9-10m cruiser racing - buoyancy rule

[mogmog2]

I saw a notification for the Royal Escape race today and wondered if I fancied having a go next year.

Reading the Notice of Race we'd need to meet Category 3 requirements:

ORS Section 3.13
Watertight Bulkheads 3.13.1 Either a watertight “crash” bulkhead within 15% of LH from the bow and abaft the forward end of LWL, or permanently installed closed-cell foam buoyancy effectively filling the forward 30% LH of the hull. How do cruiser-racers achieve this? eg a Westerly Fulmar participated in the Fastnet race last year & there's a Contessa 32 in the Royal Escape race for this year. Are such boats typically given over to racing, shutting off chunks of their interior etc, rather than being "dual purpose" for cruising as well?

How does anyone else do it, or maybe they don't (or can't and that's why the RTIR is so popular)?
Thanks

 

[Martin_J]

If you look at the relevance for section 3.13, on the left hand side, you will see that it refers to the following..

Mo0,Mu0,1,2,3,4

That would imply to me that its only relevant to monohulls in Cat 0 races... and multihulls in all categories of race.

It might be easiest to download the Cat3 summary for monohulls.

Then you will only see the rules that are relevant to that category of race for you.

 

[Martin_J]

When to get down to section 14 for example, you will see it applies to **

This is detailed on the front page as relevant for all categories (except 5).

 

[mogmog2]

If you look at the relevance for section 3.13, on the left hand side, you will see that it refers to the following..

Mo0,Mu0,1,2,3,4

That would imply to me that its only relevant to monohulls in Cat 0 races... and multihulls in all categories of race.

It might be easiest to download the Cat3 summary for monohulls.

Then you will only see the rules that are relevant to that category of race for you.

Thanks, I wasn't entirely sure how to interpret those codes.

 

[mogmog2]

Thanks Martin. Downloaded the cat 3 and it's not a requirement. Everything else in there is more manageable.