IOMICA Forum

Ian
Bugger!
Wire cutters going to work - will be legal by Saturday

Ian

CHECKSTAYS (Whiskers, Lower lowers) Stays connected to the mast below the bottom mast band, to control the lowest portion of the mast.

Do you mean from below the spreaders?? As I have just put 3 new rigs together I am of the assumption that I can have stays (checkstays?) from just below the ...

Here's a spanner in the works - can not the person use different coloured sail clothy between panels. i.e top panel white, second dark blue, 3rd white, bottom dark blue as long as the material complies with G.3.1 (a) (1)

On top of this the 3 sail stripes can also be used.

Thanks for prompt replies all

Will put a dot on deck behind mast as per photos.

Xmas Cheers and beers to all from downunder

A small confusing item?
:cry: I have just finished putting my IOM together, but before submitting for measurement where do I put the deck limit mark as I can find no clear explaantion of where it goes other than in ule D.1.5 "on the centreplane of the hull near to the mast positon"
As I have ...

Good question!
Having just sailed in our EC12 nationals last week in New Zealand this could of caused a couple of changes at the top of the leaderboard. Where discards come into play I have known skippers to "throw" a race or 2 to get a larger discard and therefore "lower" their overall total, by ...