of interest provide clarification of RRS 63.4.b Comments • It may be possible to balance the conflict between two or more protest committee members • What does this mean? • Two parents on the committee • Balancing criticized. • Club level events. Rules are meant for all sailors. Not just Olympics. In many places you don’t find a protest committee elsewhere. This is about the small things. At some levels of event it is not practical to find suitable protest committee members who have no conflict of interest, yet the event still needs the service of a protest committee. • Put some examples what balancing means. Case goes as it stands and further clarification • Will be referred to the Q&A panel for clarification • Lance Burger South Africa Accept

088-16 To clarify when a case should be considered under rule 2 (Fair Sailing) or rule 69 (Misconduct) and what constitutes misconduct. • Intentionally breaking a rule or inciting others to break a rule • Intent • If it affects the competition then it is RRS 2. If not then RRS 69 • If you know you have broken a rule you shall take a penalty

089-16 To clarify when it is appropriate to send a report of a breach of rule 69 to an MNA or World Sailing. Either to the MNA or to World Sailing. Check RRS 69

63 090-16 New Case After a boat becomes obligated by rule 15 or rule 16.1 to give another boat room to keep clear, she complies with that requirement if she immediately acts to give that room

091-16 Situations when a boat is forced over the starting line by another boat that was breaking a rule of Part 2.

092-16 A boat that crosses the finishing line capsized and with no crew on board finishes, unless the crew returns on board, she continues to race and then finishes again. A a capsized boat in normal position = yes.

093-16 Withdrawn

6. The Call Books

MR Call Book has been updated and will be published next week. Three submissions rapid response call.

94 ok 95 ok 96

TR Call Book submissions 98 edit B in position 3 responds

Meeting Match Racing (Liz Baylis, Stratis Andreadis)

MRRSC Rankings out of regulation • Pros • Cons

Race Management and Organization Finalize Manual and Process Description Talk to Thomas Jörgensen about manual and process Test ground South Africa Include Tatiana Ermakova, Yana Dob …, Timo Mustakallio, Rolf Zachariassen

Women Match Racing Worlds Liz Baylis Chief suggestion Pro Suggestion Technical delegate suggestion Umpire suggestions

64 Meeting FarEast Yachts (Mats Runström) FarEast Boats 28 Women Match Racing in China Own boats Sell boats Swedish international managers Fleet of 6 boats in Stockholm • 6 new • 10 one year old Sailing Schools Use these boats at Women Worlds in Helsinki 2017 Borrow/ Rent/ Buy => transport Stockholm - Helsinfors - Stockholm NJK/ WS/ Wimra/ FarEast 28 Anna Holmdahl

Nordic Yachts AB Bullandö Marina 139 56 Värmdö Phone: + 46 (0)8 – 570 22550 Web: www.nordicyachts.se Email: [email protected] Contact: Mats Runström [email protected]

RRC Continues Paradigm Shift Team Race Call Book (on-line) What is the rule, what would be good for the

Team Racing Call Book Match Racing Call Book TR Match Racing

9. Re-openings and Finality of Decisions

In the RRS 2017-2020 there are some limitations regarding the time limit for protests, re-openings and redress. However, there are many examples that seem to have no time limit For example: • Observing a boat breaking a rule on a video or TV shown some weeks after the event • Observing an incident that has already been decided in a hearing, but video or TV show new evidence • Discovering that a boat was not in compliance with her class rules seeks after the event

65 Options • Do nothing – it is ok as it is • Ask RRC WP to add this item to their agenda • Set up a dedicated WP to address this issue

10. Special Rules

Approvals of classes to change rules during 2016 TP52, 2K Team Racing, RC44, J Class, Sailors League, America’s Cup • Requests for change come within days before the event is starting. Poorly formulated. • The format requirement has to be met • Even requests for events not yet named are issued. It is not allowed to change rules for unnamed events. That is stated in the regulations. • Create a clear process and format a standard package

RRS 86.2 Changes approved by World Sailing o For a specific international event o Clear necessity or pressing importance.

RRS 86.3 Changes approved by MNA • Any event • To develop or test proposed rules

The Special Rules Panel – options are: 1. Status Quo 2. Proactive in developing and testing rules. Event organizers are encouraged to come to the panel with problems with the hope that the panel can suggest rule changes to achieve the organizers desired outcome

Successful with Test Rules in Match Racing. Create a working party with Richard Slater and Bill O’Hara and identify what rules needs a tweak and simplification and list them.

Fleet Umpiring Neven Baran

Develop Addendum Q further

66 Q&A Panel Ana Sanchez del Campo Ferrer

• Q&A 97 • Submissions for new cases 14 • Submissions for rule changes based on Q&A 4 • E-mails circulated 2988

Definition Finish • You have to start before you sail the course. • You have to sail the course before you finish. • Race Committees shall record every time the boat crosses the line. Then state the last time a boat finishes.

12. Missing marks

Options: Redress for missing mark regardless of cause RRS 62 • Do nothing • Set up a WP to consider allowing redress for a missing mark regardless of cause

Obligations of boat when mark missing RRS 34 • Do nothing • Set up a WP to consider the issue

NOR and SI Appendix J1 and J2 shows many duplicate between NOR and SI

Experimental Slalom Rules

Submission 268-15??? Liz

Recommendations Financial issue, records on Dick Rose computer => Jon Napier

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Events Committee

Thursday 10 November 2016

3. Conflicts of interest

Takao Class, no change

5. Olympic Games 2016 Rio

Pablos report from RIO Make sure we act on the suggestions in the report

Technical delegates report Allister • 380 athletes • 66 nations • 10 Olympic champions • incredible conditions outside the Bay • Marina da Gloria updated.

Whole build up • London 2012 complete review and look of ways to introduce more new equipment and introduce more women. • Event and equipment decisions • IOC in early 2017 and final decision in July 2017 • Genders 57% men 43% women • Introduction on continental events. 84 MNAs in Santander • IOC and National OC • IOC qualification systems • After 2012 • Organizing committee Walter Boddener, o 60 ITO o 2 technical delgates o 20 International Race Officers o 28 international judges/ umpires o 9 international measures, • Juries Jan Stage, Peter Schrubb o Judges would need more access to TV and tracking o 109 cases many reopening’s • Water quality, did not have problems, • OBS good production, but no footage from outside the bay where there where fantastic conditions. No control on how it is distributed. Very important to have best commentators. No access to the footage. IOC should give daily feed to WS. • Omega time

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Conclusions Rio 2016 huge success (worried water quality, wind) must work together with OBS Have a more enhanced role in the delivery of the games. Go closer to decision making

Comments Medical commission report Media report from IOC published in January IOC questionnaire: ask IOC if it can be distributed to MNAs

Comments • Next host nation, Japan o Want to have more people to watch the organizing. o To be able to observe more • Create a manual which will be developed from Olympic to Olympic • Two test events before where good • Exclusion zone in Rio not good between sailors and spectators • Nacra spinnakers where bad • Check how we give info to team leaders and MNAs. o A lot of these notices where late • 2012, 2016 happened some things, which should not happen in 2020. Sailors and coaches • Functional areas 50 pieces (transport, meals, security, venue planning, important that WS sits at the table • Totally involved in the design, many decisions • OBS MNAs don’t have sailors on all events. o Does not help if we don’t have any sailors sailing. o Video and pics + comments in native language is important

Create a manual focusing on getting things working and right

Comments Chris Atkins Big slow spectator boat Repeat customers NOIC Other sports, Series scoring, every day matters

Create a working party Fiona, Nadine, Jan work on manual

69 6. 2018 World Sailing Championship Aarhus 31.7-12.8.2018

Preparation is on the way • Test Event 7-13.8.2017 in Aarhus • Clinics 6 planned through 2017-2018

Final qualification system Corinne • Event quotas • Athlete will submit their application on-line. • The organizer checks with the MNA if they approve • There is no limit to countries. They can enter more sailors trying to get the places to their best sailors. • Mandatory to share coach boats IODA

038-16 Submission Ensure the Entry Quota for the 2018 Sailing World Championships

7. 2020 Olympic Games

Chris Atkins VP letter to MNAs on the Olympics

Chris Atkins Background and content of the letter to MNAs • Continuity and early decision making • No change in 2020 • Modify the process for 2024 • Limit the quantity of change that can be done • IOC in 2016 announced an agenda 2020 in that announcement the IOC confirmed that small number of events that had been in 2016 will not be in the Olympics in 2020 o IOC will choose from a list of events provided by WS o WS goes with the list to IOC and IOC picks what to delete § Gender equity will be stressed o The risk from sailings point of view if Tokyo will be gender equal. § We can only get there by deleting one event. § Board recommended a submission that get one extra option. • 6 guiding principals listed in the agenda o board recommends the there would be one extra option o seek to meet the aims of IOC agenda 2020 o minimize disruption o 10 events o continue to work on gender equality o showcase an additional sailing event

70 • Input to the IOC and all national committees o the planning cycle is more than 4 years budgeting at an IOC is longer o An IOC change 3 years before is not reasonable o We are in a equipment sport o We do our first Olympic qualifier in 2018 when we give our IOC clarifies a sport could choose at gender equity at a sport level, not at an event level and get event level in 2024 • Opens up the option to meet gender equity on a sport level • Events basis in 2024 that is a better than last night communication • Style of the letter. o The regulation we have gives the president and only the president to give an alternative. This is a commitment that is made on a presidential level. • Problem with letter. o June council decision is now in the regulations. This issue can come up. The regulations are now different from this letter. • 11th medal could go to kite boarding or have a showcase event at the Olympics

2020 Enoshima 24.7-9.8.2020 Enoshima 70 km from Tokyo. The port of Shonan 1964 built for the Olympics

Sailing village Deep water and fishing activities 28th of February 2017. WS recommendations to the IOC. IOC makes final decision July 2017

OBS television

Qualification system • Aarhus 40% • Class world champinships • Continental qvualifications events • South America, north America, Europe, oceania, Africa, asia

Olympic qualifiers

Agenda 2020 • Regulations and a letter • Number of events and showcase events • Gender equity • IOC event report

PWC lack a lot of data in the office

71 Format of Olympics 2020 Thomas Chamera • Want format to be easy to understand. • The winner of the last race is the winner of the event. • Human factor (race management and umpiring) eliminated as far as possible.

Event grouping • Tactical boats: 470, Laser, , • Faster boats: Boards, Skiffs, Multihulls Faster boats 1. Qualifying 16 races, 4 per day, Final 1 race or 2. Qualifying 12 races, 4 per day, semi Finals 4 races, one per day (top 8), Final 1 race (top 4) Tactical boats 1. Qualifying 12 races, 3 per day, Final 1 race or 2. Qualifying 9 races, 3 per day. Semi-finals 4, 1 per day. Final 1 race

Times Faster • Qualifying 20-25 min • Final race 10-15 min

Tactical boats • Qualifying 30-35 min • Final race 10-15 min

Rule 42, protests and redress • Consistency in RRS 42 • Direct judging preferably by officials involved with the classes • No redress other than helping those in danger

Comments • A budget must be linked to this proposal • Who are we trying to entertain? • IOC list • More excitement every day • Archery thousands of arrows shoot. Nowadays 10 arrow count • The excitement needs to be there every day.

034-16 To differentiate our sport, to highlight the best features of each particular Class, to increase the appeal of Olympic sailing to fans of sailing and sport in general by holding the final day of the 2020 Olympic regatta in formats that suit the Class, increase intensity, shrink the field of play, and bring fans closer to the action. Defer to WP

72 035-16 To showcase our sport to the world audience with simple to understand “the winner gets a Gold scenario final race”. Sailing competition is a unique sport and it will be unfair to decide a real winner with just one short final race without carried over points, which will lose all the beauty/excitement of a week-long sailing championship. Defer to WP

010-16 Constitution Committee has also deferred this submission. Defer

014-16 The selection of Events and Equipment for the Olympic Sailing Competition to be made by the World Sailing General Assembly.

037-16 To simplify the Olympic presentation and move towards gender equity by equalizing the number of entries in each double handed class.

10. Youth World Championship

15-18 Buenos Aires

Team Racing as Sailing’s Show Case Event, Cory and Alfredo Ricci • Team Racing Sub-Committee participation drops if the MNA has no program. o Boats 4&4, 3&3, 2&2 • Future event 2&2 demonstration during Youth World Championship. o First world championship in 2018.

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